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Radha Stirling
Radha Stirling is a human rights advocate, and lawyer, specializing in legal issues in the Middle East. She is the founder of the United Kingdom-based organisations Detained in Dubai, Due Process International and IPEX (Interpol & Extradition) Reform. She founded Detained in Dubai, a justice organisation. in 2008 after her friend, Cat Le-Huy, was imprisoned in Dubai. Stirling campaigned for his release, and subsequently received requests from other people in need of help, so thought there was a need for an organisation to assist victims of injustice. Stirling also campaigns for changes to the legal system of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and founded Due Process International to campaign for reforms in the wider Middle East. Stirling has worked closely with Senators and Ministers of Parliament; her work with the Australian Parliament ensured provisions to safeguard citizens against human rights violations were included in their extradition treaty with the UAE. In March 2018, St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detained In Dubai
Detained in Dubai is a London-based organisation founded in 2008 by Radha Stirling, which states its aim is to help foreigners abroad. Detained in Dubai was founded when Cat Le-Huy, a colleague of Stirling's from Endemol, was arrested in the UAE. Stirling led the legal team and media that ended with Le-Huy's release. Following the international press coverage of the case, Stirling was asked by others for assistance. Cases and causes Detained in Dubai has represented businessmen and celebrities including Matt Joyce and Marcus Lee, Safi Qarashi, Sheikha Latifa, Artur Ligeska, Andy Neal, Jamie Harron, Billy Barclay, Ellie Holman, Laleh Shahravesh, David Oliver, Hervé Jaubert, Mohammed Haddad, Oussama El Omari, Richard Lau, Khater Massaad, Oussama El Omari, Peter Clark, Jihad Quzmar, Conor Howard, Robert Urwin, Alan Stevenson, Pancho Campo, André Gauthier, Hind Albalooki, Roxanne Hillier, Danielle Jeffries, Nichole Coffel, Ali Issa Ahmad, Dieter Kellouche, Perry Coppins, Tracy Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Lewell-Buck
Emma Louise Lewell-Buck (born 8 November 1978) is a Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since winning a by-election in 2013. She is South Shields’s first female MP. Early life From a family of shipyard workers, Lewell-Buck was born in South Shields. She is a direct descendant of William Wouldhave, the inventor of the lifeboat. Lewell-Buck attended St Joseph's Catholic Academy in Hebburn. She studied politics and media studies at Northumbria University, before gaining a master's degree in social work from Durham University. As a social worker, she specialised in child protection, and later represented the Primrose ward in Jarrow as a South Tyneside councillor from 2004 to 2013. Parliamentary career Lewell-Buck won a by-election with a reduced majority at a 2013 by-election following David Miliband's decision to leave the House of Commons. In June 2013, she became a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farzan Athari
Farzan Athari ( Persian: فرزان اطهری; born ) is a Swedish Iranian, TV host, model and actor. He has worked in the fashion and entertainment industry in 23 different countries and collaborated with over 100 brands, he has also had leading roles in movies and hosted television shows. Life and career Athari was born in Tehran, Iran. He resides in Sweden and has also lived in the United Arab Emirates. He has modeled for several well-known brands, including Diesel, Nivea, Nokia and Coca-Cola, as well as for publications such as '' GQ'' and ''Men's Health''. In 2006 he became the first International model to sign a modeling contract in Iran. He starred on a 2013 music video by Haifa Wehbe, a well-known Lebanese singer and actress, which has been viewed over 20 million times on YouTube. In 2016, Farzan Athari got into music himself just for fun and released his first single in Persian entitled Del Dele Irooniye on Spotify and Radio Javan. In 2017, Athari was in a TV commer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrest Of Matthew Hedges
In May 2018, Matthew Hedges, a British doctoral student who was in the United Arab Emirates for a two-week research trip, was arrested at Dubai International Airport on suspicion of spying on behalf of the British government. In November 2018, Hedges was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates on charges of espionage in state security. The verdict was criticised in the United Kingdom, including by Prime Minister Theresa May and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt. Hedges was pardoned in November 2018, ahead of the UAE's National Day. Biography Hedges was born in Surrey, England, and attended Cranleigh School. He works for a British cyber intelligence company. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Bradford. He has an MA from the University of Exeter, for the thesis "What has driven the UAE's military spending since 2001?". In 2015, he began a PhD program at Durham University examining the effects of the Arab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cybercrime
A cybercrime is a crime that involves a computer or a computer network.Moore, R. (2005) "Cyber crime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime," Cleveland, Mississippi: Anderson Publishing. The computer may have been used in committing the crime, or it may be the target. Cybercrime may harm someone's security or finances. There are many privacy concerns surrounding cybercrime when confidential information is intercepted or disclosed, lawfully or otherwise. Internationally, both governmental and non-state actors engage in cybercrimes, including espionage, financial theft, and other cross-border crimes. Cybercrimes crossing international borders and involving the actions of at least one nation-state are sometimes referred to as cyberwarfare. Warren Buffett describes cybercrime as the "number one problem with mankind" and said that cybercrime "poses real risks to humanity." A 2014 report sponsored by McAfee estimated that cybercrime resulted in $445 billion in annual damage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Media
Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social media'' arise due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features: # Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications. # User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media. # Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization. # Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups. The term ''social'' in regard to media suggests that platforms are user-centric and enable communal ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sean Hannity Show
