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While cases of death at the hands of overseas employers are relatively rare, Normawati says she has seen countless pregnant Indonesians coming through the gates of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport after working abroad. She says the most disturbing of experiences can be heard again and again from the lips of different women: "The boss tells the woman, 'You must be with me.' Then rape...
Even non-soccer fans were shocked by the sudden, tragic death of Robert Enke, the goalkeeper for Germany's national team, who committed suicide by leaping in front of an express train near the city of Hannover on Tuesday night. The nation practically came to a standstill on Wednesday - German TV carried nonstop coverage of Enke's death, and hundreds of fans converged on the soccer stadium in Hannover to sign a condolence book and light candles and place flowers at the gates...
...Although Enke kept his depression a secret, Germany did get glimpses of an earlier tragedy that enveloped the goalkeeper's family. Three years ago, the couple's 2-year-old biological daughter, Lara, died of a rare heart condition. "I thought the death of Lara brought us closer together. We both thought we could achieve everything," Teresa Enke said, fighting back tears. She said that although her husband had been receiving treatment for his depression since 2003, he found solace in soccer. "Football was everything, it was his life," she said. But in an ironic way, it may have been...
...February, after 24-year-old Li Qiaoming was beaten to death by jail inmates in the southern province of Yunnan, officials said his killing was sparked by a game of hide-and-seek. The dubiousness of that explanation prompted an online outcry from concerned citizens and promises from Beijing of a nationwide review...
...painful irony of the black jails is that they sprang up after an earlier effort by Beijing to reform the national detention system. In 2003 a migrant worker in Guangzhou named Sun Zhigang was beaten to death while in police custody. Sun, who had been stopped for not carrying his temporary-residence certificate, was detained under a system known as "custody and repatriation." That system, a series of detention centers as well as the legal framework to hold people on administrative charges, was used to round up vagrants, beggars and petitioners...