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lundi 24 juin 2013

MICHAEL JACKSON’S GHOST TESTIFIES IN TRIAL

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Michael Jackson’s  ghost appeared in court today and  declared his death an accident.

Jackson’s Ghost, 50, was speaking to the court through Lionel Richie’s ex-wife, Brenda.  She was “channeling” Michael’s ghosts.

Jackson’s family is blaming concert corporation, AEG – for the death of Michael. They are alleging negligence and blame the company for hiring doctor Conrad Murray — since jailed for giving Jackson a fatal sedative overdose in 2009

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Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, however, claimed the legendary star had insisted from beyond the grave that his death was an accident, thus clearing Dr Conrad Murray, who has been jailed for delivering a fatal overdose of a sedative in 2009.

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Speaking to members of the jury at the Los Angeles County Superior Court , Mr Phillips is said to have claimed the supernatural encounter was delivered via his friend Brenda Richie, the ex-wife of musician Lionel Richie. 

“Brenda called me to tell me that she was in communications with Michael, either through a medium or directly. She said Michael told her it wasn’t Dr Murray’s fault – that he had accidentally killed himself.’

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 Judge Yvette Palazuelos is said to have ‘let the testimony stand’, as Mr Phillips responded to questioning about an email he sent back in August 2009.

It said: ‘I think I know what MJ died of and this would exonerate Conrad.’

A lawyer representing the Jackson family reportedly objected to the evidence, claiming it was ‘triple hearsay’, as the conversation was relayed to Branda Richie through the assistance of a medium. But the judge let the evidence stand nonetheless.

Jackson was close to both Lionel and Brenda throughout his life, and was godfather to their adopted daughter, Nicole Richie, 31.

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When the AEG lawyers continued to object, Michael Jackson’s Ghost appeared in the courtroom and, after dancing for five minutes, testified himself.

Michael’s Ghost told the judge that he never intended to die.  He said that he asked the Doctor to help him sleep and the doctor accidentally gave him a “little too much.”

Michael also told the court that he is “happy in the afterlife” and is spending most of his time with “Elvis, Marilyn and Liz.”

mercredi 12 juin 2013

Topless activists’ Tunis trial goes ahead

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Topless activists’ Tunis trial goes ahead

TUNIS, June 12, 2013 (AFP)

The trial resumed in Tunis on Wednesday of three European activists with radical women’s protest group Femen, who defended in court their topless anti-Islamist protest for which they risk six months in prison.

The judge opened the hearing by questioning the women, two French and one German, on the reasons and circumstances of their bare-breasted protest on May 29, a first in the Arab world.

“I came on May 28 to stage a political demonstration and support Amina (Sboui, a detained Tunisian activist). We made our plan on the Internet and came from Paris,” said Josephine Markmann, one of the three accused.

“Baring our breasts is not intended to cause sexual excitement but is a form of activism,” said Marguerite Stern, one of the French women.

The German activist said: “I relish every opportunity to express my political views.”

Lawyers for a number of Islamist associations, demanding to take part in the trial as a civil party, condemned the Femen protest in the socially conservative country governed by an Islamist-led coalition.

“It is Islam that honours women and offers them freedom, not the act of undressing,” said Slah Khlifi, one of the Islamist group’s lawyers.

Monaam Turki said their controversial act could be considered an attack on state security “under article 71 of the penal code, which carries a one-year prison sentence.”

Another lawyer cited an Arab proverb, saying: “A free woman prefers to go hungry than to eat thanks to her breasts.”

Judge Karim Chebbi suspended the hearing and indicated his verdict would be made public later on Wednesday. “The case can be settled, and the hearing is suspended for deliberation,” he said.

The women’s lawyers had said that the trial, which has already been put back for a week and the three women denied bail at the first hearing last Wednesday, could be delayed again if the judge decided to recognise the Islamist groups as a civil party.

Three other members of Femen staged a topless protest outside the Tunisian embassy in Madrid on Wednesday to demand the release of their fellow activists.

The case is being closely watched by activists and politicians in Europe, with Femen having also held protests in support of their arrested comrades outside the European Parliament in Brussels, the German chancellor’s office and the Tunisian embassy in Paris.

Their French lawyers said they had not made the trip to Tunis for Wednesday’s trial because they claimed the “rights of the defence are not guaranteed”.

“We are waiting for the clear and unconditional release of our three clients,” Patrick Klugman and Yvan Terel told AFP.

