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...March 19?one year to the day after Sun was killed?authorities raided the Guangzhou home of Daily editor Cheng Yizhong, confiscating books, magazines and computer documents and taking him into custody. Last week, two senior staff members of the paper were sentenced to hefty jail terms on charges of corruption. (The prosecution said the two had embezzled company money. Their defense attorney asserts that the payments were standard performance-based bonuses.) In an open letter to authorities last week, Chen Feng, the Daily reporter who broke the Sun Zhigang story, wrote that such a crackdown, if politically inspired, could...
...death penalty was reinstated in '88. His lawyer claims that Massino isn't sweating it: "He understands that he's accused of a crime that could result in the death penalty. But you wouldn't know that by talking to him. He is very charming. I go to the jail to be cheered...
...visits to his old neighborhood in Tangiers. There he may have heard the preachings of Sheik Mohammed Fizazi, the spiritual leader of Salafia Jihadia, a group of Moroccan radicals said by some investigators to have ties to al-Qaeda. In August 2003 Fizazi was sentenced to 30 years in jail for inspiring the terrorists who bombed five sites in Casablanca, including a Spanish club, in May 2003. Zougam's name surfaced during the investigation of those attacks: at one point, he shared an apartment in Madrid with Abdelaziz Benyaich, one of those arrested for his alleged connection with the bombings...
Martha Stewart is not even in jail, and everyone is looking to replace her. NBC's Today show has opened up the contest to anyone who sends in a 1-min. tape of her (or his) domestic skills. Callers vote; the winner gets a segment on the show...
Although Chen will not serve any jail time for the offense, the Cambridge Licensing Commission decided two weeks ago to suspend his liquor license for 12 days...