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The Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive in his home for more than a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday on an expanded indictment charging him with 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape, among other crimes. The charges returned Friday by a grand jury against Ariel Castro expanded on a 329-count indictment filed earlier that covered only part of the time frame of the alleged crimes. He previously pleaded not guilty to that indictment. Castro, 53, has been jailed since his May 6 arrest.

Packs of young people rampaged through Hollywood, knocked down people and stole cellphones and other items before a police sweep halted the marauding and arrested a dozen people, police said Wednesday.
Calls began coming in at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday that youths were robbing people and stealing T-shirts and other goods from businesses, mainly on Hollywood Boulevard. Fifteen to 20 young men and women were "attacking victims and taking property. Some people may have been knocked down or punched". No serious injuries were reported.
As many as 40 people may have been involved splitting into smaller groups and reforming as they robbed people. It was believed the youths took advantage of a redeployment of police to Los Angeles' Crenshaw District where violence had broken out the previous night over the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.

A Chinese whistleblower who spent his free time embarrassing communist party officials by posting pictures of their luxury cars on the Internet, has been blinded with acid and had two of his fingers hacked off. Li Jianxin, 47, is in hospital after being attacked earlier this month. His car was rammed from behind and he was allegedly taken by three men to a remote industrial park in the southern city of Huizhou, where they doused him with acid and hacked at him with knives.
A woman in a worker's dormitory nearby found Li lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Li had posted dozens of reports of corruption on a popular local Internet forum.

A prominent Pakistani Taliban commander has written a letter to a teenage girl shot in the head by the group, expressing regrets that he didn't warn her before the assassination attempt that propelled her activism to the international stage. The letter from Adnan Rasheed, however, didn't apologize for the October attack that left Malala Yousafzai gravely wounded. Rasheeed, who has close relations with Taliban leaders, only said that he found the shooting "shocking" and wished it hadn't happened.
Rasheed said he would leave it up to God to decide whether the outspoken activist for girls' education should have been targeted. "You have said in your speech yesterday that pen is mightier than sword. So they attacked you for your sword not for your books or school."

Labels: Communications, Human Relations, World News

posted by Pieface @ Friday, July 19, 2013