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|Mirumoto Kenzo
|Mirumoto Junnosuke
|Un-named Soshi
|Unnamed son
Mirumoto Kenzo was a bushi of the Dragon Clan.
Training Edit
Kenzo was a student of the Iron Mountain Dojo. [1]
Father Edit
Ichiro was the son of Mirumoto Junnosuke, and, in 1158, he had not even passed his gempukku when his father was disgraced, cast out of the Dragon Clan and made ronin. Mirumoto Daimyo Mirumoto Uso and Bayushi Paneki, the Scorpion who came with Junnosuke's blackmail information, determined that his arranged marriage to a daughter of the Soshi line would proceed as planned. After his gempukku Ichiro took the name of Mirumoto Kenzo. [1] He heard many tales of his father's battle prowess from Tamori Tsukiro. [2]
Meeting Temoru Edit
In 1161, Kenzo found a wounded Mirumoto Temoru whose group had suffered a yobanjin attack. Kenzo helped Temoru reach Shiro Mirumoto where Temoru revealed to Uso that he had been carrying a scroll containing information on a possible method of stopping Isawa's Last Wish and thereby ending the Dragon-Phoenix War. Uso revealed to Temoru that he had been travelling for two years, and that the war was already over. This and other powerful nemuranai caused Uso and Temoru to start the Nemuranai Hunters of the Dragon Clan. Temoru travelled to the yobanjin City of Gold to investigate things further, and brought Kenzo with him. [1] Temoru eventually took up residency in the City of Gold and married. [3]
Wife and Uso's Funeral Edit
Kenzo was married to his Soshi bride, and both attended Mirumoto Uso's funeral, who was murdered in 1161. It was at this time that Kenzo was promoted to the rank of gunso and tasked with a special mission by the new Mirumoto Daimyo, Mirumoto Rosanjin. His first orders were to bring the news of Uso's murder to Mirumoto Temoru. [1] Kenzo was risen to command the Nemuranai Seekers. [4]
Nemuranai Hunter Edit
Kenzo had a son in 1165. [5] He collected nemuranai and threw them into Tamori's Furnace to destroy them, as commanded by Mirumoto Rosanjin and Temoru. The Dragon Clan Champion, Togashi Satsu, saw him and discovered that Kenzo's destiny was critical, and could spell victory or disaster for the Dragon Clan in the future. [6] Yobanjin bandits had increased their presence between the City of Gold and the Dragon lands, so Kenzo stopped his visits to Temoru and focused his efforts on seeking out and destroying nemuranai. [7]
Mirumoto Mareshi Edit
Kenzo saw Mirumoto Mareshi at Shiro Mirumoto, the son of The Daini and the naga woman Mara. He was impressed by his skills, and Mirumoto Rosanjin allowed Kenzo to conscript him in the Nemuranai Hunters. [7]
Rain of Blood Edit
After the Rain of Blood covered the Empire in 1165, Kenzo halted his hunting of nemuranai and began to hunt bloodspeakers. He and Mareshi joined General Toku in the Phoenix lands, where cultists had been seen. [8]
Hidden City Edit
The enemies they found were animated dead. Doji Midoru, who was part of the army, took an amulet that was in a small shrine. It was Emma-O's Amulet, and the Crane was told that it belonged to Akodo Tadenori, who was tainted in the Rain. [9] The army received a dove with a message from the Master of Air, Isawa Nakamuro. He requested their aid to protect the secretive city of Gisei Toshi, a city throught previously destroyed at the dawn of the Empire by the forces of Fu-Leng. A Bloodspeaker army, led by Yajinden and Iuchiban, was marching to assault the City. [10] The battle had been going poorly for the Phoenix for three days until the arrival of Dragon and Monkey forces. The defenders were able to open the gates long enough to permit their entrance. At the request of the Pheonix, Toku's son, Toturi Kyoji, had sent a messenger to Toshi Ranbo informing that the Bloodspeakers marched on the Phoenix lands, but he asked for no reinforcements. They were all trapped there, outnumbered, with little hope of aid, in a city that did not exist. [11] Five days later, Nakamuro vanished, and shortly after, the north wall shone red, and tore itself apart from within. Kenzo rallied the defenders to fill the breach. [12]
Ambition Edit
The undead and bloodspeakers came rushing into the city and began to loot the temples. Kenzo ordered the defenders to do the same, denying their enemies the powerful artifacts found within the city. Kenzo and Mareshi went into the temple of Benten, where they were attacked by a creature with six legs and a boar's head with four long tusks. They wounded the oni, and its acid blood melted the armour and wakizashi of Kenzo. Seeking a replacement for his destroyed blade, he found a cursed wakizashi that was at the temple. The fight ended when the City was magically transported to another place, and the remnants of the samurai and Bloodspeaker armies retreated into the Mountains of the Phoenix. [13] Unbeknownst to Kenzo, the wakizashi he had picked up was the reforged Ambition, which had bound itself to him during the battle. [14]
Notices from Temoru Edit
In 1166, Temoru wrote to Rosanjin claiming that destroying nemuranai was a complete mistake. His intention was to classify and study them, but his words were misunderstood, perverted or abused. As a result, this led to the destruction of countless benevolent artifacts. He then informed Rosanjim of his intention to come back to Dragon lands. [15]
Murder Investigations Edit
Rosanjin and Kenzo arrived in the village were Seiden Sanzo was built. There had been several murders in the village that were similar to Mirumoto Uso's several years before. Kitsuki Otojiro, the investigator that was in charge of Uso's death, told them that a Dragon Magistrate had been killed several weeks before, and just recently a monk and a Phoenix shugenja named Asako Tsuruko, were found dead in the shrine. Orojiro said that people had been more violent in the village as of late and that he suspected some supernatural powers were at work, he also stated that some one posing as one of the monks had just arrived and was still inside the shrine. As they entered the shrine they found Kaelung, the monk outlaw, who was in the Dragon lands seeking an audience with Togashi Satsu to make atonement. He had heard of the murders and came to investigate, Rosanjin did not believe him at first, but Kaelung offered to surrender to Rosanjin and offered to help. Kenzo was charged with ensuring Kaelung's behaviour. Their investigation led to Tsukuro's yojimbo, Mirumoto Kazunori, who had disappeared shortly after the murder of his charge. [14]
Shrine of Stone Edit
Kaelung tracked Kazunori to the hidden Shrine of Stone located deep within the wilderness. Kenzo went in through the front while Kaelung circled around the back. When Kenzo confronted Kazunori, the yojimbo went mad and charged Kenzo, but Kaelung burst through the back of the shrine and rushed to Kenzo's defense elbowing the crazed Kazunori in the face. During the fight Kazunori's katana started to glow a blood red and Kaulung stared at it in fear, he knew then that it was one of the shameswords made by Kokujin on the Anvil of Despair. Kenzo's wakizashi, Ambition started to glow blue in response and when he blocked the shamesword he saw the anguished face of his father Junnosuke reflected on the blade's surface. While Kazunori and Kenzo tried to overpower each other Kaelung attacked from behind and buried his ono in the back of Kazunori's skull. [14]
