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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Tortured Afghan girl to be treated in India

Updated January 03, 2012 08:23:48

An Afghan child bride who says she was tortured by her mother-in-law and locked in a toilet for six months will be sent to India for medical treatment, the government in Kabul said on Monday.

Sahar Gul, 15, was beaten, had her fingernails pulled out and was burned with cigarettes after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution. She was left barely able to speak after her ordeal.

The girl, who was found in the basement of her husband's house in the north-east Baghlan province late last month, had been sold by her brother to her husband about seven months ago for $5,000.

Her family, from the neighbouring province of Badakhshan, had reported her disappearance to the police after being denied access to the home.

"The government is sending her to India for further treatment. She will be treated for her wounds," Afghan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqui said.

"Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law have been arrested, the police are after her husband and father-in-law who are at large, they will be arrested soon."

Women continue to suffer in Afghanistan despite billions of dollars of international aid which has poured into the country during the decade-long war.

President Hamid Karzai's office said in a statement that the interior ministry had launched an investigation into the "tortures and violence against Sahar Gul".

"The president, in raising this issue to the national security council meeting, assigned the deputy interior minister to arrest the culprits as soon as possible and bring them to justice", the statement said.

The teenager had previously told Afghan health minister Dr Suraya Dalil from a hospital bed in Kabul, "for several months I was locked up in toilet by my in-laws and particularly my mother-in-law".

"I was denied food and water. I was tortured and beaten," she said.

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission logged 1,026 cases of violence against women in the second quarter of 2011 compared with 2,700 cases for the whole of 2010.

And according to figures in an Oxfam report in October, 87 per cent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.

AFP

Topics: crime, rights, afghanistan, india

First posted January 03, 2012 08:14:01

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-03/tortured-afghan-girl-to-be-treated-in-india/3755824

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Iowa Caucus Prediction -- Paul in Second, Romney in First (ContributorNetwork)

FIRST PERSON | No matter which place they hold, anyone in the top three is a winner coming out of Iowa. Mitt Romney has sufficiently lowered expectations, and kept a fractured "anti-Romney" movement at bay. Ron Paul finally earns the credibility he has been searching for, and gives credence to his libertarian movement - the challenge will be the renewed scrutiny that comes with the status.

A week ago I would have pegged Paul for the top spot for one reason -- new people on caucus night. Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won the caucuses because they brought out new folks who had never caucused, maybe never voted, before. I think that is true for Paul. His campaign is built on the energy of the disenchanted -- Republicans independents, as well as Democrats. I think folks who have never voted for a Republican will come out for Paul tonight, then never vote for another Republican again.

The reason I don't have him in my top spot, however, is that the Seltzer/Register poll last week heavily sampled independents into the mix. They left out Democrats, which I still think come out for Paul, but they included enough new voters and independents that it should give an accurate flavor of Paul's movement -- and he has essentially slipped into neutral with no upward movement.

Romney, on the other hand, keeps inching up. Many of Romney's critics lambast him for not paying enough attention to Iowa, not enough days visiting here in the last year. But tonight Romney will see the fruits of the labor he put in four years ago. People will come home for Romney for two traits also highlighted in the Seltzer poll -- presidential material, and electability in the general election. Yes, Republicans want a candidate they trust. But more so then four years ago they want a candidate that can win. They see that in Mitt Romney like no other.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Britain will unite around the Olympics and greet the Games as a national tonic, according to a Populus poll for The Times which suggests that the public is prepared to suspend its economic pessimism when the carnival of world sport begins this summer. Three quarters intend to get involved, either attending an event in person, watching it on television or getting together with friends in public. David Cameron uses his new year message today to declare 2012 as ?the year we must go for it? because the world will be watching Britain. The Prime Minister urged the country to capitalise on the ?extraordinary incentive? offered by the Games and to ?look outward, look onwards and to look our best?. It would be, he predicted, ?the best Olympics ever?. His enthusiasm is shared by six out of ten Britons who say they are intending to watch the Games on TV, guaranteeing a domestic audience of tens of millions. A further 6 per cent plan to watch on one of the BBC?s 22 big outdoor screens, and almost one in ten plans to attend in person after more than six million tickets were sold last year. This Friday, Olympic authorities begin their re-sale programme, when tickets initially purchased but no longer required go up for grabs. A final batch of 1.3 million tickets will go on sale in the spring. The country is pinning its hopes for British gold on Tom Daley, the 17-year-old diver from Devon, and Jessica Ennis, the 25-year old track an

Cosmetic surgeons face new rules on record keeping as ministers seek to avoid a repeat of the breast-implant health scare affecting tens of thousands of women. Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, is warming to the idea of a national register or database containing details about how many patients have undergone different procedures. He has ordered an urgent review and will meet officials tomorrow to try to establish the full facts. The safety alert took on a new urgency when Transform, the cosmetic surgery chain, told the Department of Health on Friday that 7 per cent of implants supplied by the bankrupt French firm PIP had ruptured since 2006. That contradicted the official figure of 1 per cent supplied by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the industry regulator. The department is unsure if the figure represents the whole i

January 2 2012 12:01AM

David Cameron today vows to tackle City excess as he draws up battlelines for 2012 against Ed Miliband over the issue of a more responsible capitalism. The Prime Minister used his New Year?s message to herald a crackdown on executive salary hikes and big bonuses as he insisted that he would be bold about curbing society?s problems. ?While a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in, many others are stuck on benefits, without hope or responsibility,? he said. Mr Cameron also signalled a new drive against poor standards in hospitals, saying that often they were not clean enough. And he said that there would be no let up in the drive to ensure that the Government?s welfare and school reforms are pushed to the limit. But his move on to territory already marked out by Mr Miliband suggests that

January 2 2012 12:01AM

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3273571.ece

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Off-Duty ATF Agent Slain In LI Robbery Confrontation Was Picking Up Cancer Meds For His Dad (Gothamist)

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Monday, January 2, 2012

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

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China factories struggle, policy action seen ahead (Reuters)

Posted by The Wall Street Geek Investing Saturday, December 31st, 2011

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Reuters ? China?s big manufacturers narrowly avoided a contraction in December a survey showed on Sunday, but downward risks persist and suggest the world?s second?s second-largest economy will need fresh policy support to counter a slowdown in growth.

Source: http://www.thewallstreetgeek.com/2011/12/china-factories-struggle-policy-action-seen-ahead-reuters-2/