| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section. | Prominent Chinese activist on trial, refuses to defend himself | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Prominent Chinese rights advocate Xu Zhiyong went on trial on Wednesday in the country's most high-profile dissident case in years, but his lawyer said he refused to offer any defence and called the court unjust. Outside the courtroom, Xu's supporters chanted slogans and raised banners in his support. The government has waged a 10-month drive against Xu's "New Citizens' Movement", which advocates working within the system to press for change, including urging officials to disclose their assets. Xu's lawyer, Zhang Qingfang, told Reuters by telephone that Xu told the judge: "This court is not just so I will maintain my silence." The judge tried to persuade Xu and Xu's lawyers to speak but to no avail, so the judge called for a recess.
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| Italian dancer booked for beating her student in Odisha | | | Bhubaneswar, Jan 22 (IANS) An Italian dancer, who runs a school here, has been booked for beating up her student, a police official said Wednesday. A case was registered against 55-year-old Ileana Citaristi on the basis of a complaint lodged by the student's father, Lingaraj police station chief Baidhar Baliarsingh told IANS. The 10-year-old student's father said his daughter was assaulted by Ileana Citaristi Sunday over a trivial issue in the classroom, when she was taking a dance lesson. |
| Senior Thai pro-govt "red shirt" leader shot, wounded -police | | | A leader of Thailand's pro-government "red shirt" movement was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday in the northeastern town of Udon Thani, in what police said appeared to be a politically motivated attack. Kwanchai Praipana, who leads thousands of red-shirted pro-government supporters in Udon Thani province, was sitting outside his home when he was shot by unidentified assailants, police said. "The investigation has just begun but we believe this is a politically motivated crime." The shooting could further raise tension in the country after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government imposed a state of emergency in the capital, Bangkok, from Wednesday to help contain a protest movement trying to force her from power. |
| Mystery surrounds China Internet outage, possible Falun Gong link | |  SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - The cause of an Internet outage in China that rerouted millions of users to a U.S. website of a company which helps people get around Beijing's censorship remained a mystery on Wednesday, but experts weighed the possibility of a cyberattack. Users were redirected to a site run by a company tied to the Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned in China which has been blamed for past hacking attacks. The state-run China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in a microblog post that the outage, which lasted for several hours, was due to a malfunction in China's top-level domain name root servers on Tuesday afternoon. Chinese Internet users were rerouted to a U.S.-based website run by Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a company that sells anti-censorship web services tailored for Chinese users, including a product that enables the retrieval of microblog posts deleted by Chinese censors.
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| California educator resigns after abuse accusations on YouTube video | |  By Brandon Lowrey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California educator has resigned after a woman accused her in a YouTube video of abusing her when she was a 12-year-old student, school authorities said on Tuesday, and police said they were looking into the allegations. In a video that went viral, 28-year-old Jamie Carrillo speaks into a webcam and confronts a woman identified as a school administrator with allegations of sexual abuse that Carillo says began when she was a middle school student. The video has drawn 480,000 hits since being posted on Friday. Officials for the Alhambra Unified School District, where the educator was working as a high school assistant principal, said they received an email on Friday with a link to the YouTube video, and immediately notified police.
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| A year after his death, film explores Aaron Swartz's online activism | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - A year after Internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide, a new documentary brings to light the young computer prodigy's earnest battle to bring online freedom of access to information for everyone. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday and director Brian Knappenberger was joined by Swartz's father Robert and two brothers, Noah and Ben, all of whom received a standing ovation.
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| Snowden denies he got help from Russia in leaking U.S. secrets - report | |  Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking U.S. government secrets and that suggestions by some U.S. lawmakers he might have had help from Russia were "absurd," the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday. In an interview the magazine said was conducted by encrypted means from Moscow, Snowden was quoted as saying, "This 'Russian spy' push is absurd." Snowden said he "clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no help from anyone, much less a government," the New Yorker said. The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Sunday he was investigating whether Snowden had help from Russia in stealing and revealing U.S. government secrets. Rogers did not provide specific evidence to back his suggestions of Russian involvement in Snowden's activities, but said, "Some of the things we're finding we would call clues that certainly would indicate to me that he had some help." Snowden fled the United States last year to Hong Kong and then to Russia, where he was granted at least a year of asylum.
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