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| Colorado movie gunman James Holmes assaulted by fellow prisoner |
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 By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Convicted mass killer James Holmes, who is serving multiple life sentences for gunning down a dozen people at a movie theater in 2012, was assaulted by another inmate at a high-security Colorado prison, a corrections official said on Friday. Holmes was not injured when he was attacked by 27-year-old Mark C. Daniels at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Daniels lunged at Holmes and "took some swings" at him as the two prisoners were being escorted by guards down a hallway inside the lockup on Oct. 8, she said.
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| Indonesia's Aceh province enacts Islamic criminal code |
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 By Reza Munawir BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's conservative Aceh province has enacted a strict Islamic criminal code, local government officials said late on Friday, criminalising adultery, homosexuality, and public displays of affection outside of a legally recognised relationship. Aceh is the only province in the Muslim-dominated country to adhere to sharia, Islamic law, which puts it at odds with other provinces where the vast majority of the population practices a moderate form of the religion. "Non-Muslims can choose whether to be tried under sharia law or the regular Indonesian criminal code," said Syahrizal Abbas, head of the sharia legal department in the provincial government.
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| Blasts in Bangladesh target Shias, kill at least one, wound dozens |
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| A series of blasts targeting Shia Muslims in Dhaka killed at least one person and wounded dozens more early on Saturday as they gathered for a procession in the old part of the Bangladesh capital to mark the holy day of Ashura, police said. Police cordoned off the area and were investigating the blasts, which they said were caused by improvised explosive devices. "It is our apprehension that blasts were carried out only to panic the people and to create a chaotic situation," Colonel Ziaul Ahsan, an additional director general of the elite Rapid Action Battalion, told reporters. |
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