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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Crime &amp; Legal</title>
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		<title>China courts embrace social media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s notoriously opaque courts have suddenly embraced social media to provide a window into their proceedings, to boost a skeptical public&#8217;s confidence in the country&#8217;s Communist Party-controlled legal system. Nearly 1,000 Chinese courts have set up microblog accounts. One in central China released a blow-by-blow account of a murder appeal last week, complete with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh MP sentenced to death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bangladesh opposition member of parliament was sentenced to death Tuesday for war crimes, becoming the first lawmaker to be convicted for offenses committed during the 1971 war of independence. Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was &#8220;found guilty of nine charges of war crimes, including genocide&#8221; and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia central bank subsidiary in Hussein link</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of Australia on Monday admitted that staffers from a subsidiary had visited Iraq at the height of U.N. sanctions after it was accused of attempting to strike an illegal deal with Saddam Hussein. A joint investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and Fairfax Media said secret files showed officials from the central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmaker charged over pro-Pyongyang attack plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Korean prosecutors indicted a leftwing lawmaker Thursday on charges that he was plotting a pro-North Korea rebellion to overthrow the government, saying his plan posed a &#8220;grave&#8221; national security threat. Former lawmaker Lee Seok-ki, from the small United Progressive Party, was arrested by South Korea&#8217;s spy agency this month for allegedly discussing launching strikes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand deports &#8216;drug lord&#8217; to U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American described as a &#8220;leading drug lord&#8221; with a network spanning Asia and the United States was sent to the U.S. on a chartered plane following his arrest in Thailand, police said Friday. Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48, was handed to agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration at Bangkok&#8217;s Don Meaung Airport, Deputy National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wealthy guru&#8217;s arrest on teen sex assault charges divides India</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[chlild abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men lay prostrate on the floor in front of the elevated seat of their guru: the man they call Asaram Bapu. Pictures of his avuncular face, with its flowing white beard, hang everywhere in his sprawling 12-hectare ashram in Motera, western India.]]></description>
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		<title>Outcry as China executes vendor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China on Wednesday executed a street food vendor who stabbed two officials following a street dispute, provoking outrage online. The Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Xia Junfeng, who murdered two &#8220;city management&#8221; officials after a dispute over his street stall in 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People&#8217;s court in northeast China said in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police probe deaths of girls in washing machine: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in eastern China were investigating the mysterious deaths of two young sisters found in a bloody washing machine over the weekend, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Local police in Jiangxi province have ruled out murder in the case, the Global Times newspaper said, citing the official Xinhua News Agency. Police confirmed that the girls died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore match-fixing &#8216;biggest yet&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A soccer match-fixing ring based in Singapore was the world&#8217;s &#8220;largest and most aggressive&#8221; such operation, the Interpol chief said in remarks published Tuesday after the arrest of the group&#8217;s suspected mastermind. International Criminal Police Organization Secretary-General Ronald Noble hailed the arrest in Singapore last week of 14 suspects. &#8220;I&#8217;m confident that Singapore law enforcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Bo to appeal life sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai will appeal his conviction and life sentence for corruption, a lawyer close to the case said Monday, adding further drama to the high-profile trial. Bo, the key figure in China&#8217;s biggest political scandal in decades, remained unusually defiant during the sensational court proceedings. &#8220;He informed the court . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bo sentenced to life in prison over corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ousted Chinese Communist Party heavyweight Bo Xilai gets life in prison for corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power as the fallen star's heavily publicized trial concludes.]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Facebook kidnap gang busted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities on Saturday broke up a gang using a female member to lure youngsters through Facebook and telephone calls and then kidnapping them for ransom, police said. The gang, which included a lawyer, his wife, the son of a policeman and four others, was active in the industrial town of Gujranwala in central Punjab province [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police file charges in Mumbai rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in Mumbai have filed charges against four men and a juvenile in the gang rape of a photojournalist that fueled further debate about women&#8217;s safety after a fatal assault in New Delhi sparked mass protests. The 600-page charge sheet cites 86 witnesses and DNA evidence, the Press Trust of India reported Thursday. A separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore arrests 14 over match-fixing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen people believed to be members of an organized crime ring involved in football match-fixing activities have been arrested in police raids across Singapore, authorities said Wednesday. The Singapore Police Force and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said in a joint statement the 12 men and two women were nabbed in a 12-hour operation that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong couple jailed for &#8216;inhumane&#8217; abuse of Indonesian maid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Hong Kong couple have been jailed for a shocking string of attacks on their Indonesian domestic helper, including burning her with an iron and beating her with a bike chain. Tai Chi-wai, 42, and his wife, Catherine Au, subjected