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Maldives quashes flogging of teenager for premarital sex
AFP, Published on 22/08/2013
» A Maldivian court has overturned a public flogging sentence on a 15-year-old girl, whose conviction for premarital sex sparked international outrage and focused attention on the holiday island's treatment of women.
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Alleged rape victim in Maldives 'to be flogged'
AFP, Published on 27/02/2013
» A Maldives court has sentenced a 15-year-old alleged rape victim to 100 lashes and eight months under house arrest after she admitted having had premarital sex in a separate incident, an official said Wednesday.
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Maldives government to appeal flogging of rape victim
AFP, Published on 28/02/2013
» The Maldivian government said Thursday it would seek to overturn a court decision to publicly flog a 15-year-old rape victim convicted of having premarital sex.
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Shooting-victim El-Halabi set to box for world title
AFP, Published on 07/11/2012
» Germany's former boxing world champion Rola El-Halabi is set to fulfil her dream in January to box again, nearly two years after she was gunned down by her stepfather in a vicious attack.
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Hudson's brother-in-law gets life in family killings
AFP, Published on 25/07/2012
» Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson wiped away tears as her brother-in-law was sentenced to life in prison by a judge in Illinois on Tuesday for slaying her mother, brother and young nephew in 2008.
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Obama's transgender nanny remembers 'little Barry'
AFP, Published on 11/03/2012
» A transgender Indonesian man who shot to fame after it emerged he had worked as Barack Obama's nanny in the late 1960s wants nothing from "little Barry" but to meet him again some day.
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