Canada police probe alleged child abuse by video gaming mom

23:42, December 18, 2019

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  US Naval Academy probes possible 'white power' gesture at game

  Navy midshipmen salute ahead of an NCAA college football game against Army, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (Photo: AP)The U.S. Naval Academy has appointed an officer to conduct an internal investigation into possible “white power” hand gestures flashed by students during a broadcast before the Army-Navy football game, an academy spokeswoman said Sunday.“Based on findings of the investigation, those involved will be held appropriately accountable,” Cmdr. Alana Garas, a spokeswoman for the academy in Annapolis, Maryland, said via email. “It would be inappropriate to speculate any further while we are conducting this investigation.”Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt, a spokesman for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, said officials there were also looking into the matter. “At this time we do not know the intent of the cadets,” he said.West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen in the stands appeared to display the hand sign during an ESPN broadcast segment. The gesture is similar to the one used to indicate “OK,” with the thumb and forefinger in a circle and the three other fingers splayed out behind.U.S. Coast Guard leaders reprimanded an officer who used a similar hand sign during a television broadcast last year.The Anti-Defamation League recently added the sign to its database of hate symbols. It started as a trolling campaign on the internet message board 4chan, which tried to dupe viewers into thinking the fingers of the “OK” sign formed the letters “W” and “P” to mean “white power,” but the league said extremists had adopted it as a sincere expression of white supremacy.Brenton Tarrant, the Australian man charged with killing 51 people at New Zealand mosques in March, flashed the symbol during a courtroom appearance.In September, West Point removed a motto from a spirit flag used by the school’s football team because of its connection to white supremacist groups. The academy said the letters GFBD, which stand for “God Forgives, Brothers Don’...

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  ‘Gross abuse of process’

  Photo: The logo of Chinas tech giant Huawei. /XinhuaAs more detailed evidence about the case of Meng Wanzhou emerged, experts called on Canada to respect the rule of law and correct errors in law enforcement procedures, saying that the arrest of Huaweis chief financial officer was purely politically driven.Meng is facing extradition to the US for alleged bank fraud.She was arrested at Vancouver International Airport by Canadian authorities at the request of the US on December 1, 2018, and has been held under house arrest since then.Now detailed documents provided to the Global Times by sources close to the matter suggest that the arrest of Meng was a politically driven trap jointly colluded by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) that included abuse of law enforcement procedures and violations of the law for US political purposes: The border agency abused its inspection powers to conduct an illegal covert criminal investigation.The documents show that CBSA staff arrested Meng on December 1 and sealed her phone in a mylar bag that blocked signals and forced her to give out the phone PIN code then transferred it to the police.Routine border inspection does not include a probe of a subjects electronic equipment and the agency has no mylar bags which had been provided by RCMP.Mounted Police work notes showed that the FBI had clearly brought up that Mengs electronic devices should be seized when she was arrested. Mengs lawyers question the way the Canadian authorities handled the case, as the CBSA forced Meng to give out her phone passwords and hand over serial numbers to the police.Canadas border security agency has admitted this was an "error," according to a court document previously filed.CBSA officers also questioned Meng for three hours, before the police executed a provisional warrant of arrest on December 1.A f...

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  Tesco's Chinese supplier refutes alleged forced labor

  The chairman of the Chinese supplier to British supermarket chain Tesco has rejected allegations the company used forced labor in the production of Christmas cards as "completely fabricated."In an exclusive interview with CGTN on Tuesday, Lu Yunbiao, chairman of Zhejiang Yunguang Printing Company, said claims in the British media that the company used foreign inmates in Shanghai Qingpu prison as forced labor were not based on facts."I was very shocked when I heard of the news, because we never had such practice," Lu told CGTN."I dont have either the telephone number of Qingpu Prison or its address. It is completely fabricated and slanderous. We have never had business relations with Qingpu Prison."He reiterated that all of Yunguangs products were made by Chinese workers, strictly obeying the Chinese employment and labor laws."The batch of the Christmas cards was made by Yunguang company in all processes, from printing to packing, then put into containers for export. I can definitely say they were all produced by Chinese people. I am very angry at such accusations against Chinese companies like this."According to Lu, exports make up about 60 percent of the companys business and overseas clients make regular and random inspections every year on human rights, environmental protection and fire protection."All of our foreign trade clients have strict examinations on us at least once a year and random inspections," the chairman explained."According to our contracts, my company has to be transparent to clients in every aspect, and they can even check our computers. We are very transparent, and very responsible to our clients, and there is nothing to hide in our business."Zhejiang Yunguang Printing Company is located about 150km from Shanghai. /CGTN PhotoPeter Humphrey, a former journalist who was imprisoned in China for 23 months – nine months at Qingpu Prision – on Sunday claimed a six-...