Fallen pop star Boy George has reportedly turned to a strict diet of uncooked food to shed weight he gained as he served his sentence in jail.
The former Culture Club frontman, real name George O”Dowd, was also said to have resorted to a gruelling exercise routine to get back in shape.
“He’’s on a raw food [...]
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Boy George turns to raw diet to shed ‘jail weight’
September 8th, 2009 |
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Journalists in jail: The price of truth
September 3rd, 2009 |
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For reporters, a moment of fear
SRI LANKA was always a hard place for hacks; but by any standards, 20 years’ jail is a harsh penalty for a newsman doing his job. That term was meted out this week to J.S. Tissainayagam on terrorism charges, after he criticised the army’s treatment of Tamil civilians. The government says he stoked ethnic discord with false reports; human-rights groups say the state is cracking down harder in an already dire environment. Some 14 journalists have been killed in Sri Lanka since 2006.
All in all, this is proving a bad year for journalists. More are in jail than at any time since the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based advocacy group, began keeping records. Of the 174 held, some may go free soon; but as a crackdown in Iran demonstrates, there is also a risk that more will join them. …
Belgian jailbreak convicts caught
August 9th, 2009 |
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The last of three men who escaped from a Belgian jail on board a hijacked helicopter has been recaptured in Morocco, its official news agency says.
Ashraf Sekkaki, 25, was arrested in the al-Hoceima area, the MAP agency said, three days after fellow escapee Mohamed Johri was caught, also in Morocco.
The third convict was captured on 3 August in Belgium’s capital, Brussels.
The three men, who all hold Moroccan nationality, had escaped from a jail near the city of Bruges on 23 July.
They made their break in a helicopter that had been hijacked by their accomplices. It was later found abandoned by a main road.
Sekkaki, a bank robber described by Interpol as one of Belgium’s most dangerous criminals, had previously escaped from another jail in 2003 and spent five months on the run.
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Madhur Bhandarkar’s upcoming film’Jail’
July 29th, 2009 |
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Percept Picture Company and Madhur Bhandarkar have been known for their realistic and hard hitting movies like ‘Page 3’, ‘Corporate’, and ‘Traffic Signal’. Now, they come together once again for another hard hitting yet sensitive Story of an ordinary man in their approaching ‘Jail’ which stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mugdha Godse, Manoj Bajpayee in the [...]
Russian mafia boss Yaponchik shot
July 28th, 2009 |
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Doctors are attempting to save the life of the notorious Russian mafia boss known as Yaponchik, after he was shot leaving a Moscow restaurant.
Vyacheslav Ivankov, who served time in Soviet and US prisons, was shot three times in the stomach and seriously injured, investigators said.
A sniper rifle was found abandoned in a vehicle parked nearby.
Mr Ivankov, nearly 70, made headlines four years ago when a Moscow court acquitted him of a multiple shooting.
He had been charged with murdering two Turkish nationals and injuring a third in a Moscow restaurant in 1992.
He was shot around 1920 (1520 GMT) on Tuesday as he left a restaurant on Khoroshevskoye Road, said Anatoly Bagmet of the Moscow prosecutor’s office.
The man dubbed Yaponchik (in English: "the little Japanese") served nearly 10 years in a US jail for extortion and a fake marriage before being extradited to Russia to face trial for the Turkish shooting.
In Soviet times, he spent 10 years in jail for gangsterism. </p
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Amy Winehouse funded ex hubby’s drug habit in jail
July 28th, 2009 |
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Amy Winehouse used to help her former husband Blake Fielder-Civil get drugs while he served his sentence in prison, the jailbird has revealed.
Fielder-Civil, who was sentenced to 27 months in jail for assaulting a pub landlord in 2007, said the singer helped fund his drug habit while he was behind bars.
“Whenever I needed heroin I [...]
Eric Dezenhall: Michael Vick in the Theater of Redemption
July 25th, 2009 |
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Vick’s comeback will be tied to three variables: His athletic skill, his ability to keep his nose clean, and the passage of time, which tends to be surprisingly merciful.
Belgian convicts break out by air
July 24th, 2009 |
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Three inmates have escaped from a Belgian jail in a dramatic jailbreak on board a hijacked helicopter.
They include bank robber Ashraf Sekkaki who escaped from another prison only five years ago, reports say.
Officials say the helicopter flew into the jail near Bruges, picked up the men and dropped them 20km (12 miles) away near a major road.
They were last seen heading towards the coast in a stolen black Mercedes, after robbing a petrol station.
