Dramatic Developments in Brussels as Alexis Tsipras Facing “Mental Waterboarding”; Take It or Leave It Ultimatums;
Dramatic Developments in Brussels as Alexis Tsipras Facing “Mental Waterboarding”; Take It or Leave It Ultimatums; Syriza Coalition Said to be Unravelling - The Pappas Post
Why Angola’s Star Reporter Won’t Stay Down
When Marques emerged coolly from the building, even some of the officers couldn’t resist asking for an autograph.
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The migrant crisis, Islamist terrorism, Grexit and Brexit: a perfect storm of crises blows apart European unity
With disagreement over how to deal with migration and a failure to resolve the Greek problem, tempers frayed at the EU summit – while the UK in/out debate barely got discussed.
New child abuse scandals mark Portugal
Following the shame of the nation’s Casa Pia child sex abuse scandal which involved all manner of previously respected figures and personalities, stories of institutional child abuse are becoming commonplace in Portugal.
Today, newspapers carry the case of a monitor at a Santa Casa da Misericórdia children’s home in Lisbon who is suspected of having abused more than 10 babies and children up to the age of seven for over a decade.
The abuse was “particularly serious and painful”, a judicial source is reported as telling ionline, while the alleged perpetrator was only arrested two weeks ago.
He is now in preventive custody, awaiting trial.
ionline explains the case only came to light following a complaint made by a child this year.
Elsewhere in Penafiel, national tabloid Correio da Manhã exposed the story of an ‘after-hours’ crèche where the owner is due in court on charges of child sex abuse, but has been allowed to continue looking after children.
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Despite the geographical vicinity with southern European neighbour Greece, Spain and Portugal have also been among the hardliners in the bailout negotiations.
Both countries have conservative administrations, which chafe at the leftist ideals of Greece’s Syriza party. Moreover, the populations of Spain and Portugal have both suffered through painful cost-cutting and tax hikes over the past several years, as they have swallowed the austerity measures imposed on them in exchange for European aid.
”— http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/uk-eurozone-greece-ireland-idUKKBN0P617C20150626
Saudi supreme court upholds verdict against blogger Raif Badawi
Badawi’s wife expressed fear that the implementation of the flogging sentence might resume next week. “I was optimistic that the advent of Ramadan and the arrival of a new king would bring a pardon for the prisoners of conscience, including my husband,” she said.
Badawi co-founded the Saudi Liberal Network internet discussion group. He was arrested in June 2012 under cybercrime provisions, and a judge ordered the website to be shut down after it criticised Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police.
The co-founder of the site, Souad al-Shammari, was released from prison in February. But Badawi’s lawyer, Walid Abulkhair, who is also a rights activist, is still in jail. Badawi and Abulkhair have been nominated for this year’s Nobel peace prize by a Norwegian member of parliament, Karin Andersen.