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In its annual report on human rights, the U.S. State Department has highlighted human rights violations in several developing countries, including Yemen.
Entitled, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” the report observed numerous violations, including killings, fatal shootings, violence, detentions, prison torture, corruption, declining freedom of press and violence against women.
According to the report, Yemeni security authorities employed prison torture in a way running counter to both Islamic Sharia and Yemeni law. “Members of the Political Security Office and... Read more
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The Guardian - UK
16 November 2005
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Police officer cleared of moto
Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent
Wednesday November 16, 2005
The Guardian
A police officer was cleared yesterday of killing a driver who died moments after being stopped by police. But two other officers could face a retrial after a jury failed to reach verdicts. Constable Paul Summerville, 25, of Thames Valley police, was found not guilty of the manslaughter of Robin Goodenough, 26, and of assault causing him actual bodily harm.
But after almost a week of deliberations, the jury told the judge that it could not agree verdicts on the same charges against officers, PCs Robin Shane, 31, and John Shatford, 32. All three denied the charges.
Mr Goodenough, from Barton, Oxford, died after an encounter with police two years ago. During the five-week trial at the Old Bailey, the court heard the three officers were part of a squad of nine in a police van on September 27 2003. They spotted Mr Goodenough, disqualified from driving earlier that day, driving his sister's car.
Aftab Jafferjee, prosecuting, claimed the three were involved when Mr Goodenough was punched in the face and pulled out of the car so violently he landed on his chin, dislodging his teeth, and fracturing his jaw. He swallowed so much blood he could not breathe properly. An ambulance was called, but it was too late. Mr Jafferjee said his heart had been sensitised by an addiction to inhaling lighter fuel.
The defendants told the court they had acted within the law to detain a suspect whom they thought was resisting arrest, and that they had thought he might reach for a weapon.
Mr Justice Adrian Fulford gave the prosecution two weeks to consider a retrial of Mr Shane and Mr Shatford.
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