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Kuwaiti opposition leader jailed for 5 years for criticizing emir
Former Kuwaiti parliamentarian Mussallam al-Barrak was convicted of insulting the country’s leader, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, at a public rally on October 15. Criminal court judge Wael Atiqi sentenced al-Barrak to “five years in prison with immediate effect,” ordering him to be taken from the courtroom and immediately imprisoned.On April 8, al-Barrak’s lawyers left the court after the judge refused to hear testimony from witnesses called by the defense. Al-Barrak plead for more time to form a new defense team, but the judge denied his request and said the final verdict would be rendered on April 15.Last October, while holding a speech at an opposition rally, al-Barrak called on Sheikh al-Sabah to not be an “autocratic” leader. This statement was used as a justification for the arrest and detention of the outspoken politician later in the month.On November 1, after four days in custody, al-Barrak was released on bail from Kuwait Central Jail in Sulaibiya, only to face these new charges. He has now been accused of taking part in illegal protests, and of storming the country’s parliament alongside opposition protesters.Al-Barrak’s lawyer Mohammed Abdul Qader al-Jassem said the defense is considering filing an appeal against the sentence. Dozens of al-Barrak’s supporters gathered near his family’s guest house in a show of support for the opposition activist.The imprisonment of dissidents is a regular event in Kuwait: Several opposition bloggers and former parliamentarians have been jailed over the last few months for making comments on Twitter critical on country’s authorities.Mass protests have rocked Kuwait for over a year after a new parliament was elected in December 2012 under new electoral law amended by the emir shortly before.Kuwait’s opposition has been demanding dissolution of the parliament, claiming emir introduced the new legislation only to get a rubber-stamping parliament.Kuwait – a member of OPEC oil cartel – has avoided the turbulence of the Arab Spring, largely because of political and military assistance from the US. Kuwait, one of Washington’s closest allies in the Gulf and home to eight American military bases, has harshly suppressed pro-democracy mass rallies. Police frequently use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse demonstrations that are deemed illegal in the country. … Read More
Judge strikes down high-tech workers’ lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to tamp down workers’ wages and prevent the loss of their best engineers during a multiyear conspiracy broken up by government regulators.U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., issued a ruling Friday concluding that the companies’ alleged collusion may have affected workers in too many different ways to justify lumping the individual claims together. She denied the request to certify workers’ lawsuits as a class action and collectively seek damages on behalf of tens of thousands of employees.The allegations will be more difficult to pursue if they can’t be united in a single lawsuit. Koh, though, will allow the workers’ lawyers to submit additional evidence that they have been collecting to persuade her that the lawsuit still merits class certification.”Plaintiffs appreciate the court’s thorough consideration of the evidence and are prepared to address the court’s concerns fully in a renewed motion,” employee attorney Kelly Dermody wrote in a Friday email.Continue Reading… … Read More
Investigators launch probe into price-fixing of German beer
German antitrust authorities said on Monday that they had opened an investigation against several brewers over the suspected price fixing of beer. The Federal Cartel Office “is investigating several breweries,” a spokeswoman for the office told AFP, confirming a report in Focus news…
The hoax at the bottom of Autism and Alzheimer’s
For the medical cartel, Autism and Alzheimer’s are big, big business. … Read More
Cyberwar in the Underworld: Anonymous Versus Los Zetas in Mexico
This article explores the online clash between the hacker group, Anonymous, and the Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas. This type of cyberwar was unique: it was an incident where two clandestine non-state groups used the … … Read More
Guatemala checking Mexico drug lord death
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