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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Dozens of dissidents arrested in Cuba as major summit looms High school teacher arrested for dry humping his mailbox in the nude China activist sentenced to 4 years' jail, sparks criticism

Dozens of dissidents arrested in Cuba as major summit looms  Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 03:12 PM PST Dozens of dissidents have been detained in a "wave of political repression" ahead of a major international summit in Cuba, activists said Sunday. "The government is carrying out a wave of political repression ahead of the summit" in Havana that ends Wednesday, warned dissident Elizardo Sanchez. One dissident who planned to attend an event on the summit's sidelines, Jose Daniel Ferrer, was arrested Friday after meeting with European diplomats, Sanchez said. No one knows where he is," said Sanchez, who heads the outlawed Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Full Story	Top
High school teacher arrested for dry humping his mailbox in the nude  Sunday, Jan 26, 2014 12:07 PM PST Police say a high school teacher in Walpole, Mass. wearing only a ski hat, ski goggles and a towel ambled down to his mailbox early Monday morning, then dropped the towel and began thrusting his hips in the direction of the mailbox. Norfolk County Agricultural High School teacher Marc Mertz trotted from his house, which is secluded behind some trees, down a snow-covered driveway to his mailbox at the edge of what appears to be a reasonably busy road. Walpole police chief John Carmichael said Mertz, 44, then made "a return trip" to the mailbox a couple hours later. Full Story	Top
China activist sentenced to 4 years' jail, sparks criticism  Saturday, Jan 25, 2014 10:32 PM PST Prominent Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong was sentenced to four years' jail on Sunday for his role in organising anti-corruption protests, furthering a crackdown on a rights movement he championed and sparking international criticism. The 40-year-old lawyer was a central figure in the New Citizens Movement, a loose network of activists who organised street protests and dinner discussions on causes from educational equality to official corruption. "We call on Chinese authorities to release Xu and other political prisoners immediately... and guarantee them the protections and freedoms to which they are entitled under China's international human rights commitments," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. Amnesty International described the verdict as "shameful". Full Story	Top

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