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| U.S. Justice Dept launches civil rights probe into Baltimore policing | |  The U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced a federal civil rights investigation into the legality of the Baltimore police department's use of force and whether there are patterns of discriminatory policing. The investigation is being launched at the request of Baltimore's mayor in response to the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man injured in police custody, and the outrage it sparked in Maryland's largest city. Though the Justice Department is already investigating Gray's death and working with the Baltimore police on reform, Lynch said last week's protests pointed to the need for an investigation. "It was clear to a number of people looking at this situation that the community's rather frayed trust - to use an understatement - was even worse and has in effect been severed in terms of the relationship with the police department," Lynch said at a press conference on Friday.
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| Thousands expected at funeral for slain New York policeman | |  By Sebastien Malo SEAFORD, N.Y. (Reuters) - Thousands of police from around the United States were expected at Friday's funeral for a 25-year-old New York City officer who was shot in the head while on patrol, making him the fifth member of the NYPD to die in the line of duty since December. The funeral for the New York Police Department's Brian Moore was slated to begin at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Seaford, a Long Island suburb east of the city. It comes only five months after two other New York patrolmen were fatally shot while sitting in their patrol car, highlighting the dangers faced by law enforcement in the city. U.S. Representative Peter King, a Republican who represents the congressional district where Moore lived, said the officer's slaying was a reminder of the courage and sacrifice that police make to protect the public.
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| PM Modi defends ban on Delhi gang rape documentary | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his government's decision to ban a controversial documentary film about the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi, saying it was to ensure the dignity of the victim was protected. The film "India's Daughter" - which features an interview with one of the men who raped and tortured a 23-year-old woman on a bus in December 2012 - was banned in March as his comments were considered to be derogatory towards women. The director of the documentary, Leslee Udwin, said the ban obstructed free speech, and critics have said the move was aimed at concealing widespread misogynistic attitudes in India. In his first remarks about the case, Modi told Time Magazine that broadcasting the documentary would have "violated the dignity of the victim".
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| Thailand wants meeting with Myanmar, Malaysia over human trafficking crisis | |  By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Friday called for a three-way meeting with neighbours Malaysia and Myanmar to try to resolve a regional human trafficking crisis following the discovery of a mass grave in the country's far south. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. Three suspected trafficking camps have also been found. "I have ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to liaise with Malaysia and Myanmar to hold a meeting to resolve this," Prayuth told reporters.
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| Sahara agrees to pay bail to release jailed boss | |  Subrata Roy has been held in jail for more than a year after Sahara failed to comply with a court order to refund billions of dollars it had raised in outlawed bonds. Sahara, once one of India's most high-profile firms, has in the past made several failed attempts to raise the bail money using its prized overseas hotels that include the Plaza in New York and Grosvenor House in London. The Supreme Court in March allowed Sahara three more months to raise cash for the bail money. "All the formalities for the bail bond would be completed before Thursday," he said, declining to be named.
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| Charities warn Modi that crackdown will hurt the poor | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Charities in India on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop a government crackdown on thousands of foreign-funded non-profit groups saying it would hurt the lives of poor and marginalised people. Since Modi swept to power almost a year ago, his right-wing nationalist government has tightened surveillance on foreign-funded charities. Charities reject the accusations, but admit there may be some groups which had unintended funding discrepancies. "Funds are being frozen, intelligence reports are being selectively released to paint NGOs in poor light, disbursal of funds are being subjected to case-by-case clearance, and their activities are reportedly being placed on 'watch lists'," said an open letter to Modi signed by 171 charities and activists.
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| China hikes cigarette tax in anti-smoking drive | |  By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - China is set to raise the wholesale tax rate for cigarettes to 11 percent from 5 percent, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, in a move to deter smokers in the world's biggest maker and consumer of tobacco. China has accelerated a campaign against smoking over the past year, despite persistent opposition from the tobacco industry. Domestic and foreign anti-smoking activists say China's cigarette habit has come at a heavy cost to the healthcare system. The parliament passed legislation last month banning tobacco ads in the mass media, public places, on public transport and outdoors.
