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| France plans prison expansion to tackle overcrowding and Islamist radicalisation | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - France unveiled plans on Thursday to build 33 new jails and renovate older ones in a bid to ease chronic overcrowding that justice officials say breeds conditions for Islamist radicalisation of prisoners. France's prisons rank third in Europe for overcrowding according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, with official figures showing there are 68,253 people incarcerated but places for only 58,587. A further estimated 1,400 members of the prison population have been won over to fight for radical causes by Islamist militant recruiters.
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| Pakistan cracks down on TV airing Indian content as tension escalates | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's media regulator has launched a crackdown on companies airing Indian television channels and content, officials said on Thursday, after an escalation of violence in the disputed Kashmir region between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Tension between the old rivals has been high since an Indian security force crackdown on protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir began in July, following the killing of a young Muslim separatist leader by security forces. Relations worsened in September when militants killed 18 soldiers in a raid on an Indian army base, an attack India blamed on Pakistan.
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| Myanmar court jails Dutchman for three months for disrupting Buddhist sermon | | | By Aung Hla Tun Yangon (Reuters) - A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced a Dutch tourist to three months in prison and a fine after he unplugged a public address system that was relaying a Buddhist sermon, his lawyer said. Klaas Haytema, 30, was arrested after he entered a community hall in the central city of Mandalay on Sept. 23 and disrupted a recitation by Buddhist laymen. Haytema told a court hearing on Tuesday he was unaware a religious ceremony was in progress, but disconnected the hall's loudspeakers because they were disturbing his sleep, said Hla Ko, a Myanmar lawyer who volunteered to represent the Dutchman. |
| Turkey holds 20 alleged members of coup 'sleeper cell' - agency | | | Twenty suspects including Turkish soldiers and a deputy governor were jailed pending trial on Thursday, accused of belonging to a "sleeper cell" to be activated if a July military coup attempt had been successful, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkey enforced emergency rule and began dismissing, suspending and arresting state officials after the coup attempt in which rogue troops commandeered warplanes to bomb parliament and used tanks to kill 240 people, many of whom were civilians. It says followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen staged the coup to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan and seize control of the country. |
| Poland's parliament rejects plans for near-total abortion ban | |  Polish lawmakers on Thursday rejected plans for a near-total ban on abortion, in a hastily arranged vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the ruling conservatives and follows street protests by tens of thousands of women. The ruling Law and Justice party (PIS) unexpectedly withdrew its support for draft proposals drawn up by an independent anti-abortion campaign group, in an unscheduled parliamentary committee meeting late on Wednesday. "PiS continues to back the protection of life," party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski told parliament.
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| Election in ex-Soviet Georgia seen as test of stability after violence | |  By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - A close parliamentary election in Georgia on Saturday is being seen as a test of stability in the ex-Soviet state after a car bombing and a shooting marred the run-up to the vote. Criss-crossed by strategically important oil and gas pipelines and traditionally buffeted between Russia and the West, a fifth of Georgian territory remains under the control of pro-Russian separatists and the economy is emerging from a deep slowdown, which has crimped living standards. Opinion polls suggest the ruling Georgian Dream party, which is funded and controlled by the country's richest man, is likely to win.
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| Four quit Myanmar rights panel amid outcry over handling of child abuse case | | | By Aung Hla Tun Yangon (Reuters) - Four members of Myanmar's National Human Rights Commission have stepped down after a public outcry over the panel's handling of a child abuse case, the office of President Htin Kyaw said on Thursday. The commission is tasked with tackling the abuses that continue to be reported in Myanmar despite a transition to a democratically elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi earlier this year. It has been under scrutiny since it emerged last month that commissioners had brokered a compensation deal in a case where two girls were allegedly held against their will and abused over a period of five years by the owners of a tailor shop in Yangon, the commercial capital. |
| Somali Islamist militants kill six in Kenya attack | | | Islamist militants from the Somali group al Shabaab killed six people in an attack in northeast Kenya on Thursday, the latest in a series of raids by the group in the region. Mandera on the Somali border has often been targeted by al Shabaab, which says it will continue its campaign of attacks in Kenya until the Kenyan government withdraws its troops from Somalia where they are part of an African force. "We have suffered another sad attack," the governor of Mandera county, Ali Roba, wrote on Twitter, saying six people had been confirmed killed. |
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