Aiyana Jones killing turns spotlight on a nation hooked on reality TV

originally published by: Times Online
22nd May 2010

When police scooped up the limp body of Aiyana Jones last Sunday night they promised her father that she would be all right. They were wrong. She was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital, the victim of a police Swat team being filmed for a reality TV show.

Miss Jones went to sleep for the last time under the front window of her parents’ flat on Detroit’s violent and impoverished east side. A police bullet killed her later that night. The porch outside is now festooned with flowers, teddy bears and “you will be missed” balloons.

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Clegg does u-turn on McKinnon extradition

originally published by: THINQ.co.uk
26th May 2010

In a dramatic U-turn, Nick Clegg yesterday said the Government may have no power to prevent the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.

The Liberal Democrat leader’s comments came in a radio interview on Five Live. It’s the first time Clegg has waded in on the case since becoming Deputy Prime Minister at the recent general election.

His comments came as a shock to supporters of the computer hacker, who had been heartened by the recent adjournment of extradition hearings.

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Returned asylum seekers killed or jailed

originally published by: ABC News
19th May 2010

Refugee advocates say at least nine asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka by the Howard government were killed and those sent back in past year have been held in police custody and some assaulted.

Australia has suspended its processing of Sri Lankan asylum seekers pending a review of conditions in Sri Lanka. Immigration Minister Chris Evans says the Federal Government has a “major problem” returning asylum seekers who have been involved with the Tamil Tigers.

Phil Glendenning, the director of the Catholic Church’s Edmund Rice Centre, has recently returned from Sri Lanka and says the country is in danger of becoming a police state.