Blade of FuryEdit
When Rosanjin and Otojiro arrived at the Shrine of Stone to examine Kazunori's body, Otojiro discovered a letter from Asako Tsuruko to her yojimbo Kazunori stating that not only was she the one who had killed Mirumoto Uso, as well as the Dragon magistrate but that she was also a Bloodspeaker. She also claimed to not know where the shamesword had come from but that it just showed up in her belongings one day. Tsuruko claims that it was the sword that drove her to kill Uso, which she deeply regretted and the memory of it haunted her for years. Tsuruko went to Seiden Sanzo to pray to Sanzo for guidance, but when Kazunori confronted her with the letter she killed the monk there and fought Kazunori, who took the shamesword and killed her with it before fleeing into the woods to hide in the Shrine of Stone. Kenzo asked how he could have seen his father's face reflected in the blade, Rosanjin explained that the sword was forged using the soul of a disgraced Dragon. Rosanjin then asked Kenzo to take the shamesword known as Fury to the High House of Light for safe keeping, as well as to escort Kaelung to see Satsu, for he had earned the right to be judged by their Lord. [14] Kenzo returned with the blade with the intention that it would be placed in trustworthy hands. [16] As Kenzo alone seemed immune to the blade's influence, Rosanjin decided to give Fury back to Kenzo. [17]
Yojimbo Edit
In 1167 Kenzo was appointed as the yojimbo of the courtier Kitsuki Seiji. Since the War of Silk and Steel had taxed the Dragon's resources to their very limit. Seiji was tasked with making trade agreements for rice with the Minor Clans, offering to sponsor them in the Imperial Court. He and Kenzo traveled with a ronin vassal, Hozumi, to the Ox court, where Seiji succesfully made an agreement. [17]
Monkey lands Edit
The group went to the Vigilant Keep of the Monkey to meet the Monkey Clan Champion Toku Inao. Kenzo was surprised when Hozumi introduced himself to Inao as the son of Toku's comrade, Sanzo. The Scorpion Clan, represented by Bayushi Tsimaru, was also there meeting with the Monkey for the same reason. Officially Tsimaru was dealing with matters regarding the betrothal of the Scorpion Clan Champion, Bayushi Paneki, to Inao's daughter, Toturi Miyako. [17]
Shamesword Edit
In Toku's Shrine, Kenzo met with Tsimaru who revealed the rice production of the Scorpion Clan lands had been devastated by a manifestation of Bishamon, who had been angered by the Scorpion's inability to protect Rosoku, Shinsei's heir. Kenzo in turn discovered that Tsimaru was in possession of one of the Shameswords. Tsimaru was either unaware of the name of the Shamesword or he chose not to tell Kenzo. Not having been trained to resist the urges of Kokujin's creation, Kenzo wished to take the sword from Tsimaru. Tsimaru told Kenzo that he would give the blade to the Dragon if Kenzo informed Mirumoto Rosanjin about another matter. Previously, the Dragon had asked the for the Scorpion's counsel on who to send to the Shadowlands as the Empire's Ambassador. Tsimaru relayed their choice and told him a name: Mirumoto Taishuu. The Dragon Clan followed the Scorpion's counsel, and [17] Taishuu was chosen as the Empire's ambassador to the Shadowlands. [18]
Mirumoto Kei, Clan Champion Edit
In 1170, Kenzo was made captain of the Mirumoto Elite Guard and part of the Command Staff to the Dragon Clan Champion Mirumoto Kei. [19]
War of Dark Fire Edit
Kenzo was alongside Kei seeking the raiding patrols of the Army of Fire in the War of Dark Fire. In 1171 he fought in the Battle of Shiro Mirumoto. [19]
End of the War Edit
Kenzo, as Kei's shireikan, fought in the Battle of Dragon Heart Plain, where the minions of Chosai were outmaneuvered and destroyed by the armies of the Lion, Crab, Dragon, and Phoenix, as well as the cavalry forces of the Shogun. [20]
Destroyer War Edit
News came that the yobanjin Army of Fire had assaulted again the Empire and they were arriving Last Ridge Village during the opening phase of the Destroyer War. Kenzo was alongside Togashi Miyoko and her companion Hozumi. Miyoko sought the aid of Isawa Nakajima, who sent his yojimbo Shiba Nobuyuki to talk with Miyoko's brother, Togashi Taro. The tattooed monk was convinced and departed to fight the minions of the Dark Oracle of Fire. He dealt with the barbarians alone. [21]
God Beast Edit
In 1172 Kenzo was near Ryoko Owari Toshi with the combined Rokugani armies facing the God Beast of Kali-Ma and his summoned spawns. Togashi Osawa's monks and the Scorpion unit called the Shadow Blades joined the fight. [22]
Kei's sonEdit
Mirumoto Kei sequestered her at Jousai Tengai to have her child. [23] The Army of Fire harassed the area, and Kenzo bought her enough time to recover and for reinforcements to arrive. [24]
Chosai Edit
The Dragon lured the Dark Oracle of Fire Chosai to a trap. He attacked the fifth guardtower in the Phoenix border, and Isawa Mizuhiko wielding Judgement wounded and drove him back. [25]
External Links Edit
- Mirumoto Kenzo (Reign of Blood)
- Mirumoto Kenzo Exp (Web of Lies)
- Mirumoto Kenzo Exp2 (Empire at War)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Legacy, by Shawn Carman
- ↑ Secrets of the Dragon, p. 33
- ↑ City of Gold (Diamond Edition flavor)
- ↑ Secrets of the Dragon, p. 32
- ↑ Birth and Death (Reign of Blood flavor)
- ↑ Return of the Master (Diamond Rulebook Story), by Rich Wulf and Shawn Carman
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Clan Letter to the Dragon (Imperial Herald v2 #9)
- ↑ Penance, Part Three, by Rich Wulf
- ↑ Dawn of Battle (Hidden City Rulebook Story), by Rich Wulf
- ↑ Battle at Gisei Toshi (Hidden City Booster Story)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Fury, by Shawn Carman and Rich Wulf
- ↑ Clan Letter to the Dragon (Hidden City timeline)
- ↑ Broken Tiger, by Shawn Carman and Rich Wulf
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Worldly Matters, by Shawn Carman
- ↑ Soul of Darkness, Part 1, by Shawn Carman
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 The War of Dark Fire, Part 7, by Shawn Carman, Nancy Sauer, and Brian Yoon
- ↑ The War of Dark Fire, Part 16, by Shawn Carman
- ↑ Doctrine of Confrontation, by Lucas Twyman
- ↑ Wrath of the God-Beast, Part 1, by Shawn Carman
- ↑ Patrolling the Roads (The Plague War flavor)
- ↑ Knowledge of the Land (Empire at War flavor)
- ↑ A Desperate Ruse, by Brian Yoon
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| Prolixius5 chapter 1 . 4/2/2010
I've read that story so many times. It's just beautiful. And your idea to write from Algernon's POV is very original: I wish you'd go on with this. It started good... Waiting for more.
