Martine Ward reports: Worldwide charity Amnesty International has called for Indonesia to ban plans to introduce mandatory pregnancy and virginity tests on high school girls in the country. This week, it was reported that the head of a secondary school in Magetan, East Java, had forced pupils to undergo the tests before they received a…
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UK: Peeping tom student filmed flatmates undressing
A university student secretly installed a video camera in the bathroom of a house in Bath to film his female housemates undressing. Peeping tom Edward Macey will now be listed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years and have to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to three counts of…
Joshua Simon Ashby gets 4 months in jail for posting naked photo of ex-girlfriend on Facebook
Michael Sheridan reports: A New Zealand man looking to get back at his ex-girlfriend by posting a naked photo of her on Facebook is heading to jail. Twenty-year-old Joshua Simon Ashby will serve four months in jail after he pled guilty to a charge distributing indecent material on Friday, an act which was described as one of “irresponsible drunken rage”…
UK: Action taken after MPs personal details compromised
From the ICO’s press release: The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010…