Sekkaki, 26, has been described as one of the country’s most dangerous criminals.
He is reported to have more than 16 convictions, including kidnapping.
Belga news agency quoted a spokesman as saying that one of the men who flew the helicopter into the jail had been left behind.
Helicopters have been used in a number of daring jail break-outs in the past.
In 2007, a Belgian Nordin Benallal got away from a jail outside Brussels after armed men flew in.
French criminals have also used the technique on at least four occasions, and Greek prisons have also fallen victim. </p
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Harry Potter actor escapes jail term for growing cannabis in bedroom
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Harry Potter actor Jamie Waylett has escaped jail term for growing cannabis in his bedroom.
City of Westminster Magistrates Court has sentenced him to 120 hours of unpaid community work, reports the Daily Express.
Waylett, who plays Hogwarts school bully Vincent Crabbe, was arrested under anti-terror laws after he took a photo of a police patrol near [...]
“Madoff” Bill Would Charge Rich Criminals For Jail
July 21st, 2009 |
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For anyone who believes crime doesn’t pay, tell that to the New York state legislator who introduced a “Madoff” bill on Monday. Rich New Yorkers convicted of crimes would be forced — if his bill becomes law — to pay the state and federal gov…
Fujimori convicted of corruption
July 20th, 2009 |
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The former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, has been given a seven-and-a-half-year jail term for corruption.
The 70-year-old was convicted by Peru’s Supreme Court of giving $15m (£9.3m) in state funds to his spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos.
Fujimori admitted making the payment, but said he later repaid the money.
The sentence is the third handed down against Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, since he returned from exile in late 2007 to face charges.
Last April, he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for ordering killings and kidnappings by the security forces.
Fujimori was already serving a six-year term after being found guilty in 2007 on separate charges of abuse of power.
The prosecution claimed that Fujimori illegally channelled huge sums to Vladimiro Montesinos.
The multi-million dollar payment was allegedly made just two months before corruption accusations in late 2000 abruptly ended Fujimori’s 10 years in power.
Montesinos, who is currently in prison convicted of several charges including corruption and embezzlement, was at the centre of the scandal which erupted after videos emerged showing him bribing opposition politicians and media magnates.
Fujimori had told the court the payment was not illegal because he had later reimbursed the state.
"I express my partial and relative conformity with the charges… I only acknowledge the facts, I don’t accept the criminal responsibility, the punishment or the civil reparations," he said. </p
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Egyptian court frees insult poet
July 20th, 2009 |
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An Egyptian court has overturned a three-year jail sentence given to a poet for insulting the president.
The court accepted the argument of Moneer Said Hanna’s lawyer that he had been investigated and put on trial without having had access to a lawyer.
The case had gone largely unreported until his family asked a newspaper last week to publish an appeal for clemency.
Relatives of the amateur poet told the BBC he was delighted and would not be writing poems of this kind again.
Under Egyptian law, insulting the President, Hosni Mubarak, can cost the offender three years in jail and a fine.
Civil servant Mr Hanna, 56, had been ordered to pay 100,000 Egyptian pounds ($18,000; £11,000), which was also overturned by the appeals court in Adwa, Minya province.
None of the offending verses written by Mr Hanna has been published.</p
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Delhi HC upholds conviction of Nanda in BMW hit and run case
July 20th, 2009 |
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The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of Sanjeev Nanda in the infamous BMW hit and run case, in which six persons were killed in 1999.
Justice Kailash Gambhir however reduced Nanda’s jail term from five to two years.
Nanda, a grandson of former Navy Chief Admiral S.M. Nanda, killed six persons while driving a BMW [...]
Pentagon Seeks To Overhaul Afghan Prison Where Detainee Abuse Occurred
July 20th, 2009 |
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A sweeping United States military review calls for overhauling the troubled American-run prison here as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial systems, a reaction to worries that abuses and militant recruiting within the prisons are helpi…
Allison Kilkenny: My Interview with the Man Who Spent 16 Years in Jail Because Sonia Sotomayor Denied His Appeal
July 15th, 2009 |
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Jeffrey Deskovic served 16 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. At the age of 16, he was arrested based…
Why Isn’t Cheney in Jail?
July 12th, 2009 |
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As I wrote yesterday about the CIA program that Panetta recently disclosed to Congress:As a former CIA agent says, the real question is who ordered the CIA to withhold the information from Congress . . .In a nation of laws, Bush, Cheney – or whoever in…