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| Bay of Bengal people-smuggling doubles in 2015 - UNHCR | | | By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded people-smugglers' boats in the first three months of this year, twice as many in the same period of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. Many of the migrants are Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh hoping to escape religious and ethnic persecution and work abroad. The most common smuggling route takes them from Myanmar and Bangladesh to the Ranong area of southern Thailand, followed by a day-long road trip to smugglers' camps towards the border with Malaysia. |
| Tribunal asks SEBI to prove insider trader charges against fund | | | An Indian appeals tribunal has ordered the country's market regulator to provide proof of its insider trading charges against Factorial Capital Management within two months, adding pressure on investigators to resolve a year-long case. The tribunal ruling concerns an interim order passed in June 2014 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) accusing Factorial of shorting shares of L&T Finance Holdings Ltd based on inside information in its most high profile insider trading case yet. SEBI banned Factorial from trading Indian securities but has yet to pass a final order providing concrete evidence of its accusations. Factorial has challenged the ban, and on Friday the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), which rules on securities-related matters, was critical of the regulator. |
| Delaware police release video of white officer kicking black suspect | | | Police in Delaware have released video from a 2013 incident showing a black suspect being kicked in the face by a white officer who has been charged with assault. The dash cam video was released by the Dover Police Department on Thursday after a federal judge ruled the images it contains are no longer confidential. The video was released three days after Dover Police Officer Corporal Thomas Webster was arrested on a charge of felony assault for kicking Lateef Dickerson as he kneeled to the ground during his arrest near a Dover gas station, police said. Dickerson suffered a broken jaw and was knocked unconscious, police said in a statement. |
| Salman Khan's jail term deferred pending appeal in hit-and-run case | |  The Bombay High Court postponed a five-year prison sentence handed down to Bollywood star Salman Khan on Friday pending an appeal, two days after a criminal court convicted him of killing a man in a hit-and-run accident 13 years ago. The postponement and bail extension drove up shares of at least one firm having commercial ties with Khan, one of Bollywood's most bankable actors who is working on several projects worth millions of dollars.
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| Thailand's trafficking crackdown adds to migrants' misery | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aubrey Belford NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Thailand (Reuters) - A crackdown on human trafficking networks in Thailand is putting migrants fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh at more risk as smugglers hold their captives for longer at sea and hide deeper in the jungle, say activists and officials. Police have found more than 30 bodies, mostly believed to be of stateless Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, since last Friday after raiding camps in the country's south where migrants were held for ransom under brutal conditions.
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| Thai junta asserts itself, banning ex-minister from politics over rice deals | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military-appointed legislature banned a former minister from office on Friday over corrupt rice export deals, months after former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached for negligence over a rice-pledging scheme. Boonsong Teriyaphirom, commerce minister in Yingluck's government, was banned from politics for five years by the National Legislative Assembly. "The NLA has voted to impeach Boonsong Teriyaphirom," assembly president Pornpetch Wichitcholachai said on Friday. Poom Sarapol, Boonsong's former deputy commerce minister, and Manas Soiploy, a former director-general of the Department of Foreign Trade, were also banned from office. |
| U.S. NSA's phone spying programme ruled illegal by appeals court | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. spying programme that systematically collects millions of Americans' phone records is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, putting pressure on Congress to quickly decide whether to replace or end the controversial anti-terrorism surveillance. Ruling on a programme revealed by former government security contractor Edward Snowden, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the Patriot Act did not authorise the National Security Agency to collect Americans' calling records in bulk.
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| China's draft national security law calls for cyberspace "sovereignty" | | | China has included cybersecurity in a draft national security law, the latest in a string of moves by Beijing to bolster the legal framework protecting the country's information technology. China has recently advanced a wave of policies to tighten cybersecurity after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden disclosed that U.S. spy agencies planted code in American tech exports to snoop on overseas targets. The standing committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's legislature, reviewed a cyberspace "sovereignty" clause in a proposed national security law, according to a draft posted online this week after its second reading in late April. |
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