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Ten Afghans held after British journalism student is gang-raped by asylum seekers
Daily Mail (London) ^ | August 29, 2008 | Peter Allen and Emily Andrews
Posted on August 29, 2008 5:24:31 AM PDT by reaganaut1

A British woman has been raped by a gang of asylum seekers in Calais, it has been alleged.

The journalism student wanted to highlight the plight of migrants who sleep rough in a squalid camp at the French port before trying to sneak into Britain.

She was subjected to a horrific attack by six Afghan men she intended to write about, it was claimed.

French riot police rounded up 200 migrants for questioning.

Ten remained in custody tonight and police said it was possible all had been involved in the rape, which detectives described as ‘extremely brutal’.

Police said the 31-year-old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was a London student who had travelled to France ‘to highlight problems surrounding clandestine immigration’.

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The victim remains in Calais, with police hoping she will be able to identify her attackers. Tonight she was described as ‘utterly traumatised and receiving counselling’.

A police spokesman said: ‘She appeared to be working alone, which was clearly a very dangerous thing to do. We fear that the men she was reporting on attacked her in the wood where they were staying.

‘She deeply regrets going into The Jungle alone, especially at night. She concedes it was a very dangerous thing to do.’

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Stephen Ward, course director of the noSWeat Journalism Training centre in London, said: ‘We have 250 students and she could be one of ours, we just don’t know at the moment. It’s the summer holidays and our students are very ambitious and very hardworking.

‘Going to Calais to find out the real story of the immigrants is just the sort of self-starting thing they would do. But if one of them has come to harm, it will be very sad indeed ...’

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069847/posts

“British journalism student gang-raped by asylum seekers in Calais squatter camp”
Daily Mail ^ | 28th August 2008 | Peter Allen
Posted on August 28, 2008 8:29:36 AM PDT by PotatoHeadMick

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Afghan president ‘pardoned rapists’
NowPublic ^ | August 24, 2008 | Staff
Posted on August 26, 2008 9:17:40 AM PDT by forkinsocket

The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has pardoned three men who had been found guilty of gang raping a woman in the northern province of Samangan.

The woman, Sara, and her family found out about the pardon only when they saw the rapists back in their village.

“Everyone was shocked,” said Sara’s husband, Dilawar, who like many Afghans uses only one name. “These were men who had been sentenced and found guilty by the Supreme Court, walking around freely.”

Sara’s case highlights concerns about the close relationship between the Afghan president and men accused of war crimes and human rights abuses.

The men were freed discreetly but the rape itself was public and brutal. It took place in September 2005, in the run up to Afghanistan’s first democratic parliamentary elections.

The most powerful local commander, Mawlawi Islam, was running for office despite being accused of scores of murders committed while he had been a mujahedeen commander in the 1980s and a Taliban governor in the 1990s, and since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Sara said one of his sub-commanders and body guards had been looking for young men to help in the election campaign.

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