''The Sean Hannity Show'' is a conservative talk radio show hosted by Sean Hannity. The program is broadcast live every weekday, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET. The show is produced in the New York City studios of radio station WOR and is sometimes transmitted via ISDN from Hannity's home in Centre Island, New York. The show is now syndicated by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, on terrestrial radio affiliates across the United States, on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125. and on American Forces Network's AFN 360 PowerTalk and The Voice channels. The primary focus of the program is the politics of the day, with interviews of liberal and conservative commentators. After conservative radio show ''The Rush Limbaugh Show'' ended its run following Limbaugh's 2021 death, ''The Sean Hannity Show'' became the most-listened to commercial radio talk show with millions of listeners.' Syndication Syndication began through the ABC Radio Networks on September 10, 2001, one day before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
60 Minutes (Australian TV Program)
''60 Minutes'' is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show '' 60 Minutes,'' airing since 1979 on Sunday nights on the Nine Network. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show. The program is one of five inducted into Australia’s television Logie Hall of Fame. History The program was founded by veteran television producer Gerard Stone, who was appointed its inaugural executive producer in 1979 by media magnate Kerry Packer. Stone devised it to be an Australian version of CBS's US ''Sixty Minutes'' program and it featured well known reporters Ray Martin, Ian Leslie and George Negus. Its prominent early programs included a 1981 interview Negus conducted with UK leader Margaret Thatcher, during which the prime minister aggressively countered his questions. Negus asked Thatcher why people described her as ''pig-headed'' and the Prime Minister demanded he tell her who, when and where such comments were made. In 1982, Jana Wendt interview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Chapman (Scottish Politician)
Douglas Chapman (born 5 January 1955) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife since the 2015 general election. He is the SNP's Small Business, Enterprise and Innovation spokesperson. Early life Chapman was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Livingston and West Calder. He attended West Calder High School and has lived in the Dunfermline area since 1990, serving as a councillor for Rosyth and North Queensferry ward on Fife Council for nine years before becoming an MP. Political career At the 2010 general election Chapman contested the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat, but was defeated by the Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown by over 23,000 votes. Five years later in Dunfermline and West Fife, however, he took 50.3% of the overall vote with a 39.6% swing from his Labour predecessor Thomas Docherty. It was his third attempt to take the seat, having been defeated in 2005 and in a by-election in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Slaughter
Andrew Francis Slaughter (born 29 September 1960) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith, previously Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, since 2005. He had previously served as Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council. Parliamentary career He stood at the Uxbridge by-election in July 1997, following the unexpected death seven days after the 1997 general election of incumbent Sir Michael Shersby. The seat, which had a small Conservative majority, was held for the Conservatives by John Randall. At the 2005 general election, Slaughter was elected as the member of parliament for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush in London, retaining the seat for Labour following the retirement of his predecessor, Clive Soley. Andy Slaughter is currently a member of the Justice Select Committee. He was a member of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee in 2009–10 and in 2010 of the London Regional Select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker
Janet Alison Whitaker, Baroness Whitaker (born 20 February 1936) is a British politician with the Labour Party. Born Janet Alison Stewart, she is the daughter of Alan Harrison Stewart and Ella Stewart (née Saunders). She was educated at Nottingham High School for Girls Nottingham Girls' High School is an independent selective day school for girls aged 4–18, situated just north of Nottingham city centre. The school was founded in 1875 and forms part of the Girls' Day School Trust. History Nottingham Girls' ..., Girton College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom and at Bryn Mawr College and Harvard University in the United States. In 1964 she married Benjamin Whitaker (politician), Benjamin Whitaker (1934–2014) a barrister, author and human rights activist, who served a single term as Labour Party member of parliament, MP for Hampstead (UK Parliament constituency), Hampstead from 1966 to 1970. Whitaker began her career in publishing. She was a Commissioning Editor with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones
Timothy Francis Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, (born 26 October 1949) is a Liberal Democrat Peer and spokesman for the digital economy in the House of Lords. Lord Clement-Jones is a consultant of the global law firm DLA Piper, and formerly held positions including: London managing partner (2011–2016); head of UK government affairs; chairman of its China and Middle East Desks; international business relations partner; and co-chairman of global government relations. He is chair of Ombudsman Services Limited, the not-for-profit independent ombudsman service that provides dispute resolution for the communications, energy, property and copyright licensing industries. He is a member of the advisory board of the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce (Airmic) and board member of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He is a member of the Saudi–Britain Joint business Council, a Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