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Love the story "Flower's for Algernon". Just finished reading it...you should update. It would be a very intersting story coming from Algernon's POV.
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Why didn't you continue? A story from Algernon's P.O.V. would be great! I would continue it if I were you.

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During the first three hundred years after Jesus' death, there was a split in Christianity. This was at a time when Emperor Constantine chose Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire. In both versions of Christianity, the trinity (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) was used to express the basic principles of the religion. In each version, the Father represented consciousness, the Son reason or thinking, and the Holy Ghost represented creativity (a piece of God within you).
The "Gnostic" Christians (i.e. Manichaeism) believed that thinking was a process used by consciousness to communicate and to plan your activities, etc. It must always be balanced with creativity so that the thinking process does not become rigid.
This was expressed as "The Bridal Chamber", in which the bride (creativity) and groom (thinking) were united and balanced within the larger space of the room (pure consciousness). And so they explained that the Father "begets" the "Son" and is not the same as the "Son".
The "Apostolic" Christians believed that thinking is the same as consciousness – that there is no other state of consciousness than thinking. Creativity is also thinking. Everything is thinking. They expressed this as the Son IS the Father or "Jesus is God".
Emperor Constantine called for a conference in the city of Nicaea in 323 AD to settle these differences. The emperor set himself up as the moderator. Now, using our thinking minds to good advantage, which version would an empire, needing to keep control over vast numbers of people of many different cultures, choose as the "correct" version of Christianity? If thinking was the only version of consciousness considered legitimate, and the Roman Empire and the Apostolics provided a list of approved thoughts, then that inconvenient factor of creativity could be eliminated.
It is easier to control people whose minds all conform. To this day it is hard to convince people that there is another state of consciousness other than thinking. The state of consciousness which is controlled by the thinking process is one dimensional. Each thought follows the other, one by one.
Why do you only start with Constantine? Read Philip Schaff's history and see how the roots of falsehood were planted at least a hundred years earlier, such that Constantine only put the official Roman stamp of approval on what the churches had already held to be true. And your reinterpretations of concepts derived from the scriptures themselves are not Constantine's invention either. ADDED: Gnosticism was opposed by the apostles.
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- "Walking around without makeup all the time - I know that you should not do it, but this is what I like to do and now it's really comfortable and fun. In this chaos is really nice to have someone where you can sit on the couch and not worry about it."
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text: Trying to respond to several points that were raised in this thread... 1. If live cds are as indispensable as you claim they are, it will be relatively straightforward to produce them for F13 simply by omitting the big items that will push us over the cd size limit, ie OpenOffice, example content, and whatever else we decide to fill the new space with. But the bigger image will be the one that we try to make as good as possible, and the CD-sized offspring will be a cut down version with gaps. 2. More download choices are not a part of the solution, but a part of the problem... We already have the problem that people are choosing to download the DVD just because DVD > CD; but unlike the spins, the DVD is not a designed product at all. If we need to make a cd-sized alternative available, it should be marked clearly as a secondary option on the download page, e.g. hidden behind a 'Can't boot USB ?' question... 3. 'Chain-booting' from cd to usb sounds like an elegant way to avoid the 'Can't boot USB' problem. Did we figure out how Mandriva are doing it ? Matthias


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Transcript: Wade Henderson's Testimony on "Drowning in Debt: Financial Outcomes of Students at For-Profit Colleges"
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Hearing on "Drowning in Debt: Financial Outcomes of Students at For-Profit Colleges"(June 7, 2011)
Transcript of Testimony by Wade Henderson, President and CEO The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
"Thank you, Chairman Harkin, and good morning both to you and members of the committee. As you've already noted, I'm Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a national coalition of over 200 organizations working to build an America that's as good as its ideals. I'm also proud to appear before you today as the Joseph L. Raul, Jr. Professor of Public Interest Law at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia.
"I want to thank you again for inviting me here today to testify on why the civil rights communities strongly support the efforts of this committee and those of the Obama administration to expand access to post-secondary education.
"Now before I address the substance of today's hearing Mr. Chairman, I do want to thank you personally for your efforts in the current appropriations process to protect education funding, especially funding for Pell grants which are a vital lifeline for low-income and working families seeking to send their children to college.
"The Leadership Conference believes that access to education is a fundamental civil and human right. In fact, access to high quality education is among the most pressing civil and human right issues of this century. This principle is especially important at a time when educational attainment and access to employment are more closely intertwined than ever. A greater investment in the lives and hopes of our nation's young people is of paramount importance. To be perfectly blunt, if we don't educate every child, every young adult, every working American who seeks to change careers and to educate them well, our future as a nation is in serious jeopardy.
"The Leadership Conference recognizes the vital role that post-secondary education of all types, including for-profit settings, can play in educating and preparing young people for the jobs and careers of today and tomorrow.
"The for-profit sector enrollment has more than tripled over the last decade and now comprises 11% of the nation's full-time undergraduate enrollment. It enrolls disproportionate numbers of women, racial minorities, low-income students, veterans, and older Americans, including many working people seeking to further their careers through online coursework. However, we are alarmed by the mounting evidence that the for-profit sector is engaging in what I would call predatory lending practices: overcharging for their product, failing to deliver on programs leading to gainful employment, leaving large numbers of students saddled with enormous debt, and leaving taxpayers holding the bag. And I should note that this is debt that is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. It will dog the future financial success of these individuals for much of their remaining lives.
"As civil rights advocates this is all too familiar. This is the very same thing that we saw with the rampant predatory lending that occurred during the housing boom, in which some actors in an industry that services low-income and minority people decided to take advantage of these individuals simply because they believe they could.
