FBI ( Taunted by Anonymous Group - They Hijack Federal Website )

Anonymous Hijacks Federal Website Over Aaron Swartz Suicide

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Activists from the hacker collective known as Anonymous assumed control over the homepage of a federal judicial agency this morning.

In a manifesto left on the defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and what the activists said are threats to the free flow of information.

The lengthy essay largely mirrors previous demands from Anonymous, but this time the group also cited the recent suicide of Reddit co-founder and activist Aaron Swartz as has having "crossed a line" for their organization. Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison on computer fraud charges.

Prosecutors said he had stolen thousands of digital scientific and academic journal articles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the goal of disseminating them for free.

Read More: Aaron Swartz' Death Fuels MIT Probe, White House Petition to Oust Prosecutor

Anonymous says Swartz was "killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win - a twisted and distorted perversion of justice - a game where the only winning move was not to play."

"There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused," it reads, also mentioning recent arrests of Anonymous associates by the FBI.

In their statement, the hackers say they targeted the homepage of the Federal Sentencing Commission for "symbolic" reasons.

The group claimed that if their demands were not met they would release a trove of embarrassing internal Justice Department documents to media outlets. Anonymous named the files after Supreme Court justices and provided hyperlinks to them from the defaced page.

As of press time the commission's site had been taken offline but an earlier attempt by CNN to follow the files' links yielded dead-ends, mostly offline sites.

The file names use an ".aes256? suffix, denoting a common encryption protocol. The same system was used to encrypt the Wikileaks Afghan war documents before their release.

Nashik India ( Cop Suspended for no action on woman's complaint ) She committed suicide

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Top cop suspended for not taking action on woman’s complaint
Nashik: A police inspector here was suspended for reportedly not acting on a harassment complaint by a woman against two persons following which she committed suicide, police said today.
Nashik Commissioner of Police Kulwant Kumar Sarangal yesterday suspended Satpur police station’s senior inspector
Kondiram Popere as he did not take action on the complaint of 43-year-old widow Nirmala Bhaskar Shinde.

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In her complaint filed on 2 January, the woman had alleged that two unidentified persons used to harass her
whenever she returned home from work at an industrial unit and would also make calls on her cellphone, police said.
In her complaint, she had also provided the vehicle and mobile phone numbers of the accused.
However, fed up with the harassment, she ended her life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house last
week. Later, a probe was conducted into the case following which the errant police official was suspended, police said.
Meanwhile, police have arrested one person, identified as Rajesh Aher, from city’s Panchavati area for allegedly
harassing the 43-year-old woman. Aher was arrested two days ago in connection with the case, police said, adding that, search was on for the other accused.

Rio de Janeiro ( Family lost pet tortoise 30 yrs ago- And found her Alive in a store room in house)

Family discover missing pet tortoise in locked store room THIRTY YEARS after she vanished... and she's still alive

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• Manuela disappeared from her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982
• Found when owners finally cleared out store room after father died
• Vet believes she survived by eating termites from the wooden floors

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PUBLISHED:05:33 EST, 25 January 2013| UPDATED:05:34 EST, 25 January 2013
A family found their missing pet tortoise in a store room more than 30 years after they lost her, it was reported today.
Manuela disappeared from her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1982 and despite a lengthy search was never seen again.
Her owners, the Almeida family, assumed she had run away after builders working on the house left the front door open.

Turtle-ly delighted: The Almeida family plays with their pet tortoise Manuela 30 years after she disappeared from their home in Rio de Janeiro

It was only after their father Leonel died earlier this month that the Almeida children began clearing out a second-floor room which he had filled with broken electrical items and always kept locked.
Leonel's son, Leandro, said he was astonished to find Manuela alive inside a box containing an old record player.
He told Brazil's Globo G1 website said: 'I put the box on the pavement for the rubbish men to collect, and a neighbour said, "you're not throwing out the turtle aswell are you?"
'I looked and saw her. At that moment, I turned white, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.'
Daughter Lenita, who had been given the tortoise as a childhood pet, said: 'Everything my father thought he could fix, he picked up and brought home.

Alone time: Manuela was finally discovered alive inside a box containing an old record player when the family decided to clear out a locked store room (above)

'If he found an old television he thought he might be able to use a part of it to fix another one in the future, so he just kept accumulating things. We never dared go inside that room.
'We're all thrilled to have Manuela back. But no-one can understand how she managed to survive for 30 years in there, it's just unbelievable.'
Rio de Janeiro vet Jeferson Pires explained that Manuela's red-footed species of tortoise, can go for long periods without eating.
He said: 'They are particularly resilient and can survive for two to three years without food. In the wild they eat fruit, leaves, dead animals, even faeces.'
He said Manuela may have survived by eating termites from the wooden floors.

Malaysia ( Public Hanging coming soon for Nigerian Drug Dealer )

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John Amaechi Eze, a 23-yr-old Nigerian student studying at a college in Kuala, Lumpur in Malaysia has been sentenced to death by hanging over drug trafficking.

John was found guilty of cannabis trafficking two years ago but his sentencing took place few days ago.

According to the judge in charge of his case, the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt against John Amaechi Eze.

According to reports on NewStraitsTimes, in his judgment, Judicial Commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab said the accused claimed he was waiting to board an express bus at a restaurant in front of the Lye Huat Garden hall when he was arrested by police.

However, he said the court did not believe his claim that he did not own the luggage when witnesses had testified that he was with the luggage all the time.

After his sentencing, a blogger who lives in Malaysia by the name of Ola shared his experience on how Nigerians are battling to survive in Malaysia over racism and discrimination.

He additionally warned people against cocaine, drug trafficking.

Lagos ( Man Urinates in pot of Soup -Gets six months in prison ) Vendor refused to sale soup on credit

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One of the traders in Gatankowa market, oke-odo, Lagos, Taofeeq Shobulo, is to serve six months prison terms, for allegedly urinating in a pot of soup and provoking breach of peace on the 17th of January.
The 38-year-old convict, who pleaded guilty to the charges, was sentenced on Tuesday by an Ojokoro Senior
Magistrates’ Court.
His prosecutor, Lugard Ahonle told the court that “Shobulo had asked the food vendor, Olayiwola Olayemisi, to sell food to him on credit which she refused because, according to her, the accused was fond of eating without paying.
“The accused later came back while the food vendor was not paying attention and urinated into her pot of soup,’’ he said.
The prosecutor noted that the offence contravened Sections 136 and 411 of the Criminal Code Laws of Lagos State.
Presiding over the case, the Magistrate K. O. Ogundare sentenced the trader to six moths imprisonment saying “having found you Taofeeq Shobulo, guilty, you are hereby sentenced to six-months imprisonment which will be served concurrently

Iran Karaj ( Wounded Eagle goes in for surgical operation ) Shot by poachers

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KARAJ, Jan. 17 (MNA) – An eagle wounded by poachers underwent surgical operation and was healed Wednesday evening in the Clinic for Animals of Alborz Province.

Iran News ( A Rapist was Publicly hanged in South-east Iran Today ) photo

One Prisoner Was Hanged Publicly In South-Eastern Iran Today Saturday 26 January 2013 [English] [فارسى] [français]   Iran Human Rights, January 26: According to the official Iranian media a man was hanged in the public early this morning in Kerman (southeastern Iran). According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars the man was identified as "Yaser K." (age not mentioned) and convicted of rape. The execution was carried out at the Khajou Square of Kerman this morning Saturday January 26. There have been 8 public hangings, one public amputation and four public lashings during the last 10 days in Iran.