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Detained Iran protesters ‘flogged, sexually abused and electrocuted’
September 10, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Iranian security forces committed a “catalogue of shocking human rights violations” against those detained in a crackdown on nationwide protests last November, Amnesty International says. Dozens of men and women told the human rights group they were beaten, flogged, given electric shocks, or sexually abused to extract bogus confessions. More than 7,000 people – including […]
Read More...US citizen indicted for child sex after returning from Laos
September 10, 2020 · By James Lovelock, Vientiane for gulfnews.com
US citizen indicted for child sex after returning from Laos Michael Sebastian, a 52-year-old American, seemed like a decent man, one of those expats living in Laos who take it upon themselves to help disadvantaged local youngsters. Sebastian, who first landed in Laos as a tourist in 2008 by his own account, began teaching English […]
Read More...The horrific culture of enforced disappearances
September 8, 2020 · By Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
The horrific culture of enforced disappearances “Please deliver the dead body to this address — 10/E/Modhubag (Dhaka). The mother is waiting.” The gruesome message was written on the wall of a building in the central part of Bangladesh’s capital. It was a heartbreaking appeal from a mother to get back her son dead or alive […]
Read More...Catholic altar girl in hiding in Pakistan after escaping abductor
September 8, 2020 · By Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore for www.ucanews.com
Maira Shahbaz was raped, blackmailed and forced into sex work after being made to convert to Islam Catholic altar girl in hiding in Pakistan after escaping abductor A teenage Catholic altar girl is living in hiding in Pakistan with her mother and three siblings after escaping from her Muslim abductor who forced her to change […]
Read More...Marcus Rashford brings food brand giants together to tackle child food poverty
September 4, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Footballer Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce with some of the UK’s biggest food brands to try to help reduce child food poverty. The 22-year-old Manchester United forward successfully campaigned to extend free school meals this summer. He has written to MPs, outlining the help he feels some families still need. They include expanding the numbers […]
Read More...Pakistani Columbans promote podcast for Season of Creation
September 4, 2020 · By Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore for www.ucanews.com
Pakistani Columbans promote podcast for Season of Creation Columbans are promoting a podcast series on biodiversity to mark the Season of Creation in Pakistan next month. “Jubilee for the Earth – A Podcast on Biodiversity and our Sacred Story” is slated to run for six episodes of about 15 minutes each, in both audio and […]
Read More...A betrayal of Hong Kong’s brave Catholics
September 4, 2020 · By Benedict Rogers for www.ucanews.com
Diocese’s banning of a prayer is a significant setback for religious freedom in the Chinese territory A betrayal of Hong Kong’s brave Catholics When I was exploring the Catholic faith eight or nine years ago, in preparation for being received into the Church in Myanmar, I read the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church. My […]
Read More...France and Germany report surge in Covid-19 cases
September 4, 2020 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
France and Germany report surge in Covid-19 cases German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that coping with the coronavirus will become more challenging in the coming autumn and winter months. She agreed a wave of new measures with the leaders of Germany’s 16 federal states yesterday designed to combat rising case numbers in Germany blamed […]
Read More...Haulier pleads guilty to manslaughter of migrants found in container
September 3, 2020 · By RTE News for www.rte.ie
Haulier pleads guilty to manslaughter of migrants found in container Haulier Ronan Hughes, 40, of Co Armagh, has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the manslaughter of 39 people who were found dead in a container in Essex last October. The bodies of the Vietnamese migrants were discovered in a refrigerated trailer parked on an […]
Read More...Four charged in Handsworth human trafficking inquiry
September 3, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Four charged in Handsworth human trafficking inquiry Four people have been charged in connection with a police inquiry into human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Birmingham. Officers on Sunday found three Eastern European women, aged between 18 and 25, at a house in the Handsworth area of the city. They are believed to be trafficking […]
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