"Government cannot sit by as it did during the housing boom and allow the worst actors to exploit those they serve while claiming that because they provide a valuable service that these communities desperately need they should be exempt from scrutiny. Indeed, the reverse is true. It is imperative that we guard against powerful institutions taking advantage of and exploiting the least among us.
"That's why the Leadership Conference believes that the Department of Education's Gainful Employment rule is a long-overdue and important step in protecting students and taxpayers from unscrupulous career education programs. While the rule does not include many of the protections urged by civil rights, students, women, labor and consumers organizations, it does send a strong message to many for-profit programs to start putting students first.
"We recognize that they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, but they also have a responsibility to the national interest on which they rely in getting the funding that supports the institutions they serve.
"For-profit colleges can be viable option for many students who may not have many other options, but that doesn't give these businesses the right to exploit those they serve. Access to college and career education isn't just about enrollment, it isn't just about being able to say that you are giving to minorities, women, and low-income people an opportunity to reach their dreams, you have to actually provide the necessary skills and training that you purport to deliver. The degrees and certifications that for-profit students obtain must be worth more than the paper that they're printed on. Otherwise, what's the point?
"Our nation's future depends to a large degree on how well we educate the next generation. We will succeed only if we allow students a fair opportunity to obtain the skills and knowledge they need to fully participate in our economy and our society. The new Gainful Employment Rule, adequate funding for ESEA and student financial aid programs, and continued efforts by both the department of education and this committee will help ensure that they get the chance. Our investment in our children, our young people, older working adults must be as great as our dreams for our future. Nothing less will do. Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
Learn More:
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
- Transcript of Sen. Tom Harkin's opening statement on "Drowning in Debt: Financial Outcomes of Students at For-Profit Colleges"
- Transcript: Sen. Barbara Mikulski's Opening Statement on "Drowning in Debt: Financial Outcomes of Students at For-Profit Colleges"
- Wade Henderson's written testimony submitted on June 7, 2011 (PDF)
- U.S. Department of Education: Obama administration announces new steps to protect students from ineffective career college programs
- U.S. Department of Education: Gainful Employment Rules draft released on June 3, 2011 (PDF)


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Located in the heart of Cleburne, this hotel is steps from Plaza Theater and Johnson County Courthouse. Splash Station is 0.6 mi (0.9 km) away.
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We Are Brothers and Sisters
As a Conference, we have nurtured the desire to come and identify with you, our brothers and sisters, since the unfortunate incidence of genocide here in Rwanda. We have sent our officials and donations. We give God the glory that we are here after several attempts.
The message that we bring to you, Mr. Prime Minister and the good people of Rwanda, is the message of peace, love and reconciliation that comes from Christ. We know that, many Rwandans have lost live, properties and relations. As members of the body of Christ, the Church, we are humiliated that some of the faithful and clergy even took part in the atrocities.
Nonetheless, the people of Rwanda have many reasons to be grateful to God. You are a homogenous people, blessed with unrivalled human and natural resources. God has blessed you with immense potentials to enable you conquer nature and live in peace. Much still remains to be done. Your country needs social and economic upliftment as a developing country. There is no doubt that many Rwandans remain traumatized and haunted by their experiences. But we cannot allow the past to enslave us. We must allow time to heal the scars, both physical and psychological. The words of Isaiah, the Prophet, at this period, should console us. He said,
The Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore He exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of Justice; blessed are those who wait for Him. Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you. And though the lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, this is the way, walk in it. (Is. 30: 18 – 25)
We note that the leadership in Rwanda is endowed with progressive leadership vision and mission needed to overcome the obstacles of development in this country. With minimal resources, the government continues to lead and drive ahead a difficult process of reconciliation. It can, therefore be rightly said that your greatest task has been your greatest achievement to date.
The challenge before you is the challenge of cooperation and solidarity with one another as you walk through the path of nationhood and as you make all the efforts to build your country and compete with other nations in our contemporary world.
We are pleased to note that your country Rwanda is a country transformed, full of vim and vigor. Your country is in most need of the collaboration and cooperation of every citizen, including the Catholic Church.
In effect, the Catholic Church, being one of the major Christian denominations in this country, has extra obligations to the people of Rwanda. The church has the requisite resources to uplift the hearts and minds of the people of this great country. The Catholic Church has a whole tradition of promoting integral human development and contributing to the service of the common good.
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church compels members to work for peace and Justice. The Church needs appropriate platform in order to be able to develop effective framework for promoting integral human development and articulate the necessary prerequisites for contributing to the desires and hopes of the people of Rwanda.
In our interaction with the Catholic Bishops of Rwanda, we have underlined the need and the challenge of the social teaching of the Church, in the contemporary world, to create a world more human; where citizens feel a sense of belonging to their nations and participate actively in the service and promotion of social justice and the common good. This requires appropriate collaboration between government and the Church.
In the contemporary world, no citizen can afford to feel indifferent in matters that concern public good. We are all and each obliged to contribute to development and peace everywhere we find ourselves in our country.
Our prayer is that God, who has deigned to bring peace and reconciliation to this country, will sustain you in His goodness and grant you all that you require to bring your country to greater heights.
For us in Nigeria, we shall always join you in prayers as we commit you to Mary, the Queen of Peace.
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Archbishop of Ibadan and
President, Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria
Rev. Fr. Michael Ekpenyong
Secretary-General, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria
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Sirte, Libya (AFP) Oct 6, 2011
Fine words from NATO and Libyan new regime fighters about protecting civilians mean little to the furious residents of Sirte, whose homes are destroyed and relatives killed in the battle to capture Moamer Kadhafi's hometown.
"Why is NATO bombing us?" asked Faraj Mussa, whose blue minivan was carrying his family of eight jammed in beside mattresses and suitcases as they fled the city this week.
"We were afraid to come out because they (Kadhafi loyalists) told us that the NTC (National Transitional Council) would cut our throats. But we couldn't stay because of the bombing -- we had to take the risk," he said.
Salem Hamees, leaving with his extended family, said: "Our house was hit by a bomb. It destroyed three rooms. We were lucky because we were in the other rooms.
"We don't know where it came from. The NATO bombing is scary. It's all scary. There is no difference between their bombs," he said.
Sirte is one of the last two hold-outs of the fugitive dictator's loyalists and the NTC fighters who have besieged it since mid-September blitz it most days with canon, tank and anti-aircraft fire.
NATO planes roar overhead, enforcing the alliance's United Nations mandate to protect civilians by taking out Kadhafi's remaining military hardware and thus providing the air cover that gives NTC fighters the upper hand in their siege.
