Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the coronavirus while in prison for rape and sexual assault, a local newspaper reported. Weinstein, 68, is now in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility in western New York, state prison officials told CNHI newspapers on Sunday. He was sentenced earlier this month to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haleyi […]
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Working at internet giant Baidu provided too much temptation for one employee, who got in legal hot water for harnessing the firm’s massive trove of servers to mine cryptocurrency. According to a report from China-focused news site Abacus on Monday, An Bang – a senior engineer working on Baidu’s popular search engine – downloaded monero mining scripts onto around 200 Baidu servers between April and June […]
Saudi Arabia is preparing to prosecute Palestinians jailed in its prisons, Quds Press reported family members of some detainees saying yesterday. According to the news site, the family members said that the court cases are scheduled to start on 8 March, noting that only a few close relatives would be allowed to attend hearings which would be held in Riyadh. Head of the Committee of the […]
Today he may be sitting and rotting in an Israeli cell, but in 2012 Palestinian graphic designer Hafez Omar’s posters were setting the internet alight. On Facebook in particular, his simple, iconic, anonymous brown avatars in support of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel spread like wildfire. People all over social media changed their profile photos to one or other of the male or female versions. In […]
UK 14:20 GMT 28.02.2020Get short URL When a pregnant woman in London was killed with a crossbow in November 2018 her local MP was promised by the government they would look into toughening up the laws on owning the lethal medieval weapons. But as a second crossbow killer is sentenced, why has the government not taken action on the weapons? A martial arts expert who lured […]
Eight members of US Congress have nominated Saudi women’s rights activist, Loujain Al- Hathloul, who has been imprisoned by authorities in Riyadh since 2018 for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Saudi security services arrested Al-Hathloul in mid-2018, as part of a campaign against female activists and human rights defenders. According to her family’s testimony before Congress, Loujain was subjected to sexual harassment and was threatened with rape […]
A British man has been imprisoned in Egypt after being accused of sexual assault after he patted a male airport security guard on the back. Tony Camoccio, 51, was on his way home from the Red Sea resort of Hurghada when he was patted down by a security officer. After he was finished he then patted the security officer on the back, which is when the […]