Remembering the great Bohemian of our times

John Abraham who had become a living myth even during the short span of his nomadic existence due to his constant rebellion against all establishments and social conventions, was killed in a tragic mishap in Calicut on 30 May 1987.

He belongs to the glorious group of artists who were part of a tradition of Bohemian "experiments in living". Despite all the hardships, his life was a celebration. The intensity of the friendship, fun, colour and above all the freedom of life which he brought to the simplest details of his life made it worthwhile and memorable.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation suggests Israeli culpability for Iraqi prisoner abuses

On the May 4 broadcast of CBC TV's National News correspondent Neil Macdonald made a shift from Iraq to turn his report against Israel, proposing to viewers that Israeli intelligence might be linked in some way to the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Later, the CBC apologized for this statement by saying that in fact, there is no evidence that Israel was involved in what happened in the Iraqi prison.

Prisoner abuse: A regular occurrence in US Prisons

Horrific abuses, some similar to those revealed in Iraq, regularly occur in U.S. prisons with little national attention or public outrage, human rights activists says.

All over the world, prisoners of war are abused. Its just that when it comes to the so called 'Civilized, Fair and Just' nations that it is not normally expected or acknowledged. It is simply demanded that the prisoners are dealt with in a humanitarian way.

Pakistani council approves rapes to avenge honour

A village council in Pakistan permitted a landlord to rape the sister and sister-in-law of a man he accused of an illicit relationship with his daughter.

The council members, all of them landlords themselves, ruled that the influential landlord could avenge his honour by having sex with the farmer's daughter, who is 16, and daughter-in-law, who is 22.

Later the girls were locked in a room and raped by the landlord while two of his male relatives stood guard and the three-member council waited outside.