But many among the thousands of Sirte residents who managed to escape said the biggest danger was not Kadhafi loyalists but the bombs that drop from the sky and the ones the NTC fighters lob into their Mediterranean port city.
International aid workers also say that NATO bombing is sometimes doing the opposite of what it is supposed to do in the city that was home to around 100,000 people before the Libyan revolution kicked off in February.
When asked if NATO was fulfilling its mission to protect civilians, one aid worker, who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak publicly, replied: "It wouldn't seem so."
"There's a lot of indiscriminate fire," he said, adding that many of the Sirte residents and doctors he had spoken to had complained of the deadly results of NATO airstrikes.
NATO regularly rejected accusations by the Kadhafi regime during the revolution of killing innocent civilians with its strikes.
It did so again on Wednesday when asked by AFP if its bombs might have killed non-combatants in Sirte.
"When we absolutely need to intervene to protect the population, we do so with utmost care, targeting only military assets and using precision guided munitions to avoid civilian casualties," a NATO official said.
The official noted in an email that the alliance "has not conducted any strike in Sirte since last weekend and is siding with none of the forces on the ground."
The strikes may have stopped for the moment but until last weekend they were an almost daily event.
Last Saturday, for example, NATO warplanes hit "one command and control node, one infantry and anti-aircraft artillery staging area, two armed vehicles, four armoured infantry vehicles, one tank," according to the official.
Which is a lot of attacks on an area of just a few square kilometres bounded on one side by the Mediterranean sea and on the others by NTC positions.
The new regime forces also insist they are doing their utmost to protect civilians. They say they have been holding off their final assault on the city in order to let as many residents as possible escape.
But they blast the city on most days. On Wednesday, fighters shelled Kadhafi's forces for several hours using tanks, anti-tank rockets and multiple rocket launchers from positions 1.5 kilometres (a mile) south of the showpiece Ouagadougou Conference Centre and the nearby Ibn Sina hospital.
Several apartment blocks are situated next to the hospital.
Last Saturday, when the Red Cross managed for the first time to take medical supplies into the city, several rockets landed within the hospital compound while they were there.
Fighters firing a multiple rocket launcher and a tank at a suspected sniper position in the heart of the city on Wednesday said there was no risk of hitting civilians because there was none left.
"They're all gone," said one fighter. But aid workers say there are still thousands of non-combatants there.
From the same position one day last week, an AFP reporter watched as youngsters and middle-aged men queued up to take turns at firing missiles from a tank into the urban area.
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NATO weighs end to Libya campaign
Brussels (AFP) Oct 5, 2011
NATO allies are weighing when to call an end to the air campaign in Libya now that Moamer Kadhafi's forces are surrounded and often beyond the reach of Western warplanes, officials said Wednesday. Forces loyal to the deposed dictator are encircled in Sirte and Bani Walid and hiding among the local population, rendering NATO fighter jets less effective and raising the risk of civilian casualt ... read more
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Poles to Watch Papal Beatification From a Distance
A smaller Polish crowd than originally expected will show up at the beatification of Polish-born Pope John Paul II in Rome over the weekend, tour operators say.
The pontiff, who died in 2005, was one of the most popular popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. When his reign began in 1978, the Soviet Union held a firm grip on Poland and much of central and eastern Europe. In his home country, John Paul II is largely credited with helping topple the communist system.
He also gave a sense of pride to his nation, which suffers from an undeserved inferiority complex. In Poland, the late pontiff is sometimes referred to as one of the greatest Poles who ever lived.


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After a long winter, it's time to liberate your Harley from hibernation and enjoy a weekend of motorcycle fun and cruising down the highway! The 7th annual event will feature live entertainment, bike games, competition ride-in shows, poker run, more than 80 vendor booths, participant parties for registrants. The event is open to all bike models.
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Who were the "Ancient Astronauts?" Five of your fellow Unsolved Mystery Club explorers have disappeared while searching for evidence to support the existence of visitors from other words, and you'll join the hunt to find them – and search for ancient secrets of the past – in Freeze Tag's Unsolved Mystery Club: Ancient Astronauts. This is the second hidden object adventure in the Unsolved Mystery Club series, following Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart. This time around, as you can see from the screenshots, you'll search exotic locations around the world collecting artifacts and solving puzzles and mini-games.
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I am blogging this for one reason why does a death of a child have anything to do with football?
Sure the son was involved with some aspects of training camp.
But lets look at this in a mature way or can we, his son was struggling with a sickness called drugs not a play book.
I used the Penn State story as an example of how we can think we know all?
At PSU it didn't matter how many kids being abused , No what mattered at least from what I read FOOTBALL are you kidding me , look at how popular Nittany lions football was and Joe Paterno how or why should this thing called abuse take away from that?
Now I read where a death of a son is being overlooked?
I have never had kids, I love kids but as a joke they go home...
But as in a sports crazed society , it didn't matter what kind of reaction the Reid family had over this tragic death....
all I've read about recently is the sy of relief that coach Reid is gone. and we still want to ring up his sons death??
This I don't understand...I as I said have never had kids so how would I react in this example????
the idiots who are news people are in my mind super idiots when it comes to reporting, example a family has just lost everything in a fire... and here comes the idiot with mic in hand asking this "how do you feel?"
or lets say when Reid's son was found I can see some ....expecting Reid to say hey lets all go to Disneyland?
How would YOU handle it?
lets from now on keep it in the context of football or sports if nothing else!
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Four important things that happen in Mitosis:
The nucleus divides
Chromatin organizes into chromatids.
The nuclear membrane falls apart
The nucleus disapears .
The chromosomes line up in the middle
The spindle fibers attach to the centromeres
Mitosis and the Cell Cycle
G1: Growth and replication of organelles
S: Synthesis of DNA
G2: Assembly of spindle begins
The nuclear membrane tears so chromosomes can spread out.
The chromatin organizes itself into chromatids.
The nucleolus disappears.
Spindle Fibers blast out of the centrioles
Cytokinesis is when the cell physically splits into two different parts right after telophase occurs. Also the cytoplasm pinches in and then the cell splits into two and that's how Cytokinesis works.
The chromatids are pulled apart by the spindle fibers.
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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 16 January 2015
Posted on 16th Jan 2015 in Weekly Notes
This week's selection of legal news from home and abroad includes much that is related to or brought into focus by the terrorist attacks in Paris last week, such as questions about freedom of expression, respect for religion and other rights, and the tension between privacy and electronic intelligence gathering.