They underlined that if the activists were not freed on Wednesday, they would come “immediately to Tunis” to mobilise international support for the women, especially ahead of the expected visit by French President Francois Hollande in early July.

The women were arrested on May 29 after staging a topless demonstration outside the main courthouse in Tunis in support of Amina Sboui, a Tunisian activist with the same “sextremist” group who had been arrested 10 days earlier.

Sboui had been arrested for painting the word “Femen” on a wall near a cemetery in city of Kairouan last month, in an act of protest against a planned gathering of radical Salafists in the historic Muslim city south of Tunis.

The Tunisian activist, who sparked a scandal in March by posting topless pictures of herself on Facebook, defying Arab-Muslim convention, faces possible charges of indecency and desecrating a cemetery.

mardi 11 juin 2013

FEMEN call on Turkish women to protest against the trial of Amina Tyler

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FEMEN call on Turkish women to protest against the trial of Amina Tyler By Youssef Sourgo

Morocco World News

Casablanca, June 10, 2013

From Ukraine, to Brazil, to Germany, to the U.S., to Canada, all the way to Tunisia, FEMEN seems to have recently settled in Turkey.

“FEMEN wants to congratulate Turkish people with their first victory,” read a statement recently posted on FEMEN’s official Facebook page. The statement came attached to a picture depicting a group of Turkish girls with the Turkish flag painted on their nude breasts. 

Other recent posts on the same page featured incentive calls to action targeting Turkish young women. Seemingly, the statements are calling for support and solidarity with Tunisian FEMEN protesters who were detained by police officials for their controversial protest methods.

“We ask you to help to organize militant pickets near the Embassy and Consulate of Tunisia in Istanbul and Ankara with the slogan FREE FEMEN,” reads a direct address to Turkish young women, posted on FEMEN’s official page.

FEMEN’s international branches, including its proponents in Turkey, are expected to organize series of protests in Turkey in particular, and in many locations worldwide as it has been the case over the last couple of weeks.

The expected Turkish protests in support of FEMEN’s cause and in reaction to the trial of four FEMEN activists scheduled on June 12 will apparently take place before the Embassy and Consulate of Tunisia in Istanbul and Ankara.

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February 14, 2013

European women go on trial for the manifestation of Tunis topless

European women go on trial for topless Tunis protest

TUNIS, June 5, 2013 (AFP)

Three European women went to trial in Tunis Wednesday to hold a demonstration anti-islamiste topless, and their French lawyer said he was confident about the outcome, despite the risk of imprisonment.

Pauline Hillier and Marguerite Stern of France and Josephine Markmann of Germany arrived at the Court around 0930 GMT wearing a traditional Tunisian veil, or Sam.

A few dozen people had gathered outside the courthouse and shouted abuse at one of Tunisian women lawyers.
"How can you defend these women?", one of the people shouted. "You're not Tunisian; you are not Muslim; you don't have a woman or a girl."

Patrick Klugman, who came to Tunis to represent activists from the radical group Femen, said that the prosecution decided on a charge of debauchery, and not an attack against public morals.

Klugman said Femen is accused of having committed an act of debauchery, but that there is no facts or evidence of the intention to support the charge.

"Their bodies were exposed not to seduce but to convey a political message... which is different from the common bawdy-house," he told AFP.

But women still face a possible six months in jail sentenced if found guilty.

Klugman said that he had come to defend "the freedom of expression of women, of their message and activists Femen.»
"We ask that these activists Femen are heard instead of watched", he added.

Given the sensitivity of the case in socially conservative Tunisia, which is governed by an Islamic party and where the pure Salafists are more authoritarian, a Ukrainian activist who had come to support women has been expelled from the country on the eve of the trial.

«Sextremist» said the expulsion motion, which the authorities have not been confirmed, is a worrying precedent.

"This is a signal that the Court will not base its judgment on the law, but that decision will be political," leader of Femen in Paris, Inna Shevchenko, told AFP by telephone.

The two French and a German activists staged the first demonstration topless from the group in the Arab world, outside the Palace of justice main in Tunis, may 29.

They were demonstrating in support of Amina Sboui, a Tunisian militant arrested after painting the word "Femen" on a wall near a cemetery in the religious city of Kairouan, in an act of protest against Islamic extremists.

Kevin is also due to appear before an examining magistrate Wednesday. She is facing possible charges of indecency and desecrating a cemetery.