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• Jail unrest feared over smoking ban plans

  18-07-2015 21:14
  
  Court ruling that Parc prison must go smoke-free triggers concern about reaction from inmates, 80% of whom smokeThe Ministry of Justice is drawing up plans for a smoking ban in several jails amid fears that legal actions forcing all to go smoke-free simultaneously would trigger unrest at a time when tensions in the prison estate are high.Successive prison ministers have prevaricated on introducing a ban, due to concerns about the reaction from the four out of five prisoners who smoke. However, t
  
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• Teen son of persecuted Chinese lawyer barred from travel - Yahoo News UK - Yahoo News UK

  18-07-2015 11:37
  
  Teen son of persecuted Chinese lawyer barred from travel - Yahoo News UK
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  BEIJING (AP) — The 16-year-old son of a Chinese couple targeted by authorities in a crackdown on rights lawyers has been barred from traveling to Australia to attend high school and placed under police surveillance, a family friend said Saturday.en meer »
  
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• Large-scale online pirates to face up to 10 years’ jail under ministers’ proposals

  18-07-2015 01:01
  
  Consultation calls for maximum sentence to be vastly increased so penalties for online offences tally with those for copyright infringement of physical goodsCommercial infringement of copyright online should in future be punishable by up to 10 years in prison, ministers are proposing.A consultation launched by the Intellectual Property Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is calling for the present maximum sentence of two years to be significantly increased. Related: Ste
  
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