Other recent articles of interest:
- Eleanora Rosati on the IP Kat blog, Can you reproduce Charlie Hebdo cartoons without permission? looks at the position under French and other copyright laws should you wish to reproduce said cartoons (example shown), eg in an article discussing the conflict between free speech and religious extremism.
- Deena Blacking on The Justice Gap, Is the UK really any better than US at holding police to account? on whether, in the wake of the grand jury decisions not to indict police officers over deaths of suspects or detainees in the United States, the British police are subject to more rigorous accountability.
- Paul M on the Transparency Project blog, The curious case of the judge with no name on the tendency of some sections of the media to treat an accidental omission as evidence of a deep-seated conspiracy.
- Interview of Sir Ivan Lawrence QC by Jenny McCartney in The Spectator, The Tory barrister who defended the Krays and Dennis Nilsen on why Chris Grayling has gone too far
- Internet Newsletter for Lawyers January/February 2015 including articles on the first barrister-only ABS, and Access to justice through technology.
Human Rights: listing delay
The Conservative plan to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a new-look Bill of Rights seems to have run aground almost as definitively (though perhaps not quite as deliberately) as the stricken Hoegh Osaka cargo ship in the Solent earlier this month. According to the Law Society Gazette:
"The bill, announced last October in the party's paper Protecting Human Rights in the UK, had been due to appear before Christmas. However the Conservatives admitted last week that it was not yet ready for publication. 'It has been pushed back a little for fine tuning,' a party source told the Gazette. Publication will 'definitely' be before the May general election, the source added.
Whether it will in fact be refloated in time remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, one Tory backbencher was not slow to exploit L'Affaire Charlie Hebdo in support of a listing to starboard, declaring on his blog that the "Paris attacks show need to scrap Human Rights Act". David Davies MP (not to be confused with the rather better known David Davis MP) was taken to task by Adam Wagner on the UK Human Rights Blog for having "no understanding of the Human Rights Act" and for providing a "spurious" example of a dangerous extremist being able to claim asylum under the Act, notwithstanding that there are provisions in the Refugee Convention (not mentioned by Davies) which would in fact preclude it. Wagner concludes:
MPs have a responsibility to be accurate when the promote the repeal of an important law. Mr Davies' post is irresponsible, particularly in the charged climate following the Paris attacks. He should remove or amend it, with a clear message that he got it wrong.
Mr Davies has not done so. His post was also the subject of a response by Mark Elliott on Public Law for Everyone, who concluded:
Freedom of expression in general and freedom of the press in particular are values that were championed by the journalists and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, and they are values enshrined in Article 10 of the ECHR and, hence, in our own Human Rights Act. To suggest that the shocking events that took place in Paris this week establish a need to repeal that legislation discloses not only an astonishing degree of legal illiteracy but a fundamental failure to appreciate what it means to live in a liberal democracy.
Elsewhere, the virtues of the Human Rights Act were championed by the former DPP and current Labour parliamentary candidate Sir Keir Starmer QC in an article in Counsel Magazine (January 2015) entitled The Case for the Human Rights Act.
And by way of a reminder that there are still some Tories who support the HRA, there was a profile of Dominic Grieve QC MP in the Gazette around the same time. In it, he derides the government paper (proposing the Bill of Rights) for being "deficient in reasoning" and says, in a more general comment about politics and the forthcoming election, that "Mainstream politicians have lost touch with the people they aspire to represent."
Global law summit
Summit not quite right about Magna Carta commemoration
As the Gazette profile notes, Dominic Grieve is also involved in organising the Global Law Summit, scheduled for 25-25 February 2015,
which will bring more than 2,000 law, business, government and academic leaders from around the world to London to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta. Grieve has dubbed the summit 'the Davos of where law meets business'.
No doubt he would say that. The summit has been the subject of a less than glowing reception elsewhere: in the Telegraph Peter Oborne in a piece entitled The hypocrites have jumped aboard the Magna Carta bandwagon said it was right to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta but the way it is being done, as a promotional jolly to boost UK law biz, was "sordid, disgusting and debased", and the sponsors listed on the summit's website included several whose connection to the promotion of human rights and the rule of law were puzzling, to say the least.
"The rank stench of moral hypocrisy will hang over the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre," he says, commenting adversely on some of the speakers as well (eg Boris Johnson, who last year proposed abandoning the presumption of innocence for certain classes of defendants – see Terror Makes Tyrants of Us All on this blog). In short, says Oborne,
Mr Cameron's Government has launched something close to an out-and-out attack on the rule of law. The idea that either he or his ministers give a damn for the principles that underlie Magna Carta is preposterous.
Also critical is Legal Voice, which suggests an alternative event, Not the Global Law Summit, organised by the Justice Alliance, including Stand Up for Legal Aid – Justice Just got Funny! on 23 February at the Union Chapel. This will be a comedy evening with a lineup of comedians and satirists (hopefully responsible ones – see next story) on the subject of law and its absence.
The alternative summit is being organised to provide a more appropriate celebration of what Magna Carta stands for:
The Government is re-writing historical dates to make political capital out of a celebration of the rule of law. It is trumpeting our justice system while behind the scenes damaging the rule of law and causing irreparable harm to access to justice.
We are calling on all principled lawyers to boycott the Global Law Summit and attend Justice Alliance's alternative celebration of the Magna Carta, Not the Global Law Summit.
Freedom of expression: a qualified right?
Should rights, like alcohol, be "enjoyed responsibly"?
In the wake of the assassinations of the writers, cartoonists and editors of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a lot of commentary, while accepting that no amount of offence to anyone's religious sensibilities deserved an extra-judicial death sentence, nevertheless sought to question whether the right to freedom of expression was as absolute as everyone seemed to be saying. No one seemed in any doubt that the cartoons (especially) in Charlie Hebdo were crude and rude and likely to cause offence. But were they satire?
The controversial novelist Will Self, in an article for Vice entitled The Charlie Hebdo Attack and the Awkward Truths About Our Fetish for 'Free Speech' seemed to be questioning whether they were, when measured by his yardstick, a definition by HL Mencken of journalism, viz that is should "afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted".
For my own part, I would regard that as a very inadequate definition of satire, which must include holding a mirror up to human vanity, hypocrisy and self-delusion, among other qualities, and gross exaggeration for comic or ironic effect of deliberately held ideologies (as opposed to unavoidable qualities such as race or physical appearance). But even if the cartoons weren't satire on anyone's definition, that hardly precludes them from the protection of freedom of expression. Nor does Will Self contend otherwise, he just wants to make us feel uncomfortable (perhaps in a Menckenian sense):
This is in no way to condone the shooting of Charb and the other journalists – an act that, as I pointed out initially, is evil, pure and simple, but our society makes a fetish of "the right to free speech" without ever questioning what sort of responsibilities are implied by this right.
