Tag: slavery
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Five suspects granted bail in two honour killing cases
Peshawar High Court has granted bail in two separate cases involving honor killings. The first case involved Swat resident, Akhtar Ali, suspected of being involved in the killing of his wife and another man over three months ago. The bail was granted by Justice Shahid Khan of a single-member bench, who directed the submission of…
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Pakistani family arrested for torturing daughter-in-law, forcing her to drink engine oil
A Pakistani man and four of his family members in Britain have been sentenced to years in prison after forcing his wife to become a house slave, subjecting her to cruelty and torture from October 2017 to April 2019. The husband, Mohammed-Shuaib Arshid, brought his wife from Pakistan to the UK, after an arranged marriage,…
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Edward Norton confirms Pocahontas is his 12th grandmother
Edward Norton, who starred as the “genius” tech billionaire Miles Bron in the film ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ was a guest at the PBS genealogical history show ‘Finding Your Roots’ where the actor discovered that the real-life Pocahontas was his 12th grandmother. Pocohontas was a Native American who had welcomed English settlers into…
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Saudi oil giant slammed for dressing migrant worker as a sanitiser
Oil giant Saudi Aramco has come under fire after photos, showing one of its migrant workers wearing a surgical mask and a large hand-sanitiser dispenser, went viral on social media. Twitter users labelled the act by the oil company as “racist” and “classist” as the worker appeared to be walking around distributing sanitiser to staff…