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A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call asap, changed his clothes and went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy’s father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor.

On seeing him, the father yelled, “Why did you take all this time to come? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have any sense of responsibility?”

The doctor smiled and said, “I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital and I came as fast as I could after receiving the call and now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work”.

“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies while waiting for doctor than what will you do??” said the father angrily. The doctor smiled again and replied, “We will do our best by God’s grace and you should also pray for your son’s healthy life”.

“Giving advises when we’re not concerned is so easy” Murmured the father.

The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy, “Thank goodness! your son is saved!” And without waiting for the father’s reply he carried on his way running by saying, “If you have any questions, ask the nurse”.

“Why is he so arrogant? He couldn’t wait some minutes so that I ask about my son’s state” Commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor left. The nurse answered, tears coming down her face, “His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was at the burial when we called him for your son’s surgery. And now that he saved your son’s life, he left running to finish his son’s burial.”

Judge Finds Oscar Pistorius NOT GUILTY Killing Of Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Oscar Pistorius was found not GUILTY of premeditated murder, and murder, in the Feb. 14, 2024 shooting death of his Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp by Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa in South Africa’s Pretoria Court Thursday.
Masipa said that prosecutors failed to provide “enough facts” to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the paralympian, 27, had intentionally shot the model/reality star.
She said that culpable homicide — indicating the slaying was one of negligence — “is a competent verdict,” though did not formally declare her decision. (A culpable homicide conviction could still lead to years of incarceration.)

The double-amputee, Masipa said, likely thought Steenkamp was in his bedroom when he shot at the bathroom door, believing an intruder was on the other end.
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The “court is satisfied that at the relevant time, the accused could distinguish between right and wrong,” she said.
Prosecutors didn’t prove Pistorius acted with an intent to kill in the deadly incident, the Judge said, also cutting down much of the testimony delivered in the case, saying that the media frenzy hovering over the proceedings contaminated recollections from the 37 witnesses who took the stand.

“Technology is more reliable than human perception and human memory,” she said.
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In one highly-scrutinized detail in the case, Masipa said she believed that high-pitched screams witnesses heard did indeed come from Pistorius, not Steenkamp.
“None of the witnesses had ever heard the accused cry or scream, let alone when he was anxious,” the Judge said. “I continue to explain why most witnesses got their facts wrong.”

Masipa brushed off **** messages the prosecution presented as evidence of the couple’s volatile interactions, saying that “normal relationships are dynamic and unpredictable most of the time, while human beings are fickle.”
The 29-year-old model’s parents Barry and June Steenkamp were in the court Thursday, as were many of Pistorius’ relatives. As he did many times during the actual trial, Pistorius wept during the judge’s speech.
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Federal Judge Orders U.S. to Release Video of Gitmo Force-Feedings

A Judge in the Federal circuit of Washington ruled this afternoon that U.S. officials must make Video available to the public of 28 instances in which they force-fed a hunger-striking Syrian detainee in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Guardian‘s Spencer Ackerman, national security editor for one of the media organizations who had challenged the U.S. administration’s pleas for secrecy,explained the stakes in Judge Gladys Kessler’s ruling to disclose the videos of Abu Wa’el Dhiab being "forcibly removed from his cell and fed through a tube inserted through his nose into his stomach":

The Justice Department and the military only acknowledged the existence of the tapes last year in filings to Kessler.

The tapes will provide unprecedented visibility into a practice that Dhiab and other detainees says amounts to torture, a claim categorically rejected by the Obama administration and the military.

While the government is expected to appeal the decision later on Friday, Kessler ordered that the public versions of the tapes to be released obscure "all faces other than Mr Dhiab’s, voices, names, etc." The unclassified version of the videos "may then be entered on the public docket," Kessler wrote.

The Federal government had argued that publishing videos of the Force-Feedings would give future detainees the knowledge they needed to counter the tactic. U.S. attorneys also claimed the videos would violate the detainees’ rights to privacy under the Geneva Conventions.

Kessler—who blasted the government’s lawyers back in 2024 for defending earlier anti-hunger-strike tactics in Gitmo—laughed those arguments off. The government case, she wrote, "strains credulity."

Though the public has not yet seen actual instances of force-feeding of prisoners in terror detention, there have been several renderings and reenactments of the activity, including the animated short embedded below and this video in which Yasiin Bey, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def, submitted to the process last year.