Father Ly's trial three years ago made headlines as he tried to read out a poem criticizing Vietnam's Communist authorities and was quickly muzzled by a burly security guard. He was sentenced to 8 years in jail for his role as one of the founders of Bloc 8406 - the dissident movement which emerged in 2006 and flowered during a few months of openness in the country before being crushed.
Turkey has made it a criminal offence for a woman to become pregnant through a foreign sperm donor. Artificial insemination was already illegal in turkey, but until now it's been legal for women to go abroad to seek sperm from donors. They now face a prison term of up to three years. However, Bulent Tiras of the Turkish Gynecological Association told the BBC the authorities would find it hard to enforce the new rules.
"If a couple decides to have some strong donation, they would go to abroad, to one of our neighbours, like Greece, Greek Islands, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia even Iran. They can give the go and then come back."
American FBI agents have gone to the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, following the murder on Saturday of US consular official and two other related to the US mission. They’ll help investigate drug gangs who are suspected of carrying out the killings in what is Mexico's most violent city. A State Department spokesman said it was too early to say whether or not the victims had been deliberately targeted.
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