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  • Police raped woman while her children slept, court told
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ben Mitchell
    Two police constables called to assist a drunken woman who had been attacked outside a nightclub drove her home and raped and indecently assaulted her, a court heard yesterday.
    Winchester Crown Court heard how PC Mark Witcher and PC Andrew Lang performed what they called a "spit roast" on the woman. This involved one officer having sex with her while she was forced to perform a sex act on the other.
    The victim, who cannot be named, described how the officers laughed at (…)

  • Indymedia: the tale of the servers ’nobody’ seized
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Lettice ( john.lettice at theregister.co.uk )
    Nobody seized Indymedia’s servers, apparently. On the 7th October hosting company Rackspace ’acted in compliance’ with a court order and two servers belonging to Indymedia were removed from Rackspace’s premises in London.
    But the denials of involvement roll in, the latest coming from UK Home Office minister Caroline Flint, who in answer to Parliamentary questions said: "I can confirm that no UK law enforcement agencies were involved (…)

  • Indymedia to U.S., U.K., Swiss and Italian Authorities: "Hands Off Our Websites"
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Evidence is beginning to mount that the authorities of at least four countries (Switzerland, Italy, U.K. and U.S.A.) are involved in last week’s seizure of two of Indymedia’s servers that brought down more than 20 of the Indymedia network’s web sites and several internet radio streams. Indymedia has yet to receive any official statement or information about what the order entailed or why it was issued.
    An FBI spokesperson, Joe Parris, confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the FBI issued a (…)

  • Intelligence Matters
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    I am so glad our intelligence was working two months before 9/11? No wonder we didn’t believe the advance warnings, we were too busy working with other governments to keep our president safe from terrorists who might use planes packed with explosives and crash them into buildings in Genoa. Our intelligence didn’t fail, they were just too busy with other "stuff". One does not need to be an investigative reporter, a deep thinker, or sherlock holmes to figure this one out.
    G8 summit death (…)

  • Italians may make ’small doses’ of torture legal
    24 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Torture may be acceptable provided it is administered in small doses, says a
    bill under discussion in the Italian parliament that has outraged human
    rights organisations.
    The Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed an amendment, tabled by the
    far-right Northern League, to the bill which opposition MPs denounced as a
    green light to "limited" torture but which government supporters said was
    essential for police.
    The amendment says violence and threats must be used repeatedly to qualify (…)

  • G8 : Open Wounds
    15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    From an outside perspective, Genoa is still very much linked to the bloody G8 summit from 2001. In the following interview, which was conducted by the publishers of "Genoa etc." [www.etc-publications.com], Enrica Bartesaghi talks about her project to support the victims of the G8 summit in correlation with the city’s transformation into the European Capital of Culture.
    How do you remember the G8-meeting?
    Genoa and the G8 was, and still is, an open wound for me both as a mother and as an (…)