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• MPs plan US lobby to free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo | Letters

  05-04-2015 20:46
  
  The campaign to free British resident Shaker Aamer from detention in Guantánamo and return him to his family in London has now reached a crucial stage. He has been held, often in solitary confinement, without charge or trial, for 13 years. There is no evidence against him and despite twice being cleared for release by the US authorities, Shaker remains in detention with all his human rights denied. He now has serious health problems so that his release becomes ever more urgent. A delegati
  
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• Legal battle over Jay Z's sampling on Big Pimpin' comes to head after eight years

  05-04-2015 19:58
  
  Descendent of Egyptian songwriter Baligh Hamdy claim rapper and producer Timbaland sampled the 1960 song Khosara Khosara without proper licencesPlay a few seconds of the backing track for Big Pimpin’, and it might evoke scenes from the accompanying music video, of a younger Jay Z puffing a cigar, posing on a yacht flanked by bikini-clad women.For Egyptians, however, and especially those of a certain age, the same few notes might conjure a different image, of Abdel Halim Hafez, the pouting boyi
  
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• Santorum cites Westboro Baptist Church in debate over Indiana law

  05-04-2015 18:39
  
  Former presidential candidate defends religious freedom act with hypothetical premise: should a gay sign maker be required to print offensive material? Related: Welcome to Eureka Springs, Arkansas: a 'desirable homosexual destination' The former and possibly future Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday offered a provocative analogy in defense of a controversial Indiana law that opponents say opened the way for discrimination by businesses against gay and lesbian customers and
  
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• New law helps UK police tackle identity crime - SecuringIndustry.com

  05-04-2015 17:43
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  New law helps UK police tackle identity crime
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  UK police New legislation that will boost powers to tackle counterfeit documents has been adopted in the UK. The Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Act 2015 was passed by Royal Assent on March 26 and creates an offence to supply ...
  
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• Welcome to Eureka Springs, Arkansas: a 'desirable homosexual destination'

  05-04-2015 17:10
  
  Amidst national controversy over laws that outlaw or encourage discrimination, one small southern town is seen by all sides as a haven for LGBT toleration Related: Arkansas and Indiana approve redrafted religious freedom bills after backlash The outskirts offer no hint that this is one of the most gay-friendly small towns in America. “End Times are here. Where will you spend eternity?” asks a roadside sign, just before a right turn that leads to a Christian outlet store and a 67ft statue of
  
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• Senior Muslim lawyer says British teenagers see Isis as 'pop idols'

  05-04-2015 16:14
  
  Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted the Rochdale paedophiles, says the grooming technique of terrorists and child-abusers is the sameHundreds of British teenagers are in danger of being radicalised by Islamic State (Isis) because they see the terrorists as “pop idols”, the country’s leading Muslim prosecutor has said.
  Nazir Afzal believes that recent departures to Syria show that “many more children” are at risk of what he terms “jihadimania” than was previously thought. Continue reading..
  
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• Black woman's 'lynching' charge: an unsettling tactic to punish activism?

  05-04-2015 14:00
  
  California law was passed in 1933 to prevent mobs from taking people from police custody but case of Maile Hampton and others suggest harsher attitudes toward those who speak up in the wake of Occupy and police brutality protestsMaile Hampton, the African American activist who was arrested for “lynching” after trying to pull a fellow protester away from police during a January rally against law enforcement brutality in Sacramento, has a large black butterfly tattooed across her neck.Below it
  
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• One of Garissa attackers 'identified as Kenyan law graduate' - Yahoo News UK

  05-04-2015 13:38
  
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  One of Garissa attackers 'identified as Kenyan law graduate'
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  Authorities in Kenya said Sunday they have identified one of the four dead Shebab gunmen who massacred nearly 150 people at Garissa University as an ethnic-Somali Kenyan national and law graduate. Interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka named ...en meer »
  
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• Lord Prescott defends Prince Charles over 'black spider' memos

  05-04-2015 11:40
  
  Labour peer says he cannot see a problem with the heir to throne writing to government ministers, adding that the prince has ‘a lot to offer country’Lord Prescott has gone public for the first time about letters he received while in government from Prince Charles, defending the future monarch’s right to “write as many damn letters as he likes”.The former deputy prime minister, 76, said he cannot see a problem with Charles writing to government ministers, adding that the prince has “a
  
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