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Lawyer of Migrant Who Filmed Facebook Livestream Rape Claims Client 'Did Not Understand' It Was Rape
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by Chris Tomlinson12 Aug 2017
The lawyer for a migrant who filmed the rape of a young girl in Sweden and broadcast it on a Facebook livestream claims his client was not aware his actions were rape.
Andreas Welin, the lawyer for Emil Khodagholi who was convicted earlier this year of defamation for filming the rape of a young Swedish woman and broadcasting the footage on Facebook, made the claim in an effort to have his client's six-month sentence overturned. Mr Welin says he will take the case to the Swedish supreme court, Dagens Juridik reports.
Mr Welin wrote that the case will attempt to raise "several questions about what actually constitutes an offence, which criteria must be considered to obligate someone to reveal rape."
He added that his client did not understand at the time that the actions of the other two men, 21-year old Reza Mohammed Ahmadi and 18-year-old Maysam Afshar, were rape. The lawyer also argued that Mr Khodagholi suffers from a mental handicap which could have impaired his ability to properly judge the situation.
The incident, which occurred in January of this year in the Swedish city of Uppsala, made international headlines as the broadcast was actively shared across social media as it happened. The footage eventually led some to call the police who responded and are seen at the end of the footage arresting the men involved.
After the arrest, another young woman came forward, telling Swedish media that she had also been a victim of sexual assault perpetrated by one of the men who she recognised in the video. The 21-year-old Swedish woman said that she had been raped 15 months before the livestream incident while taking a shower in her apartment.
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Dump of DHS Data Reveals Four Million 'Half-Amnestied' Aliens
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By David North on August 1, 2017
The recent and welcome release of a huge amount of raw immigration data, though presented awkwardly, shows a massive half-amnestied population, probably reaching four million aliens.
None of these aliens are in illegal status currently, none have permanent legal status, and none are in employer-dominated nonimmigrant worker programs. All are in the United States and have an interim Department of Homeland Security form, the Employment Authorization Document (EAD), which allows them to work legally. The presence of each of the 58 (yes, 58) different sub-classifications of EAD holders is not new, but the huge size of the collective population is rarely discussed.
Since an EAD can be valid for a few months to many years to a lifetime (in a handful of cases), my best guess is that the estimated 2.1 million EADs expected to be issued this fiscal year suggests a current population of some four million working aliens in what I am calling "half-amnestied" status. These aliens can work legally for a while, but do not have permanent legal status, though some of them will get that status ultimately.
It's well known that the government rarely publishes population figures, but it does release work-load data such as EAD issuances, leaving the conversion of these data to population estimates to others, such as the Center.
There are three notable features of this half-amnestied population:
- It is huge and only consists of workers, but most of the members get temporary legal status for reasons unrelated to their skills.
- It is a population that is rarely discussed as a group, and overlaps only slightly with other, better-known alien worker groupings, such as legal immigrants, temporary foreign workers, and illegal aliens.
- Its members, on the other hand, are as free to move around the labor market as citizens or permanent resident aliens, with a handful of exceptions; they are free of ties to a given employer and free of worries about being employed illegally.
Given that last item, while this is a workers' group, it is not bound to any employer unlike the semi-indentured H classes of nonimmigrant workers, so the half-amnestied are of no special interest to those employers who like their workers to be "tethered", to use their favorite euphemism. And since employers dominate labor force discussions, this is a group rarely mentioned.
The new DHS data, shown in condensed form in the following table, indicates that the number of EAD issuances has soared from a little over 1.2 million in 2014 to an estimated 2.1 million this fiscal year
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5 Years of Lawlessness
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Posted by Robert Law | Aug 15, 2017
Five years ago today, President Obama's Department of Homeland Security began accepting and approving applications for the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program. In a brazen move to sure up his anti-borders base during his reelection campaign, President Obama bypassed Congress and ignored the will of the American people by unilaterally implementing DACA on August 15, 2012. In addition to violating the U.S. Constitution, DACA also conflicts with numerous federal laws by granting reprieve from deportation and work authorization to certain illegal aliens for renewable two years terms.
In addition to the many legal and constitutional issues DACA poses, the program has been extremely successful at sending the message to the world that the U.S. government does not intend to enforce its own immigration laws, especially amongst young people. DACA reinforces the notion that if illegal aliens avoid law enforcement long enough, eventually the U.S. government will allow them to stay.
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BEWARE: Man, 71, Burned His Retina Looking at Eclipse As a Teen: 'Why Take a Chance With Your Eyes?'
A 20-second look at the sun cost Lou Tomososki much of the sight in his right eye.
So he has some words of advice for kids and teens tempted to look at the upcoming solar eclipse: You'll be sorry!
"Why take a chance with your eyes?" the 71-year-old Oregon man told InsideEdition.com Monday.
He was a teenager when his science teacher told the class about a solar eclipse happening that afternoon.
So he and his buddy, Roger Duval, stood in front of their high school and looked up. He remembers watching the moon pass over the sun.
He thought nothing of it at the time, he said.
"There's no sign" that your eye is being damaged, he said. "You just squint. You don't feel anything."
On the walk home, "there was a little bit of a blurry spot," he said. Luckily, he had looked at the eclipse with only one eye.
But even that left him with a pea-sized blank spot in his right eye.
"The damage was done right then and there," he said of his 20-second glimpse of a solar eclipse. "The longer you look at it, the more damage is done."
He didn't realize that the sun had burned a hole in his retina until months later, during a visit to the eye doctor.
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Find out which glasses are safe to use to watch the upcoming solar eclipse
With excitement building over the solar eclipse set to take place on Aug. 21, anyone looking to view the rare phenomenon will need a pair of special eclipse glasses to avoid the harmful effects of staring directly at the sun.
For more important safety information, pre-order Jeff Rossen's new book "Rossen to the Rescue" here.
However, experts say that dangerous counterfeit glasses are flooding the market. Using a counterfeit pair could potentially harm your eyes to the point of causing blindness.
he issue has become so widespread that Amazon has cracked down on counterfeit sellers.
The retailer has refunded customers who bought glasses that don't meet safety standards and sent out emails recommending that customers do not use certain products to view the sight of the moon covering the sun across North America for the first time in almost a century.
TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen put a series of glasses to the test on Monday to see which ones are safe, and also met with experts to determine what you should be looking for in a good pair of eclipse glasses.
It's also important to note that you cannot use regular sunglasses to view the eclipse, no matter how dark the lenses are on the glasses. TODAY Health spoke with experts about why it's not safe.
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