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Monday, June 20, 2005

Mediapersons are the prostitutes of the governments?

Several top journalists who have covered the UAE say the country has a long way to go in respect of providing functional freedom to the media, while at least one top journalist in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region feels, “My colleagues and I are prostitutes of the government.”

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Rape victim ordered to marry rapist

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have arrested a man accused of raping his daughter-in-law. But a Muslim council of community elders has ordered that she marry her father-in-law and change her relationship with her husband to that between a mother and son.

It also ordered her to leave her home and stay away for seven month and 10 days to become "pure".