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AHOK CENTER TELLING THE COURT HE WOULD APPEAL THE SENTENCE An Indonesian court has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran at a trial that undermined the country's reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam. In a tense trial that was widely seen as a test of religious tolerance in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, was "found to have legitimately and convincingly conducted a criminal act of blasphemy, and because of that we have imposed two years of imprisonment", head judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told the court. Ahok was charged with blasphemy after he said clerics had used a Koranic verse to mislead voters by telling them that Muslims were not allowed to vote for a Christian. He has denied wrongdoing, and said he was not criticising the Koran, but rather the clerics' interpretation of the verse. The sentence was harsher than expe...

The Police has arrested a suspected gang Leader in Ogun State for impersonation and the murder of a middle aged motorboy after an altercation in Abeokuta, the state capital. Parading the suspect alongside other suspects at the state command of the Police, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, said the suspect was a leader of a robbery gang allegedly terrorizing residents in many parts of the capital.  According to Mr Iliyasu, the suspect had brought an unregistered Sienna vehicle to one Alaja car wash, Leme Abeokuta and later on, got involved in an argument with a motorboy who was identified as Rasaq. In the heat of the argument, he was said to have shot the boy, who died instantly. Although the suspect fled the scene immediately, he was found and arrested after intelligence investigation.  “It was also gathered that the suspect had escaped to the Republic of Togo. Based on this information, the Federal SARS swung into full scale deployment of technically dri...

He might be the last person you'd expect to die in a police shooting. Straight-A student. Talented athlete. Product of a two-parent home. Yet 15-year-old Jordan Edwards is dead -- the latest unarmed black male to be killed during an encounter with the police. Who he was Jordan Edwards was a freshman at Mesquite High School, near his home in Balch Springs, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. He had good grades and played quarterback and receiver on the football team. Head coach Jeff Fleener, who would have coached the teenager next year, said Jordan had an incredible effect on his teammates. "He was an amazing young man that had a way to make everyone around him feel better," Fleener wrote on Twitter. "He had such an impact on all of us and we refuse to let anyone tarnish that." On Tuesday, the team held their first spring training in pads. Earlier, Fleener struggled with how to discuss the teenager's death with his players. Fleener told CNN there's...

The family of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards has filed a lawsuit against the former officer responsible for Jordan’s death and his police department for inadequately training him. On Friday, the family filed a suit claiming former Balch Springs Officer Roy Oliver "exhibited a pattern of escalating encounters with the public.” The suit also claimed Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber and the department "failed to provide adequate training to Oliver on appropriate methods and techniques to control situations similar to the one" that occurred with their son Jordan, reported The Associated Press. "Oliver's inadequate training resulted in the death of Edwards," the lawsuit said. On April 29, Oliver was called to investigate reports of gunfire at house party. While at the house, Oliver noticed Edwards and some friends attempting to leave in a vehicle. Oliver used his rifle to shoot inside the car as it drove off. As a result, he struck Edwards, who di...

When the West Coast’s prized rap possession Tupac Shakur was murdered in September 1996 riding passenger-side with the leader of Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the world bore witness to one of hip-hop’s most painful losses to date. But after 21 years of arguable statements, conspiracies, documentaries, debates and finger-pointing, Knight has now stepped forth to disclose the two individuals responsible for the fateful evening of September 7, 1996.  Several sources have reported that in an officially signed affidavit, Thaddeus Culpepper, Knight’s attorney, wrote that the label CEO has “known for many years that Reggie Wright Jr. and his ex-wife Sharitha were behind the murder of Tupac and attempted murder of Knight.” Wright Jr., the then-head of security for Death Row, had previously been linked to Pac’s death by a former LAPD detective Russell Poole, along with Knight’s ex-wife.  However, Knight was the intended target of the shooting, as Poole believes the two consp...

The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, was killed in an operation on April 27 conducted jointly by Afghan and U.S. Special Forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Sunday. Hasib, appointed last year after his predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a U.S. drone strike, is believed to have ordered a series of high profile attacks including one in March 8 on the main military hospital in Kabul, a statement said. Last month, a Pentagon spokesman said Hasib had probably been killed during the raid by U.S. and Afghan special forces in Nangarhar during which two U.S. army Rangers were killed, but prior to Sunday's announcement there had been no confirmation. "This successful joint operation is another important step in our relentless campaign to defeat ISIS-K in 2017," the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson said in a statement from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul. The statement, following an ...