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12 more expats arrested in Kuwait for engaging in prostitution
Fake police officer arrested after being found guilty of robbing people
Published: August 29, 2022 18:04
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor
Gulf News
Dubai: Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior has arrested 12 more ex-pats for engaging in prostitution, as part of its ongoing crack down, local media reported.
Prostitution in Kuwait is illegal and most of those engaged in the trade are foreign nationals. Authorities usually deport prostitutes or make them sign a “good conduct pledge” before release.
Article 201 of Kuwait’s criminal code prohibits forced prostitution; prescribed penalties include imprisonment of up to five years or a fine for the forced prostitution of adults, and seven years’ imprisonment and a fine prescribed for the forced prostitution of minors under 18 years of age.
Meanwhile in Ahmadi, a fake police officer has been arrested after being found guilty of robbing people. Also in the same area, a man who dressed in women’s clothes was arrested in a shopping mall while trying to steal an item from a jewellery store.
Ahmadi, Kuwait
India: Bilkis Bano's rapists are freed, so why the silence?
Our constitution promises justice to all but the woman has been betrayed by the system
Published: August 25, 2022 09:09
Jyotsna Mohan, Special to Gulf News
Women's organisations protest against the remission of the sentence given to the convicts of Bilkis Bano's case by the
Gujarat government, at Dadar, in Mumbai on Tuesday. Such protests have been few and far between. Image Credit: ANI
The silence is stark in a society whose fabric has been ripped inch by disturbing inch in the past few years to increasingly expose it as vacant. Ordinarily, even the most hard hearted would hang their heads in shame but where it matters, there is just a sliver of a murmur. And then, business as usual as though what they don’t say they don’t see.
But they saw, when in 2002 a five months pregnant Bilkis Bano was gang-raped by 11 men — her neighbours. They also saw when Bilkis’s own mother and sisters were gang-raped in front of her. Then her final defeat, her three- year- old daughter’s head was killed. They saw this too.
The men thought along with seven dead bodies they had left another lifeless but Bilkis survived, being alive though is different. Yet we are quiet.
As the country was celebrating 75 years of its independence, from the ramparts of the Red Fort the Prime Minister urged the nation to take a pledge to respect and support ‘nari shakti.’
At the same time these eleven men- convicted rapists and murderers were allowed to walk free by the Gujarat government.
Like some Roman gladiators returned victorious, the men were garlanded and sweets were stuffed in their mouth. Defending the indefensible is now an ideological divide, the good and the bad that we are taught as a primary life lesson has been buried somewhere deep, not unlike our conscience.
These are men who killed a child so young, so brutally, one who was perhaps still peaking wondrously at a the world from behind her mother’s shelter or sitting in her lap as she was when she plucked away by these men. She is dead and they are free. How is this justice for justice must also be seen to be done.
The messaging is not complex. At every turn minorities are reminded, some are more equal than others and it is not them.
There is also election season in the mix which is why barring the Congress most other parties have chosen to look the other way.
“The trauma of the past 20 years washed over me again when I heard that the 11 convicted men who devastated my family and life and took my three-year-old daughter away from me have walked free … Today, I can say only this, how can justice for any woman end like this?”
Bilkis Bano put faith in a system even when these men were allowed parole for lame reasons and we are still silent.
The convicts in Bilkis Bano case being offered sweets after their release
Especially the women. What stops leaders in positions of power to speak up, we recently welcomed a woman president with much fanfare. Are they not moved at her plight? How much more does Bilkis have to lose for them to raise a voice?
These same leaders are more vocal over a bar in Goa than when rapists and murderers walk out through the back door under questionable legality.
The men were granted freedom through the outdated 1992 remission policy, the 2014 policy outrightly disallows remission for rapists and murderers.
Women not standing for each other is perhaps the biggest travesty. Sisters, wives and daughters are universal, humanity surely has some last dregs left or have we become so weak?
In a country where rape is underreported, where a victim is haunted more by the process than the crime and where families choosing silence over a snickering constable at the local police thana are not cowards, this move ‘has set a very bad precedent’ says Justice U.D. Salvi, the former Bombay High Court judge who had convicted the eleven men.
‘If you don’t consider the theory of retribution, apply the theory of reformation.
Has there been reformation? Have they felt remorse? I don’t think so.’
- Justice U.D. Salvi
10 years ago a nation was shaken out of its hubris when a 23- year-old medical student was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi.
Search this blog for "Delhi bus" for a horrifying list of stories of murder, rape, gang rape committed by Hindu men against Indian girls. Twitter contains millions of listings for Indian men who claim to be 'proud Indians'. There are almost no women making such claims.
There was outrage, candle marches and street protests with a promise that in one of the most unsafe countries for women in the world, enough was enough. The country came together to collectively call for the rapists to be hanged.
