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...members of Saudi Arabia's religious police, a 10,000-strong force called the Commission for the Protection of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice. Back at the commission's local headquarters, events took a tragic turn: al-Huraisi died in custody, after allegedly being beaten. According to family lawyer Maher Al-Hamizi, the autopsy report said his skull was split open and an eye dislodged from its socket. Speaking to Time, the dead man's father, Mohammed al-Huraisi, a 73-year-old retired messenger, called for justice for the three commission members who he claims murdered...
...most acclaimed actresses have taken the leads in a pair of edgy cable dramas and matched TV's bad boys vice for vice and flaw for flaw. In FX's engrossing legal chiller Damages (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Glenn Close plays Patty Hewes, a committed and vicious trial lawyer who is driven to win cases against the powerful but resorts to bullying and deception--and other, possibly bloodier, means--to do it. Litigating against a CEO (Ted Danson) in a pump-and-dump stock scandal, she hires--or exploits?--a young lawyer (Rose Byrne) with a personal connection...
David Stern spoke with the deep remorse of someone who had unwittingly committed vehicular homicide. "This is the most serious situation and worst situation that I have ever experienced either as a fan of the NBA, a lawyer for the NBA or commissioner of the NBA," the league's boss said Tuesday at a New York press conference. "We take our obligation to our fans in this situation very, very seriously...
...advocacy group for rape victims. "She supports the protestors and is glad they are there and signed the online petition, but that's it," said Murphy in an e-mail. But since Bowen has decided to take her language-ban appeal to the federal district court, she and her lawyer have begun soliciting support from PAVE and other national advocacy groups...
...Lawyers across Pakistan burst into tears and cries of jubilation today, as Pakistan's Supreme Court restored the country's Chief Justice, Muhamed Iftikhar Chaudhry, whose sacking by embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last March sparked national protests. "They have given new life to the nation. For the first time in [my] life I have saluted the judges," says Supreme Court lawyer and activist Ali Ahmed Kurd, a Chaudhry supporter. "It proved that Pakistan has not yet gone dry." What it augurs for Pakistan's President may be something else...