Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior member of football's world governing body Fifa for allegedly defaming the country's prime minister.

Mahfuza Akhter Kiron, a Fifa Council member, was detained after she had said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was neglecting football.

A defamation claim was then filed by a local sport official, alleging that the comments embarrassed the entire nation.

On Saturday, Ms Kiron was denied bail and sent to jail, her lawyer said.

"We sought bail for her after she was taken to the court. But our prayer was rejected," her lawyer Liakat Hossain said.

Gunther Krichbaum's ex-wife is said to testify in the process of slander as a witness

Enzkreis / Pforzheim. Once again yesterday, no judgment was made before the district court Pforzheim. As reported, defend there Oana Krichbaum, lawyer and CDU municipal candidate in Pforzheim, and her husband, CDU member of parliament Gunther Krichbaum, against the public statements of a 46-year-old from the Enzkreis. The Germans with Romanian roots are accused of libel and slander against public figures.

In her statements, the accused referred, inter alia, to information that she wants to have received in 2011, partly directly and partly over others from Gunther Krichbaum's ex-wife. In 2017, however, she had denied ever talking to the defendant or asking for information. Now she is to be heard as a witness. Until the next hearing on April 17, judges, public prosecutors and defense attorneys will also have to read hundreds of pages of Facebook posts along with other documents.

Read more on Saturday, March 16, in the "Pforzheimer Zeitung" or in the e-paper on PZ-news or on the apps on iPhone / iPad and Android smartphones / tablet PCs.

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LETTER FROM GUATEMALA — From the April 2019 issue

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The troubled legacy of Guatemalan adoptions

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When she was growing up in Downingtown, Stefanie Beard wondered if she might someday locate a blood relative in China, from where she was adopted as a baby.

But she never expected to find one in this country — much less one living 12 miles away.

That’s what happened when Beard, 21, a Temple University junior, submitted a DNA sample to 23andMe. The California-based genetics company soon alerted her to the existence of a biological cousin, Claire Mitchell, a 20-year-old Bryn Mawr College sophomore who also was adopted from China.

“Both of our minds are blown,” Beard said.

The women soon realized they came not just from the same southern Chinese province, but from the same small town, and in fact from the same orphanage, the Huazhou Social Welfare Institution.

ADOPTING FOR YOU TO HAVE CHILDREN, NOT TO "SAVE THE WORLD"

This week it is Adoption Joy Week that draws attention and spreads knowledge of international adoptions in a lifelong perspective. Adopted and adoptive families share their perspectives, experiences and commitment. #adoptionjoy is implemented by adoption organizations throughout the Nordic region on March 11-17. In Sweden, the Adoption Center, the Children In Front of Everything and the Friends of the Children participate. In connection with this important week I have written a text and answered questions about my vision and experience of being adopted and working with tolerance and inclusion.

To be adopted. Having a story somewhere else from and with other people, it is sometimes very special. But then the reality is adopted for us. However, after all my interviews with children, adolescents and adults who are adopted, it is important to say that the perspectives are often subjective and that they may be. Everyone is different. We have different backgrounds, we have different experiences and reference frames.

It is not possible to pull everyone adopted over a comb. Which countries of origin we represent play a role, especially in what is derived from how we are received by Swedish society on issues such as racism and prejudice. Even how old we were when we were adopted and got a new family. It is not possible to compare me (who came to Sweden only one year old) and Miranda who was four years old and remember smells, tastes, voices and faces. It can be pointed out, over and over again.

How do you view the support that is currently in the community for adopted people?

Security service lawyer says it ‘regrets’ claims against Peter Morrison were not investigated

MI5 warned the cabinet secretary in the 1980s about rumours that a minister had a “penchant for small boys” but did not inform the police or launch an investigation into the allegations, according to a member of the security services.

Giving evidence anonymously to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), a lawyer with the security service apologised for it having taken a “narrow, security-related view” of the accusations against Sir Peter Morrison.

“With hindsight,” the lawyer, whose voice was heard via remote video link, said “it was a matter of deep regret” that MI5 had not cooperated with police or made inquiries into the activities of the former MP for Chester, who died in 1995.