This time the streets are crowded yet empty and outrage is limited to the usual suspects. How quickly has that promise made after Nirbhaya’s death been forgotten or was it always conditional, seen through religious blinkers that make one woman more precious than the other? The candle it seems burnt out long ago.
In 2015 a documentary on Nirbhaya was banned after the then Home Minister said he was ‘upset seeing the film,’ a ruling politician, a woman was worried how it would portray India globally and the Delhi police felt it would create fear in a city.
If a documentary bothered us, imagine Bilkis’s plight, living in shadows for twenty years only to be told she has no place to hide.
Our constitution promises justice to all and Bilkis has been betrayed. Again. Those who speak up, need to make their voice heard even louder to shatter the wall of silence. Is Bilkis Bano not India’s daughter?
Jyotsna Mohan
@jyotsnamohan
Jyotsna Mohan is the author of the investigative book ‘Stoned, Shamed, Depressed’. She was also a journalist with NDTV for 15 years.
Muslim man axes Jewish roommate’s skull, burns face off
August 29, 2022
Muslim man axes Jewish roommate’s skull, burns face off. Axe seized from attempted terrorist. (Israel police)
Worried family members asked the murderer if he had seen his roommate.
By Debbie Reiss,
World Israel News
A 34-year-old Jewish man was axed to death by his Muslim roommate before having his face burned off in a commune in north-central France, an antisemitism monitoring group said on Monday.
The victim, identified as Eyal Haddad, was living in a commune in Seine-et-Marne, the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) said. Originally from Djerba, Tunisia, Haddad’s family now live in Beersheba in southern Israel.
According to BNVCA, the murderer, identified as Baha Deridi, was owed 100 euros by Haddad who did not pay him back. Deridi “smashed his victim’s skull with an ax, then he burned his face and even began to bury the body,” on August 20, the group said in a statement.
After he was not contactable for several days, Haddad’s family started to worry about him. Family members asked Deridi if he had seen his roommate. Deridi then turned himself in to police and confessed to the murder.
Haddad’s body, partially mutilated, was retrieved from a hole dug in an open field in Longpré-le-Sec.
Deridi admitted that he had killed Haddad because he was Jewish, the statement said.
The murder received minimal media attention and BNVCA said it was concerned by “the silence surrounding this case,” especially in light of other antisemitic murders in the country, including that of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman beaten to death in her apartment in April 2017.
Police said it was investigating whether the murder was the result of a dispute between the roommates. The antisemitism monitoring group urged authorities to prioritize the case and “examine its antisemitic character.”
Yonathan Arfi, president of the Crif Jewish umbrella organization in France, similarly called on French police to consider “the possibility of the aggravating factor of antisemitism.”
I thought he admitted to killing him because he was Jewish. Do the police refuse to believe him? Are the police and/or media covering up another Muslim act of madness?
Israel attacked ‘countless’ nuclear targets in Iran’s ‘heartland,’
says former Mossad chief
Israel attacked ‘countless’ nuclear targets in Iran’s ‘heartland,’ says former Mossad chief.
Former Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen (Flash90)
Yossi Cohen said Tehran was “lying to the whole world” about its nuclear ambitions.
By Debbie Reiss,
World Israel News
August 29, 2022
Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen on Monday said that under his tenure Israel had carried out “countless operations” in the heart of Iran against its nuclear program, adding that the Islamic Republic was “lying to the whole world” when it said its program was for peaceful purposes.
“During my term as Mossad director, countless operations were conducted against Iran’s nuclear program,” he said to an audience of 1,500 Jewish leaders at a World Zionist Organization anniversary event in Basel.
“Without going into too many details, I can tell you the Mossad had many successes in the fight against Iran’s nuclear program,” Cohen said. “We operated around the world and on Iranian soil itself, in the very heartland of the ayatollahs.”
“The Iranian regime is lying to the whole world and we proved it when we brought thousands of documents from the Iranian archives, documents that proved that the Iranians lied to the IAEA,” he said, referring to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
“This regime calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and wiping it off of the map. We can never allow a regime that calls for our destruction to get its finger on the nuclear trigger,” he said.
“Iran seeks to encircle Israel, from Gaza in the south to Lebanon and Syria in the north. It funds, trains and arms terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, enabling them to shoot thousands of rockets at Israel’s civilian population,” Cohen said.
“This fanatical regime must never obtain the ability to accelerate its weapon of mass destruction that would be used against the Jewish state,” he added.
Cohen’s successor, Mossad director David Barnea, was last week quoted in Hebrew media outlets as saying the emerging nuclear deal is a “strategic disaster.”
“The agreement is a bad deal that gives Iran a license to manufacture a bomb,” Barnea reportedly said.
“The Mossad is committed to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The agreement does not apply to Israel, nor does the freedom of action to continue operating.”
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