their former maid, Kartika Puspitasari, to a two-year campaign of violence and humiliation, labeled &#8220;cruel&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging activist inspires younger generation with doggedness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Chinese police beat elderly former professor Sun Wenguang so badly they broke four ribs, it was just part of the price he has paid for a lifetime defying authority. The white-haired, soft-spoken Sun first went to prison nearly 50 years ago and is now one of China&#8217;s oldest activists, admired by the younger generation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Bangladesh court sentences Islamist to hang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangladesh&#8217;s Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced a senior Islamist leader to death for mass murder, toughening the sentence originally handed down by the country&#8217;s war crimes tribunal and sparking fresh violence. Abdul Quader Molla, 65, the fourth-highest leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, had been given a life sentence in February by Bangladesh&#8217;s International Crimes Tribunal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porters hacked to death by PNG bandits in attack on Aussie, N.Z. trekkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of Australian and New Zealand trekkers who were brutally attacked by bandits in Papua New Guinea told Thursday of their harrowing ordeal and horror as two porters were butchered. The eight tourists were in their tents on the remote jungle-clad Black Cat Track, in the lawless Pacific nation&#8217;s northern Morobe province, when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China rail scandal nets new suspect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A businesswoman linked to China&#8217;s disgraced Railway Minister Liu Zhijun faces charges of illegal business activities worth 180 billion yuan (&#36;29 billion), state-run media said Monday, indicating far vaster industry corruption than previously revealed. Ding Shumiao will face trial in Beijing for bribery and illegal business activities after she &#8220;intervened in bidding for dozens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China graft official drowned in probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese official was allegedly drowned by investigators who stripped him naked and held him down in a bathtub as they attempted to extort a confession of corruption, state-run media reported Wednesday. Yu Qiyi, 42, was held down by investigators in a tub full of &#8220;icy water&#8221; several times after his questioning in April failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studious victim had high hopes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 23-year-old rape victim whose assault and death shook India and captured the attention of the world was the daughter of an airport baggage handler who was studying hard and who harbored big ambitions. She enrolled four years ago on a physiotherapy course in Dehradun, a city in the foothills of the Himalayas, and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman boils up husband&#8217;s corpse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman in eastern China murdered her husband and boiled the corpse to cover her tracks after he abused her and her daughter, a report said Saturday. The woman drugged the man, her second husband, and tortured him for three days in June by withholding food and water and beating him, causing his death, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong Un&#8217;s ex reportedly executed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&#8217;s former girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, a South Korean paper has reported. The Chosun Ilbo daily on Thursday quoted sources in China as saying singer Hyon Song Wol was arrested along with 11 others on Aug. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-BBC host Harris charged in U.K.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rolf Harris, an Australian entertainer, was charged as part of a U.K. police probe into sexual-assault allegations. Harris, 83, faces nine counts of indecent assault with girls as young as 14 and four offenses of making indecent images of children, the Metropolitan Police Service said in an emailed statement Friday. The alleged assaults took place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dotcom blasts N.Z. police cover-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom accused New Zealand police of selectively applying the law Friday after they opted not to prosecute intelligence officials who illegally spied on him. Police reviewed the actions of the Government Communications Security Bureau after it was revealed last year that the agency unlawfully spied on Dotcom before his arrest for alleged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese general&#8217;s son on trial for gang rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The son of a Chinese general went on trial Wednesday over his involvement in an alleged gang rape, state media said, in a case that sparked public outrage. Li Tianyi is among five men who allegedly gang-raped a woman in a Beijing hotel in February, state-run Xinhua News Agency said, the latest allegation against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Briton arrested after admitting illegally gathering private data about Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Public Security Ministry said the British founder of a consultancy serving multinational companies confessed to illegally obtaining and selling private data on Chinese citizens. Peter Humphrey, founder of ChinaWhys, and his wife, Yingzeng Yu, a U.S. citizen, have &#8220;expressed extreme regret for their actions, and have apologized to the Chinese government,&#8221; the ministry said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top India court slams rape acquittals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India&#8217;s top court has criticized the large number of rape cases that end in acquittal, amid renewed outrage over violence against women after the gang-rape of a photographer. The Supreme Court questioned the reason for the high number of acquittals during a Monday hearing, adding that the situation &#8220;is going from bad to worse.&#8221; &#8220;What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korean gulag survivors tell U.N. investigators of rights abuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One by one they came, taking seats next to a United Nations flag and stating their names for the record. Some kept calm. Some wept. One, as he spoke, used his left hand to clamp his trembling right hand to the table. They told stories about North Korea&#8217;s brutal network of criminal detention and political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bo Xilai&#8217;s bribery trial begins with China courts in spotlight</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trial of former Politburo member Bo Xilai over bribery and embezzlement begings, with China's judiciary as much in the spotlight as the man at the center of the country's most politically charged case in 30 years.]]></description>
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