The Legal Suit Against President Hosni Mubarka
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is being sued by three lawyers in connection with a case concerning the disappearance of a Coptic priest’s wife. And no, it is not because there was some illicit liaison between the president and this lady.
Why President Hosni Mubarak Is Being Sued
In July, Kamelia Shehata Zakher, [...]
Why The Debate Over Mixed Marriages In The UAE?
As the government is still reviewing its proposed law to regulate the marriage of Emirati men to foreign women, others are engaged in a debate on the issue. The debate seems to have been sparked off by Dubai’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz Haddad, who gave his [...]
The Guessing Game Continues
Blogosphere has been busy speculating the identities of the 2 England footballers who obtained super-injunctions recently to protect their privacy. Now a third England footballer has joined them in getting a sujper-injunction. And critics continue to protest that super-injunctions are crippling a free press and preventing freedom of speech.
The Third Super-Injunction
High Court judge [...]
Forsake All for Mistress
The Reverend Peter Ballard, a priest of the Church of England in Blackburn, stunned his congregation with his decision to leave his wife and their two children for his already-married personal secretary. This decision was made after the affair with his mistress, a mother of two, was discovered. For his extramarital affair, Reverend [...]
Rachel Uchitel In Pole Position Among His 20-Odd Mistresses For The Race To Get Tiger Woods Back
Finally it’s all over. Long suffering and publicly humiliated Elin Nordegren has offically ended her marriage to Tiger Woods. And while the ink has barely dried up on the divorce document that makes TIger Woods a free man, former Swedish mistress [...]
Two More Footballers Granted Super-Injunction
Remember John Terry, ex-England football team captain who got a super-injunction to prevent newspapers from reporting about his affair with Vanessa Perroncel, ex-girlfriend of Wayne Bridge, his best friend and ex-colleague at Chealsea FC? Well, a court subsequently lifted that super-injuction, and the press went ballistic on the news of John Terry’s [...]
What Is The Scale Of The Problem?
The usual impression one has of people being traded for sex in western countries is that the victims are usually young foreign women from an undeveloped country who have been trafficked into a western country and made to work as prostitutes. Sometimes the victims may be foreign children. However, UK [...]
Is It A Murder Of Baby?
The Malaysian Cabinet recently announced that all cases of abandoned babies in the country will be classified as murder. Now in an attempt to clarify the official position of the government, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that the police must investigate every case of baby abandonment before a [...]
The Case Of Non-Consensual Sex In New Jersey
An appellate court in New Jersey, USA, has reversed a judgment of a lower court in New Jersey. The case concerns a Muslim couple who had migrated from Morocco to New Jersey a month after their arranged marriage in July 2008, when the wife was only 17. The wife’s [...]
Scale Of Honor-Based Abuse In UK
Jasvinder Sanghera, director of support group Karma Nirvana, has written to UK’s prime minister “in the hope that we as a country will work hard to tackle and prosecute perpetrators (of honor-based abuse)”. Karma Nirvana, a support group for victims of forced marriages and honor-based abuse, received more than 400 calls [...]
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