Likewise, Max Fisher on Vox, in a piece entitled What everyone gets wrong about Charlie Hebdo and racism, pointed out that many of the cartoons, even allowing for their ironic double meaning, could in fact be seen as not only racist but targeting and offending (as Will Self was saying) those least able to defend themselves, such as the North African immigrants in the poorer suburbs.
This echoed an article in the Financial Times, (The gunmen in Paris attacked more than a Muslim-baiting magazine), which Tony Barber had written on the day of the attacks, before anything was known about the perpetrators, and before the attack on the Jewish supermarket two days later. Barber acknowledged the atrocity of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, but then immediately questioned its good faith in selecting targets for its satire:
Charlie Hebdo is a bastion of the French tradition of hard-hitting satire. It has a long record of mocking, baiting and needling Muslims.
He goes on to say:
This is not in the slightest to condone the murderers, who must be caught and punished, or to suggest that freedom of expression should not extend to satirical portrayals of religion. It is merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications such as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims.
What these and other articles seemed to be saying was not that the massed crowds of supporters carrying "Je suis Charlie" placards were being hypocritical (unlike some of the politicians or envoys who turned out at the rally) but, rather, that it was perhaps unfortunate that the martyrs to the human right of freedom of expression were not quite as saintly or virtuous and their publication not quite the enlightened beacon of progressive values as might more comfortably have been the case.
But that seems gloriously to miss the point. Rights are there for everyone. The suggestion that some are more deserving of rights than others, or that only those exercising rights in a responsible manner deserve protection, is exactly the kind of human rights heresy that the Tories seem to be falling into with their Bill of Rights (see above).
As a corrective, Nick Cohen in the Spectator on that day attacked what he called
insidious articles, which condemn freedom of speech as a provocation and make weasel excuses for murder without having the guts to admit it.
In an article entitled Charlie Hebdo: the truths that ought to be self-evident but still aren't, he also pointed out, inter alia,
It is not 'Islamophobic' to satirise radical Islamists and their beliefs – the main targets of radical Islamists include other Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, Yazidis and secularists.
He returned to the fray three days later with an article in the Guardian (Paris attacks: unless we overcome fear, self-censorship will spread) asserting that, in the UK at least, the right to freedom of expression was already subject to a de facto law of blasphemy:
We have a blasphemy law. No electorate has approved it. No parliament has passed it. No judge supervises its application and no jury determines guilt beyond reasonable doubt. There's no right of appeal. And the penalty is death. It is enforced not by a police bound by codes of conduct, but by a fear that dare not speak its name; a cowardice so total it lacks the courage to admit it is afraid.
This is the phantom of self-censorship, the very "common sense" and "responsibility" urged by those he regards (see above) as weasel-worded appeasers. And he questions the powerlessness of what radical Islam represents, or indeed (in countries like Saudi Arabia – see below) the non-radical but established version. In short, by kow towing to thin-skinned oppressors we are making a rod, if not a Kalashnikov, for our own backs.
Snoopy rides again
Calls for more powers in wake of intelligence failure
Last year, in the wake of the murder of Lee Rigby by two extremists who had been on the intelligence radar as potentially dangerous extremists, the knee-jerk response of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), having identified a number of failures by the security services, was to blame the social medium Facebook for providing, in its moderately private channels of communication and self-advertisement, a "safe haven" (sic) for terrorists. (See Weekly Notes, 5 December 2014.)
This came after the speedy enactment (with barely any debate) of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIP) which requires ISPs and telecoms companies to retain private communications metadata for up to 12 months and to permit law enforcement agencies to use the actual content in investigating crime and terrorism.
Now, the day after the slaugher of Charlie Hebdo staff, the head of MI5, Andrew Parker, called for new powers to fight extremism, according to the Guardian,
warning of a dangerous imbalance between increasing numbers of terrorist plots against the UK and a drop in the capabilities of intelligence services to snoop on communications.
This despite the fact that the French authorities already had all the powers they needed to keep track of the Kouachi brothers who carried out the attack on Charlie Hebdo, they just allowed them to drop off the radar, either by mistake or because they lacked resources to keep track of all those within their sights. The same would be true here, argued Henry Porter, in a later Guardian piece, Why MI5 does not need more surveillance powers after the Paris attacks:
MI5 has recently been required to divert £123m of its £2bn budget to cybersecurity – so what may be needed is more money rather than further intrusive powers. It is obviously always easier for a government fighting a deficit to pass legislation on the latter, but this is not a sensible way to respond to an attack that was calculated to set people apart and undermine the values of liberty, tolerance and openness. In other words, we should not compromise the fundamentals of our democratic system by dishing out mass surveillance powers.
Paul Bernal in his blog pointed out that Paris damages the case for mass surveillance…
France already has extensive surveillance powers. It already has ID cards. It already has more privacy invasions than we in the UK have – and we have a huge amount. That surveillance, those privacy invasions, didn't stop the shooting in Paris. Why, therefore, would we believe that similar powers would work better in the UK?
In the Financial Times (Acts of terrorism and Terrorism Acts), David Allen Green points out the cyclical nature of such calls for action:
whatever the security problem, the political solution seems invariably to be more law. Something dreadful happens, and the response of many UK politicians and officials is "tougher powers" and another bill on the statute book. …
And so in the UK over the last 15 years, we have had a Terrorism Act, then an Anti-terrorism Act, then a Prevention of Terrorism Act, another Terrorism Act, then a Counter-Terrorism Act, and most recently a Terrorism Prevention Act. Currently there is a Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill before parliament.
He attributes this to a mixture of impotence of politicians and the ever-growing greed of the security services for the right to snoop and pry, regardless of whether it achieves anything in the way of justice or security.
Parish News
New chairman
The incoming Chairman of the Bar, Alistair MacDonald QC, set out his stall in a speech, reproduced in Counsel Magazine, on what he identified as the four main issues that would dominate the profession in 2015: "criminal legal aid, the crippling effect of LASPO, new business structures and keeping England and Wales the jurisdiction of choice".
He made an important observation about the value of access to professionally trained advocates at a time when regulators seem content to allow untrained and unregulated competitors to enter the market in the mistaken belief it is providing customer choice in the age of austerity:
I believe that litigants who are currently paying McKenzie friends would prefer to employ the services of a fully insured and regulated, direct access trained, junior barrister who has carried out pupillage and has the benefit of operating from chambers, if they did but know that they had that option. The costs of doing so would be the same as, or only slightly greater.
