British
citizens accused of child porn found to be fraud victims
Information
(identity) theft sometimes leads to innocent people
being charged with a crime. Recently, I've been reading
about how British citizens were accused of viewing child
pornography, when they were actually victims of credit
card fraud. 16-5-2007
Britian: Operation Ore flawed by fraud
The high-profile crackdown on internet
child porn has claimed lives and destroyed reputations.
But fresh evidence says the police got it wrong.
16-5-2007
Swedish girl prosecuted for sex snaps
An 18-year-old girl has been prosecuted
for taking photos of two of her classmates having sex
and uploading the images to the internet.
16-5-2007
Britian: New crackdown targets kerb-crawlers
The Home Office and police are clamping
down on street prostitution with a new advertising
campaign targeting kerb-crawlers.
16-5-2007
Scotland: Vice girls held after raid on brothel
Two illegal immigrants were found working
as prostitutes after police swooped on a brothel in a
Leith waterfront flat.
16-5-2007
Bulgarian prostitution ring bust in Norway
A series of police raids on Tuesday
resulted in ten arrests in a Bulgarian prostitution
ring. One of the ten arrested has been charged with
human trafficking, Oslo police said in a press release.
16-5-2007
Muslim women in France regain their virginity in clinics through surgery
Sitting in a
cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old
French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any
other Parisian. But two months ago, she did something
none of her friends have done.
12-5-2007
London becomes more 'gay friendly'
Traditionally a very male, homophobic
environment, a report by financial services recruiter
Joslin Rowe Associates claims that the financial heart
of the capital is now becoming increasingly gay and
lesbian friendly. 12-5-2007
Vibrator 'threat to national security'
A radio-controlled vibrator made in
Britain has been banned in Cyprus after it was branded a
threat to national security.
12-5-2007
UK: Girls are porn to be wild
Two thirds of women fantasise about
having group sex and a quarter dream of starring in a
porn film, says a poll.
12-5-2007
Norway to criminalise buying sex
Norway's ruling Labour Party voted to ban
the purchase of sex on Sunday in an attempt to stop
prostitution by targeting those who buy it rather than
those who sell it, officials said.
12-5-2007
Belfast: Will the shutters ever come down on sex shops?
Will there ever be
legalised sex shops open in Belfast? The quick, but
indefinite answer is maybe. The ink on the judgment is
still drying on the ruling issued on Wednesday by the
House of Lords, which vindicated Belfast City Council's
refusal to grant a sex shop a trading licence.
12-5-2007
Greece: Porn DVD freebies too blue for prosecutor
Newspapers and magazines that give away
pornographic DVDs could soon be removed from kiosks,
following a decision by Supreme Court prosecutor Giorgos
Sanidas who has asked his colleagues to clamp down on
the practice. 12-5-2007
Irish teen wins right to travel for abortion
An Irish court has ruled that a pregnant
17-year-old who knows her baby will die has the right to
travel to the UK for an abortion.
12-5-2007
Macedonia: 15-year-old girl forced to prostitution
A 15-year-old girl was saved from the
claws of a mobster from Tetovo area, who was forcing her
to provide prostitution services, and another six
underage girls were uncovered during police inspection
in Tetovo and its surrounding.
12-5-2007
Latavian Cardinal: homosexuality a form of prostitution
The opposition
of the Roman Catholic church to gay Pride parades
reached a new low today when the Archbishop of Riga
called homosexuality "total corruption in the sexual
arena" and "an unnatural form of prostitution."
12-5-2007
