Two men have been jailed in China for insulting a policeman and posting his personal information online after a video of the officer beating a dog to death stirred outrage. A policeman in China has been filmed beating a dog to death in the street after it allegedly bit two pedestrians. Photo by The Sun The two men were handed five-day sentences on Saturday, the Changsha police bureau in the central province of Hunan said on their official Weibo social media account. One of the men published the address and photos of the policeman’s house online, while the other “openly insulted” him, the bureau said. The policeman, surnamed Chen, was seen killing a leashed golden retriever on a sidewalk in front of a dozen onlookers in a video posted online last month. Surveillance footage from police showed the dog had attacked at least four people. Lacking a dart gun and unable to trace its owner, Chen and another officer decided to bludgeon the dog to death “to prevent it from hurting more pedestrians”, the local Tianxin bureau of Changsha police said on Weibo. Infuriated dog lovers also directed their anger at Chen’s mother, who was harassed at her convenience store, according to the local Xiaoxiang Morning newspaper. The Tianxin police bureau also received numerous phone calls questioning the officer’s behaviour, it said. “Killing a dog on the street, no matter a good dog or a mad dog, will cause trauma and pain to some Internet users,” wrote one concerned commentater… [Read full story]
Le Van Luyen, who killed 3 people at a gold shop in northern Bac Giang Province last August, has received an 18-year prison sentence for his crime, the maximum for his age range. Some of the victims' relatives and families show themselves at the courtroom with while ribbons on their heads. The provincial Bac Giang People's Court has sentenced him an 18-year imprisonment for murder, another 18-year jail term for robbery, and 9 more months behind the bars for the abuse of trust for illegal property appropriation. “The total sum of the penalties will be no more than 18…... [read more]
Son La police had discovered an armed ring transporting large amounts of drugs from the Lao border to Son La for consumption.The provincial police submitted to the Ministry of Public Security a plan to break up this ring.At 04.05am on July 19 the police discovered 25 armed traffickers trying to carry drugs to Thung Cuong village of Van Ho district. Relevant agencies circled the village, calling on the traffickers to surrender. However, they received strong resistance from the traffickers.A policeman was killed and another was injured during the exchange of fire. Two traffickers were killed and three others were seriously…... [read more]
Officers lined the cortege route from the Houses of Parliament, where his body lay in rest on Sunday in a rare honour normally granted to senior politicians.The service took place across the River Thames in Southwark Cathedral, with Palmer's wife and five-year-old daughter in attendance.Normally bustling streets in central London were at a standstill for the procession, led by the hearse with a floral tribute reading "No 1 Daddy".Officers wearing dress uniform with white gloves and medals stood with heads bowed during a two-minute silence at the start of the service.Some 5,000 officers from around the country took part, along…... [read more]
PRETORIA – Star athlete Oscar Pistorius is spending his first night in jail as he starts serving a five-year sentence behind the towering walls of a grim South African prison after a sensational trial for killing his girlfriend. The "Blade Runner" is just one of more than 7,000 inmates of the Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria, where he was taken after being sentenced for shooting dead model Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. Judge Thokozile Masipa on Tuesday ordered Pistorius to serve a maximum five years in prison for culpable homicide after a seven-month trial watched live by millions…... [read more]
A court in the central province of Nghe An sentenced a woman to five years in jail on Wednesday for selling a woman and a teenage girl to a Vietnamese trafficker in China for less than $900. Luong Thi Hang, 31, was charged of human trafficking. Prosecutors say Hang spent some time living in China where she met another Vietnamese woman named Hoai. When Hang returned to Vietnam, in late 2015, Hoai asked her to find women and children to sell in China. Hang returned with her 34-year-old sister-in-law and a 15-year-old neighbor who'd hoped to find work. Hang handed…... [read more]
