| No fundamental rights in Bangladesh, says interim govt
Dhaka, Apr 19 : A day after imposing ban on former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's entry into her own country, an influential adviser to the army-backed interim administration said, "there has been no fundamental rights under the state of emergency in the country". "Journalists should understand one thing that the country is under the state of emergency. None of us has any fundamental rights... The country is heading for a difficult situation," Mainul Hosein, the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser, told reporters on Thursday. He made these comments when journalists asked him about press advisories asking the media not to publish or broadcast Sheikh Hasina's interview aired by BBC Bangla radio service on Wednesday, the day the interim government imposed a ban on the former Prime Minister's entry into the country.
DARE DEVIL DICTATOR
The spineless SADC leaders failed completely to read our most hated dare devil dictator the proverbial riot act. Worse still, they seem to have swallowed Mugabe's worn out lies and rhetoric bait, hook and sinker.
The post-summit press statement by the SADC leaders confirms that they believed Mugabe's deceitful claim that western democracies have imposed economic sanctions, not just travel restrictions, against Zimbabwe, and that this was the major cause of the country's economic problems. They obviously have not read the Zimbabwe government's own reports that indicate that trade between the southern African state and the USA increased by a respectable 9% during 2006, for example.
But perhaps their worst sin was the appointment of South Africa's Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in attempts to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis.
Legislature passes sweeping cybercrime bill
The Legislature unanimously approved a bill that Attorney General Bill McCollum said Thursday will give Florida the nation's toughest penalties for sexual predators trolling the Internet for child victims. ''These are sick, perverted individuals. They have an insatiable appetite for children, to have sex with children,'' said Sen. Nancy Argenziano, R-Dunnellon, sponsor of the bill. .
Government, Italian investors choose mediator in mining case
Johannesburg - The South African government and Italian investors in Marlin Holdings, Marlin Corporation and Red Graniti South Africa have nominated arbitrators as part of the international arbitration against the government called by the investors. Marlin is a privately held part of the Finstone group, while Red Graniti SA is a subsidiary of Red Graniti of Italy. The companies' combined South African operations employ about 2 000 people. Webber Wentzel Bowens mining lawyer Peter Leon said the government had appointed Paris-based law firm Freshfields Bruchhaus Deringer to represent it at the arbitration. Randall Williams and Sehaheed Alli, the representatives of the department of trade and industry, were unavailable for comment yesterday. Leon, who is representing the litigants, said the arbitration panel would be made up of three panellists.
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