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10  theSun | FRIDAY JULY 31 2009

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Iran police clash with protesters
on mourning day
China makes public
TEHERAN: Riot police used tear gas and batons to break
up a demonstration in Teheran yesterday and clashed
with mourners at a defiant graveside commemoration
for people killed in election violence, witnesses said. Po-
lice moved in as crowds massed around a major open-air
prayer venue in central Teheran. They used tear gas and
batons against thousands of protesters marching on Vali
Abiding
Times:
list of Uighur fugitives
BEIJING: China has made public a
list of names and photographs of 15
mostly Uighurs, have been detained in
an ensuing government crackdown.
Beijing does not want to lose its grip
on a vast territory that borders Russia,
Asr Street who were shouting “Death to the dictator!”, Acting Uighurs wanted for their roles in riot- The notice said leniency would be Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
“Free the political prisoners!” and slogans in support upon ing which killed almost 200 people shown to those who turned themselves Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and
of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Clashes had internal in the Muslim region of Xinjiang this in within 10 days and that the punish- India. It has abundant oil reserves and
erupted earlier at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery south month. ment would be reduced for those who is China’s largest natural gas-produc-
of Teheran, where hundreds of police with batons and security The Public Security Bureau of made “great contributions”. ing region. Uighurs, a Turkic people
belts beat some members of a 2,000-strong crowd who pg 14 regional capital Urumqi issued a no- “Those refusing to surrender will who are largely Muslim and share
hurled stones at security forces, witnesses said. – AFP tice urging the first batch of fugitives be dealt with severely in accordance linguistic and cultural bonds with
“not to hope that they would be lucky with the law,” the notice said. The Central Asia, make up almost half of
Extremists flee after deadly assault enough to get away with it”, state
media reported yesterday.
government also offered rewards to
the public who report on rioters.
Xinjiang’s 20 million people.
The government has blamed the
by Nigerian forces In Xinjiang’s worst ethnic violence In recent days, 253 more people killings on exiled Uighurs seeking
MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Nigerian forces yesterday put in decades, Uighur rioters attacked have been detained after being turned independence, especially Rebiya Ka-
members of an extremist sect to flight in a brutal all-out majority Han Chinese in Urumqi in by “local residents of different eth- deer, an activist now living in exile in
assault on their northern stronghold after an uprising led on July 5 after taking to the streets nic groups”, state media said. the United States. Kadeer has denied
to clashes that have left hundreds dead. Nigerian troops to protest against attacks on Uighur Xinjiang has long been a tightly the accusations.
raided the headquarters of the self-styled Taliban sect in the workers at a factory in south China controlled hotbed of ethnic tensions, Rebiya told reporters in Tokyo
northern city of Maiduguri, killing some 200 followers along in June which left two Uighurs dead. fostered by an economic gap between on Wednesday that nearly 10,000
with its deputy leader. “We have taken over their enclave, Hans in Urumqi sought revenge two many Uighurs and Han Chinese, Uighurs involved in the riots went
they are on the run and we are going after them,” Col Ben days later. government controls on religion and missing in one night and called for
Ahonotu, the operation’s commander, told AFP of the raid The violence left 197 people dead, culture and an influx of Han migrants an international investigation. China
in the Borno state capital. A police spokesman said 180 mostly Han Chinese, and wounded who now are the majority in the capi- has condemned her visit to Tokyo.
“kidnapped” women and children were rescued. – AFP more than 1,600. About 1,000 people, tal, Urumqi. – Reuters

Baby cut from murdered


mother’s womb found alive
CONCORD (New Hampshire): Police found alive a baby
girl who was cut from her mother’s womb and arrested
two people in connection with the woman’s murder,
ABC TV reported yesterday. The infant’s mother, 23-year-
old Darlene Haynes, was found dead and wrapped in
bedsheets in her Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment.
The body had a large cut in her abdomen and a post- Fishing
mortem showed that the foetus was missing. Haynes boats lie at
had been eight months pregnant. Police detained a anchor after
woman identified as Julie Corey, 35 and a man, who fishermen
were found with the child in Plymouth, New Hampshire. stopped
Corey was charged as a fugitive from justice. – dpa sailing out at
Geojin port
in Goseong,
Police warn teenagers following the
on paid dates they risk jail seizure of a
HONGKONG: Police have warned teenagers they risk being South Korean
jailed for soliciting for prostitution if they arrange to go on boat by
paid dates over the internet, the South China Morning Post North Korea
newspaper said yesterday. John Lee Ka-chiu, police director yesterday.
of crime and security, said teenagers could be fined up to

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HK$10,000 (RM4,487) and be jailed for six months. “Using
a website or chat room to seek or offer sexual services is
against the law.” He was commenting on the growing trend of
“compensated dating” where teenagers provide companion-
ship and sex to men in return for gifts and money. – dpa Stray South Korea fishing boat held in North
SEOUL: North Korea towed and its crew of four to return, venturing into the South and
a South Korean fishing boat but officials said they have so capturing the ship,” he said.
to one of its ports yesterday far had no reply. The news gave a lift to
after the vessel inadvertently The boat appears to have South Korean defence com-
strayed into its territorial wa- strayed across the border on pany shares but otherwise
ters, a South Korean military the east coast of the peninsula financial markets largely
official said. The incident, where it was intercepted by a ignored the latest potential
probably the result of a North Korean patrol boat, the rift in relations, with analysts
broken navigational system, military official said. saying investors were un-
comes at a time of chilling Earlier news reports said likely to be fazed by anything
relations between the two the boat had been captured less than direct military con-
and an increasingly militant by a North Korean patrol, but frontation. North Korea has
North that analysts say is in an official with the South’s become even more isolated
the midst of a sensitive proc- Office of the Joint Chiefs of by the international commu-
ess of resolving the leader- Staff said the North’s vessel nity in recent months after
ship succession in Asia’s only never crossed the border into a series of missile launches
communist dynasty. the South. and its second nuclear test
The South has asked its “It is not likely a case which resulted in tighter UN
neighbour to allow the vessel of a North Korean vessel sanctions. – Reuters

Custody deal reached for MJ’s children: Reports


LOS ANGELES: A custody deal Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie that Rowe, a former nurse at
has been struck for Michael Rowe, who reportedly said she Jackson’s dermatologist’s of-
Jackson’s children that would might fight for custody of her fice, is their mother.
see their grandmother retain two biological children, “will re- “In fact, as a central part of
permanent custody and the tain her parental rights but she the agreement, they’ll begin to
biological mother of the two agrees not to make a claim for have a relationship with her,
eldest keep parental rights, US custody”, NBC News reported. now that their father is dead,” it
media reported yesterday. Rowe will obtain visitation said, adding a child psychologist
Under the agreement, rights for Prince and Paris but would supervise the process.
Katherine Jackson “would get no money beyond the spousal Although the deal has not
permanent custody of Michael’s agreement already in place, been made public, ABC said all
kids – Prince (Michael, 12), Paris reportedly worth some US$8.5 parties implicated in the custo-
(11) and Blanket” (Prince Michael million (RM30 million), NBC said. dy agreement would appear in
II, seven), ABC News reported. Quoting unnamed sources, a Los Angeles Court next week
Blanket’s mother has never the television network said the and the judge was expected to
been identified. two older children now know approve the deal. – AFP

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