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• Police fear missing family of 'former al-Muhajiroun member' heading to Syria

  19-04-2015 19:27
  
  Appeal for information about Slough family after Asif Malik and wife Sara Kiran go missing and are last seen boarding ferry to France with four young childrenPolice are increasingly concerned for a family of six, including four young children, who have gone missing and may be heading to Syria.Asif Malik, 31, and his partner Sara Kiran, 29, left their family home in Slough, Berkshire, with their children on Tuesday, 7 April without informing their family and friends, or mentioning any holiday or
  
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• In the face of Islamic State’s atrocities, global inaction is not an option | Philippe Sands

  19-04-2015 16:18
  
  The ICC may have no jurisdiction in Iraq and Syria, but a failure to investigate would be tantamount to admitting that the Nuremberg principles have reached their practical limitEight mass graves reportedly found in the Iraqi city of Tikrit earlier this month are believed to hold some of the bodies of 1,700 Shia military cadets who were rounded up by Islamic State in June 2014 and paraded through the streets, before disappearing.These graves, and surely others in and around the city, will be sub
  
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• Theresa May admits justice system fails families over deaths in police custody

  19-04-2015 15:29
  
  In letter to the families of Sean Rigg and Olaseni Lewis, the home secretary says she wants to solve significant problems faced by those fighting for justiceThe criminal justice system makes is too hard for families whose loved ones have died in police custody to get answers, according to a candid letter written by the home secretary to two families affected by such deaths.Theresa May wrote that she wanted to solve significant problems for those fighting for justice following the deaths of relat
  
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• Living on death row in Tennessee: 'The rollercoaster is exhausting'

  19-04-2015 13:00
  
  Thirty-three inmates are volleyed between life and death as the state grapples with lawsuits on the constitutionality of legal injection and the electric chairDonnie Johnson has spent nearly half of his life waiting to die. In 1985, the Memphis camping equipment center staffer was found guilty of suffocating his wife, Connie, with a plastic garbage bag. Since his conviction, he’s maintained his innocence; insisting that a work‐release inmate murdered his wife, and that he only helped dispose
  
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• Revenge porn law 'will not help victims,' say campaigners - The Independent

  19-04-2015 01:04
  
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  Revenge porn law 'will not help victims,' say campaigners
  The Independent
  A law to tackle “revenge porn” which came into force last week is too weak and runs the risk of allowing perpetrators to continue to get away with the crime, experts have warned. Legislation making the malicious dissemination of explicit images ...
  
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• The Observer’s view on the Lord Janner case and the DPP’s Alison Saunders | Observer editorial

  19-04-2015 01:04
  
  Now journalists in the dock are trusted more than CPS prosecutorsThe mood music here is frankly unnerving, Schubert and Stockhausen mixed. On the one hand, Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, decides that Lord Janner is too lost in dementia to be brought to trial. His alleged victims, a legion of young boys assembled over decades, vigorously disagree. So, with unusual vehemence, do the Leicestershire police, which have been investigating the former Labour MP for years. So does
  
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• TV 'exposure' of Scientology halted by UK libel law split - The Guardian

  19-04-2015 00:50
  
  The Guardian
  TV 'exposure' of Scientology halted by UK libel law split
  The Guardian
  Tom Cruise, pictured after delivering a speech at the opening of a Scientology church. Photograph: Paul Hanna/Reuters. Edward Helmore in New York. Saturday 18 April 2015 18.50 EDT Last modified on Saturday 18 April 2015 19.07 EDT. Share on ...en meer »
  
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