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2023-09-19 09:30:00

In July 2020, during the protest, a traffic lane on Rue la Loi was removed, and concrete blocks installed with the aim of creating a two-way cycle path. The Brussels Region, encouraged by the daily number of cyclists, intends to perpetuate the configuration with curbs in place of the so-called “New Jersey” blocks.

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2023-09-19 09:28:21

A mother has just been sentenced to prison by the Brussels Court of Appeal. The reason ? She fed her child exclusively with breast milk… for more than two years, as reported by our colleagues at La Libre.

The child’s father lives in the United States. When in 2018 the family visited the grandparents, who lived in Brussels, the grandfather directly noticed that the child’s health was not good. And for good reason: the mother had only fed him breast milk since his birth. Quickly taken to hospital in critical condition, the child weighed less than a six-month-old and had never been vaccinated.

He will stay in the hospital for a year to fully recover. He then went to live with his dad in the United States. He was not held responsible by the courts, because it was the mother alone who made the decision to feed him only in this way.

The mother was sentenced to two years in prison with a three-year suspended sentence.

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2023-09-19 11:17:39

The United States government confirmed that this Tuesday the five Americans who were detained in Iran landed in the country and were released as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between the Joe Biden government and that country.

Several of those detained were detained in Iran for more than 5 years. Despite his release, several Republican lawmakers criticized the deal, saying it amounted to a “ransom” payment and would only encourage Iran to imprison more foreigners.

As a first step in the prisoner exchange, the five Americans were placed under house arrest on August 10 and their release was conditional on the transfer of South Korea’s $6 billion in frozen oil revenues to Qatar’s central bank. Iran’s use of the released funds will be monitored by Qatar and restricted to the purchase of food, medicine or other items for humanitarian purposes, as permitted by US sanctions.

Despite the agreement, tensions are expected to remain between the US and Iran, which are embroiled in several disputes, including over the Iranian nuclear program. Iran maintains the program is for peaceful purposes, but its uranium enrichment is closer than ever to a war-grade level.

WHO ARE THE FREED AMERICANS

Siamak Prayer, 51, was imprisoned in Iran for nearly eight years, longer than any of the other current American detainees. A graduate of New York’s White Plains High School and a business consultant with degrees from Tufts and Rutgers universities, he was arrested in 2015 and convicted of espionage in a trial that lasted only a few hours. His father, Baquer Namazi, was detained in 2016 when he traveled to Iran to visit his son. The eldest Namazi was released in 2022.

Mothers Shargi, 59, an Iranian-born businessman from Washington, DC, who moved to the US as a young man, was arrested in April 2018. He was released on bail and acquitted of all charges in December 2019, but authorities Iranians refused to return his passport. He was charged once more in 2020 and found guilty of espionage without trial.

Morad Tahbaz67, an Iranian-American who also has British citizenship, was arrested in January 2018 and convicted of espionage in 2019. Tahbaz was part of a group of environmental activists carrying out research into the endangered cheetah population in Iran.

The families of the other two freed Americans requested that their names be kept private.

The prisoner exchange did not include two legal permanent residents of the United States with green cards who remained behind bars in Tehran. One of them, Shahab Dalili, was arrested and jailed in 2016 while visiting Tehran for his father’s funeral, according to his family. His wife and children are American citizens living in Virginia. Recently, his son staged a sit-in for days in front of the State Department, demanding that his father be included in the swap.

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2023-09-19 10:02:05

Nearly fifty complaints (47) were filed for cases of sexual violence within the Church between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023, according to the latest data communicated Tuesday by the Conference of Bishops of Belgium. This brings the total number of complaints to 764 since the creation of the Church’s contact points in 2012 and up to 1,392 reports if we include the denunciations recorded by the Arbitration Commission.

French-speaking complaints represented 66% of the total number of complaints, compared to 34% in the north of the country. “While the proportion was previously around 80% for Dutch speakers and 20% for French speakers, the majority of complaints now come from the French-speaking part of the country. It might therefore be that the problems discovered in France played a catalytic role,” analyzes the Conference of Bishops.

In the majority of cases recorded between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023, it was the victim herself who denounced the transgressive sexual behavior. Thirty-six victims (or 77%) were over 40 years old when the complaint was filed and 27 (or 57%) were men. Among the perpetrators of violence, almost all were men. At the time of the events, 32 (68%) of the victims were under 18 years old and five victims (11%) were even under 10 years old.

Thirty of the reported incidents (i.e. 64%) date back more than 30 years and 21 of these incidents (i.e. 45%) date back more than 40 years. At the time of communication, 57% of abusers had already died. This explains the “low rate of referral to justice”, underline the Bishops of Belgium. The attackers were priests or religious, with the exception of two pastoral agents and a person responsible for a Christian institution.

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