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Tunisia's largest trading partner, France, broke years of silence over the country's human-rights record when President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Tunis last July. He told Ben Ali he was concerned about the arrest of a prominent lawyer, Mohammed Abbou, on what some regarded as dubious charges of assaulting a colleague and defaming the judiciary. Abbou was freed shortly after, ending two years in jail. In late October, the European Parliament's human-rights committee head, Hélène Flautre, visited Chebbi in the fourth week of his hunger strike, and told reporters that Tunisia's policies...
...Halloween festivities involved a whole lot more than knucking and bucking, as it kicked off mid-week with one Lampenior doubling as a vigilante in his first ever citizen’s arrest, complete with GPS tracking and car trailing. Apparently all you need to catch criminals is a quick wit and nothing else to do...More hell on wheels is being brought by Cabot’s most bad-ass senior, who has been using his mother’s fiery red motorized scooter to get to his LSAT classes. He’d offer you a ride...
...officers observed an individual blocking the flow of traffic on a one-way, single-lane street on Radcliffe Campus Drive. They asked the driver to move, which the driver refused to do. Officers then asked for identification, which the driver also refused. Abdirahman Dualle, 23, of Roxbury, Mass., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.October 122:28 p.m.—Officers observed an individual parking his or her bicycle in front of the handicap entrance to the Holyoke Center. When approached by the officers, the person became agitated and moved the two-wheeler aggressively. The officers asked the individual...
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the six officials of a French non-governmental organization charged with attempted kidnapping in Chad, following their Oct. 25 arrest while trying to airlift 103 children they claimed were Darfur orphans. A total of 16 European nationals will stand trial for involvement in a case that Chadian authorities initially condemned as an illegal money-for-adoption scheme praying on child refugees from war-torn Darfur. If convicted, the six French child aid workers could face 20 years of hard labor in the bizarre affair - which has created an atmosphere...
...Arroyo administration spokesman yesterday noted that Estrada, 70, has already been under house arrest for more than six years since being overthrown in the mass protests movement dubbed People Power II. Estrada had also asked to spend time with his gravely ill mother. And, the spokesman noted, a court decision requiring Estrada to forfeit his ill-gotten gains remains in effect...