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| Egypt state violence at "unprecedented" level since July - Amnesty | | Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:08 AM | |
|  Egypt has seen state violence on an "unprecedented scale" since the army overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last July following mass protests again his rule, Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday. Egypt's authorities "quash dissent and trample on human rights", Amnesty said, pointing to mass arrests, pressure on the freedom of expression and the introduction of a law that limits the right to protest. The report came out two days before the third anniversary of the mass uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
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| 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. The campaign against the movement exposes the ambivalence in Beijing's bid to root out corruption, even as the authorities claim greater transparency.
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| Salman Khurshid and John Kerry discuss diplomatic row | |  The United States and India could soon reschedule a visit by the U.S. energy secretary that was cancelled because of a diplomatic row, New Delhi said after Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid met his counterpart U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday. "Both sides looked forward to the early realization of the mutually-agreed calendar of bilateral exchanges," India's foreign ministry said in a statement after the two men met in Montreux, Switzerland, on the sidelines of a Syrian peace conference. The statement mentioned a visit by Ernest Moniz, the U.S. energy secretary, who postponed his trip to India earlier this month because of a dispute over the arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York on charges of visa fraud and lying about how much she paid her housekeeper. In December, Kerry expressed regret for the incident in a phone call to India's National Security Adviser.
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| Time to end al Qaeda presence in Falluja - Iraq's Maliki | |  By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday it was time to clear al Qaeda-linked militants out of the rebel-held city of Falluja, but set no deadline for any military assault. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al Qaeda offshoot also on the frontlines of Syria's civil war, overran Falluja with help from other Sunni Muslim groups on January 1. Iraqi troops and security forces have set up a loose cordon around the city, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, and have clashed sporadically with insurgents inside, but Maliki has said community leaders and tribesmen should force ISIL to withdraw, in order to spare Falluja more bloodshed and destruction. "The time has come to settle this issue and end the presence of this gang in this city and save its people from their evil," Maliki said in his weekly televised address to the nation.
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| Scholars urge Britain to open 400-year-old state files | | | By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - Eminent British scholars have challenged the government to release a cache of secret files dating back almost 400 years that they say could spur a reappraisal of some contentious episodes of British colonial history and the Cold War. The foreign ministry only publicly admitted the existence of the so-called "special collection" of some 600,000 dossiers in 2011, when an historian came across a 45-year-old memo that referred to it. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) says it did not have the resources to sort through the files, despite laws requiring disclosure, but that it is now reviewing them to prioritise material of greatest public interest for release. But a group of 27 scholars from the British Academy used a letter to the Guardian newspaper to demand that in a free society all available records be released to ensure a full account of Britain's colonial past or the espionage mysteries of the Cold War. |
| 62 vacant ACB posts to soon be filled, HC told | | | New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday disposed of a plea seeking recruitment of officials in the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) after the Delhi government informed it that it was taking steps on the petition. The government told a bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath that it was soon going to hire officials for the vacant positions. The court was hearing a plea filed by advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal requesting directions to the government to fill the vacancies. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed on a Right to Information (RTI) reply received by the ACB where it was informed that 62 positions were vacant. |
| Tests confirm drugs in Pakistani truck is brown sugar | | | Srinagar, Jan 22 (IANS) A narcotics consignment seized in Jammu and Kashmir from a truck coming from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Jan 17 was brown sugar, forensic scientists confirmed Wednesday. After the seizure of 114 packets concealed under almonds, police arrested the truck driver and launched an investigation. Today we received the lab report confirming that the contraband is brown sugar," police told IANS. Trade across the Line of Control (LoC) was disrupted Jan 17 after the arrest of the driver and seizure of the vehicle by India. |
| Prosecutor asks Ribery and Benzema be cleared in sex trial | |  A prosecutor asked on Wednesday that French soccer internationals Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema be discharged of solicitation of an underage prostiture. "It is impossible for the accusation to prove that Franck Ribery was aware" that Zahia Dehar, a prostitute-turned-fashion model, was under 18 -- the age of majority in France, prosecutor Jean-Julien Xavier-Rolai told the Correctional Court of Paris. Xavier-Rolin added that Benzema should also be discharged. Real Madrid striker Benzema and Bayern Munich forward Ribery, who were not attending the four-day trial, were being tried on charges of paying Dehar when she was aged 16 and 17.
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