The official said the security service did not investigate people merely because they had a public profile but only when there was reason to suspect they posed a threat to national security. Not all files were “adverse”, he added, saying that some might be opened if a person was targeted by a terrorist group or could be susceptible to approaches by a foreign intelligence organisation.

The prosecutor has closed the procedure initiated by the previous management of the international adoptions commission for a series of irregularities in the Congo. Griffini: the end of a nightmare

Adoptions, now the long season of poisons is officially over. The Milan Public Prosecutor has definitively closed the proceeding initiated by the previous Cai management (International Adoption Commission) against Aibi, one of the most important institutions authorized for adoptions , for a series of serious irregularities concerning the adoption procedures in Congo. In practice, Aibi was accused of getting the green light for adoptions by the authorities of the African country behind the payment of bribes.

The minors, according to the charges made by the Cai to the Milanese institution, would have been taken away from the families of origin, imprisoned in fact in the orphanage, and then "sold" to Aibi that provided to transfer them to Italy to families awaiting adoption. But none of this really happened. The Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the filing "due to the groundlessness of the crime report".

The news takes on a significance that goes beyond the dispute between Cai's past management and the Aibi. It marks the end of a long period that has seen heavy shadows lengthen over the entire system of adoptions, when a crisis of confidence was added to the general collapse of the arrival of children in Italy, but also in the West, which undermined the credibility of the institutions , the relationships with adoptive families, the long-established collaboration between juvenile courts and central control body (precisely the Cai).

"The end of a nightmare that has upset our lives for almost six years. And it has made it almost impossible for us to work and for our families to continue the adoptive path in a serene way. But do we realize what it means for an institution that deals with international adoption to go ahead with the suspicion of stealing children, of buying them in Africa and then reselling them in Italy? ". He has the voice broken off to Marco Griffini, founder and president of Aibi, while commenting on the decree of archiving of the Court of Milan that on March 5 last dissolved all doubts. In the 600 pages of accusations put together by the previous Cai manager, Silvia Della Monica, against Aibi, there is no news of a crime.

Human Interest series (2019) in which Eric Goens follows six different people who each have an individual fight in which only they themselves believe in the happy ending

Annelies is six weeks back from her withdrawal clinic in South Africa. She attends her AA meetings every week and feels stronger than ever. As a former beverage addict, she now has no problem at all with her husband Eric drinking his Duvel every day. Biologist Jef Dupain has an important meeting today in the middle of the Dja game reserve in Cameroon. The villagers sign a contract to receive financial support to become a fisherman or farmer and thus avoid hunting wild animals. Stig's big dream comes true today. He gets on a bicycle for the first time. Coline travels to Guatemala to meet her father for the first time after 32 years. She and her friend Sophie are both victims of a fraudulent adoption.

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Humaninterestreeks (2019) waarin Eric Goens zes verschillende personen volgt die elk een individuele strijd voeren waarbij alleen zijzelf in de goede afloop geloven

Annelies is zes weken terug van haar ontwenningskliniek in Zuid-Afrika. Ze gaat wekelijks naar haar AA-meetings en voelt zich sterker dan ooit. Als ex-drankverslaafde heeft ze er ondertussen helemaal geen moeite mee dat haar man Eric dagelijks zijn Duveltje drinkt. Bioloog Jef Dupain heeft vandaag een belangrijke meeting in het midden van het wildreservaat Dja in Kameroen. De dorpsbewoners ondertekenen een contract om financieel gesteund te worden om visser of landbouwer te worden en zo niet meer te moeten jagen op wilde dieren. Stig zijn grote droom komt vandaag uit. Hij stapt voor de eerste keer op een fiets. Coline reist naar Guatemala om haar vader na 32 jaar voor het eerst te ontmoeten. Zij en haar vriendin Sophie zijn beiden slachtoffer van een frauduleuze adoptie.

A children’s rights activist has been jailed for six years and eight months for sexually abusing a boy in the 1960s.

Peter Newell was the former co-ordinator of the Association for the Protection of All Children charity.

The 77-year-old from Wood Green, north London, was sentenced last month at Blackfriars Crown Court.

He admitted five indecent and serious sexual assaults on a child under 16.

The Association for the Protection of All Children, or Approach, says its objectives are to prevent cruelty and maltreatment of children and advance public knowledge in the UK and abroad.