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Satirical newspaper sums up Mandela sentiment with tongue-in-cheek headline
The satirical American newspaper "The Onion" has pretty well summed up world sentiment about the death of Nelson Mandela with its tongue-in-cheek headline, "Nelson Mandela Becomes First Politician To Be Missed," says Christiane Amanpour.
"Following the death of former South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela today at the age of 95," the post says, "sources confirmed that the revered humanitarian has become the first politician in recorded history to actually be missed."
One year later, brutal rape has affected ‘every aspect of Indian society’
By Mick Krever and Sumnima Udas, CNN
Last December, India was shaken to its social foundations by the brutal gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old woman on a bus ride home from the movies.
The four men who raped her were sentenced to hang; CNN’s Sumnima Udas spoke with the victim’s mother, father and the doctor who examined her, who said she suffered the most atrocious injuries he had ever seen.
The case has affected “every aspect of Indian society,” Kiran Bedi, India's first high-ranking female police officer and now a social activist told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“It's made the criminal justice system move – whether it's the policing, whether it's the prosecution, whether the judiciary, even the legislature.”
Whenever there is an instance of sexual abuse in India – no matter how far flung the locale – the media is doing a better job of promoting awareness.
“The questions are asked: What is the political system doing or…how is the criminal justice system responding,” she said. They are “all on notice.”
F.W. de Klerk talks about Mandela's passing
F.W. de Klerk was the last leader of white South Africa, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela for helping to end apartheid.
He mourned Mandela in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, just after Mandela's death was announced.
Click above to watch Amanpour's interview with de Klerk.
Egyptian Father says his jailed daughter was ‘raised to speak her mind freely’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Few cases exemplify the state of Egypt today like the arrest of Ola Ezzat.
She and 20 other young women and girls – seven of them underage – were at a peaceful, pro-Muslim Brotherhood protest in Alexandria when they were picked up the police.
They were sentenced to 11 years plus one month in prison.
On Thursday, CNN’s Christiane Amanour spoke with Ola’s father, Alaa Eldin Ezzat, from Cairo.
“She is strong,” Ezzat said, whose wife visited their daughter earlier in the day. “She sent a message saying that ‘I will continue what I am doing and I am proud of it.’”
Egyptian state attempting to stifle all activism and protest, says Human Rights Watch
By Mick Krever, CNN
The arrest and sentencing to 11 years in prison of 21 young women at a Muslim Brotherhood protest was designed to send a single message, says Human Rights Watch: “stop protesting.”
“These women were peacefully protesting and have been sentenced to this disproportionately high and crazy sentence,” Heba Morayef, director of the Middle East and North Africa Division for Human Rights Watch, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“To put it into perspective, one of the only police officers sentenced for killing protesters was given three years,” she said. “The message there is that it doesn't matter if they're women; it doesn't matter if they are young – we will sentence protesters.”
Egyptian prosecutors on Thursday laid their first charges under new laws outlawing protest “resisting authorities,” against leading political activist Ahmed Maher.
CNN on the ground in deteriorating Central African Republic
The Central African Republic, a country in rolling crises almost since its independence in 1960, is spinning ever closer to catastrophe.
Muslim and Christian vigilantes are locked in bloody battle. As civilians fear for their lives, a small contingent of French and African troops are trying to stabilize the situation.
Documenting this situation is exceedingly dangerous for journalists, but CNN’s Nima Elbagir was able to talk to Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday from Bossangoa, where tens of thousands of people are seeking refuge.
“Even just having spent a few hours here, you do get this sense of such a tense, tense standoff,” she said. “I’m from Sudan, and I covered Darfur for years, and this just felt so chillingly reminiscent.”
Click above to see her full report.
U.N. warns against another ‘never again’ situation in Africa
By Mick Krever, CNN
The U.N. Deputy Secretary-General warned on Wednesday against having once again to say “never again” over the on-going bloodletting in the Central African Republic.
“The Secretary General and I are rather, I would say, disappointed, that we so often use the term ‘never again,’” Jan Eliasson told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “The very fact that we repeat ‘never again’ I think is a sign that it’s about time that we act on serious human rights violations early on.”
“Serious human rights violations are the first signs of something that could turn into mass atrocities,” he said. “And now this time we are acting late, I must admit, but hopefully not too late.”
Le Monde editor explains opposition to proposed French prostitution law
By Mick Krever, CNN
A law in France that would criminalize paying for sex is an incursion into citizens’ private lives and decisions, Natalie Nougayrede, editor of Le Monde, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“If you criminalize the client, basically you’re saying that any paid sex is wrong,” she said from France. “And that actually cancels any notion that a person – a woman or a man – may want to actually on his own or her own free will carry out this act of prostitution.”
Right now prostitution is legal in France. But on Wednesday, lawmakers in France’s lower house passed a bill that would make paying for sex – though not taking money for sex – a criminal offense punishable by a 1,500 euro fine, or 3,750 euros for repeat offenders.
On vacation, poverty is the new luxury
By Lucky Gold, CNN
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” – the long-awaited biopic of the life of Nelson Mandela – opened last week to glowing reviews in New York and Los Angeles.
It is opening this week in London, and has already has broken the box office record in Mandela's homeland of South Africa.
It was sixteen years in the making; so much in the rainbow nation has changed that filmmakers had to find new locations for iconic sites like the infamous shanty-town of Soweto, where middle-class housing and shopping malls have replaced many of the dusty streets where Mandela once walked.
Now imagine a world where you can experience the old Soweto – complete with central heating, optional breakfast and Wi-Fi.
Emoya Luxury Hotel and Spa – a five-star game resort some 250 miles from the real Soweto – is offering a safe and sanitized shanty town experience for its wealthy tourist trade.
Picasso’s grandson raffles off painting, at 100 euros a ticket, to save ancient city
By Mick Krever and Claire Calzonetti, CNN
Pablo Picasso’s grandson is raffling off a million-dollar painting for the cost of a 100 euro raffle ticket – and it’s all to save an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon.
50,000 raffle tickets are up grabs for a chance to win “The Man with the Opera Hat,” a cubist work nearly 100 years old. All proceeds will go to finance two arts and cultural projects in the UNESCO World Heritage city.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour spoke with Olivier Picasso – the painter’s grandson and the public face of the initiative – sitting in front of the small canvas.
“It's something that normally you find in a museum,” Picasso said. Sitting next to it, in person, not seeing it in a book, is a whole different ballgame, he said.
“When you are in contact with something that my grandfather, that Picasso, touched, it's really a different feeling.”
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