Barristers' new business models
From 5 January the Bar Standards Board will accept applications from barristers wishing to set up and own "entities" to provide "reserved legal activities" such as appearing in court as an advocate. The BSB will start authorising such BSB-regulated businesses from April.
In what is billed as a "new era for the Bar", Barristers and other "advocacy focussed" lawyers will be able to form companies, partnerships or set up an LLP without needing to change regulator. The BSB is not yet proposing to authorise Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) – entities with non-lawyer owners and managers – but will in 2015 apply separately to the Legal Services Board to become a licensing authority of ABSs.
More details: BSB
Holiday plans
The Bar Council, like many at this time of year, appeared to be concentrating on holiday plans, announcing a mission to Brazil from 14 to 20 March 2015. A delegation will visit Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Recife, with a view to raising the profile of the Bar within the Brazilian legal market and promoting the services barristers can offer Brazilian clients. Unfortunately, this is a bit too late to coincide with the Rio carnival (February 13 to February 18, 2015). But no doubt the bar delegation will take full advantage of the host nation's warm hospitality.
International Bar Association
The International Bar Association (IBA) has announced David W Rivkin as its new President. The press release states:
Consistently ranked as one of the top international dispute resolution practitioners in the world, Mr Rivkin is a litigation partner at the New York and London offices of law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. He is also Co-Chair of the firm's International Dispute Resolution Group.
Law (and injustice) around the world
Debauchery defendants acquitted
In a rare-ish piece of good news from Egypt, where the rule of law is severely threatened by the current military regime's crackdown on dissent, 26 men who had been arrested for "debauchery" after a raid on a public bath house were eventually acquitted – but "only after they had endured public humiliation, weeks in jail and, in at least three cases, apparent sexual assault while in custody", writes the LA Times.
The arrests followed a tip-off by a pro-government television reporter, who attended the raid with camera crew. Although homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, gays are persecuted and the government appears to be clamping down on LGBT groups generally. They are not the only ones. A man who declared himself an atheist on Facebook was apparently imprisoned for 3 years in consequence, according to the same report.
Delhi rape reportings up a third
The number of rapes reported in Delhi has increased by nearly a third in the past year, according to the Guardian, highlighting the alarming levels of sexual violence against women in the Indian capital. But it perhaps also shows that women are less reluctant to come forward, given the publicity and international outcry in response to the prevalence of the crime in recent news reports, and demonstrations that have taken place in India. As the Guardian notes, two years ago,the death of a medical student who was gang-raped on a moving bus in the city triggered mass protests that led to policing and legal reforms. More recently, an Uber taxi driver has been charged with raping a client.
Aceh's sharia law: raped and beaten; then formally whipped
According to the Sydney Morning Herald (from which the above headline was taken), a woman found to be alone in her house with a man not her husband was first gang-raped by a mob of indignant villagers before being more formally flogged for immorality. A couple of the men were later found and punished, but the rest are still free.
Student jailed for insulting Kenyatta
The Daily Nation reports that a student at Moi University, Alan Wadi Okengo alias Lieutenant Wadi, was sentenced in a Nairobi court to two years in jail for posting on social media unprintable insults against President Uhuru Kenyatta. He was sentenced after pleading guilty to two charges of hate speech and demeaning authority of a public officer, contrary to Section 132 of the Penal Code.
In her ruling, the magistrate said , "the offence is serious and a deterrent penalty is called for to serve as a warning to others abusing the social media forums."
Saudi Arabia
Lashings of support for human rights
The double standards demonstrated by the Saudi ambassador attending the rally in Paris in support of free speech, and by implication the rule of law and human rights enjoyed thereunder, was commented on by many at the time (eg New Statesman) , given that his own country's legal system had sentenced a blogger, Raif Badawi, to ten years imprisonment and 1000 lashes for setting up a website to champion free speech in the Kingdom and publishing a blog, the Saudi Free Liberals Forum, in which he was occasionally critical of the theocratic way it is governed. It was shut down after his arrest in 2012. Last week he was given the first instalment of 50 lashes. This week, the same dose was postponed because his wounds from the first instalment had not yet healed. One supposes they do not want to kill him too soon – ie before he can enjoy the full severity of his punishment. (See Guardian, Saudi blogger faces next 50 lashes as government ignores global protests.)
To demonstrate the United Kingdom's support for international human rights, or perhaps its commitment to higher values of Realpolitik, or just plain money, the Ministry of Justice is pleased to do business with Saudi Arabia, reporting in its Mid-year Report to Parliament (p 6) that its subsidiary, Just Solutions International, had submitted a
£5.9m proposal to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Finance to conduct a training needs analysis across all the learning and development programmes within the Saudi Arabian Prison Service."
David Hencke comments on this in his blog, Ministry of Justice: Flogging prison expertise to Saudi beheaders and floggers. He asks, in response to the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling's claim that doing such business helps reduce the deficit,
is there not an ethical matter whether the British taxpayer wants the deficit reduced by making profits from a regime that tortures, publicly beheads ( some 59 in first nine months of last year) and flogs people? It could be said to amount to blood money.
See also: Human Rights Watch (via Huffington Post): The Price of Standing Up for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Singapore International Commercial Court launched
According to Channel News Asia, the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) was launched on 5 January 2015 with the aim of the Republic becoming a centre for resolving commercial disputes. The report goes on:
At the opening of the legal year 2015 on Monday morning, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon announced the appointment of 11 international judges to work alongside local judges for the SICC.
The international judges include the Honourable Sir Vivian Ramsey from the United Kingdom, a former judge of the High Court of England and Wales; the Honourable Ms Carolyn Berger, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware, United States; Japan's Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi, former Chairman and Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization; and the Honourable Justice Dominique T Hascher, Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of France.
Police top bribery league
According to a report in The Citizen,
The Police Force is the most corrupt public institution in Tanzania, according to the 2014 East African Bribery Index (EABI). The report released yesterday says that members of the Police Force received 25 per cent of all bribes given to employees of public institutions last year.
Second [somewhat alarmingly] is the Judiciary, whose workers pocketed 18 per cent, while agencies tasked with registration and issuance of licences are third on 10 per cent. Local government authorities and natural resources departments are joint fourth after their employees took five per cent of bribes.
Tanzania's police force is the second most corrupt in East Africa. Uganda tops this league of shame with Kenya and Burundi in third and fourth places, respectively. Police in Rwanda are the least corrupt in the region, according to the report.
And Finally…
I leave you with one of the best images of the events in Paris last week, an almost painterly view, via Reuters.
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