sexta-feira, 23 de maio de 2025
Governo de Trump proíbe Universidade de Harvard de matricular estudantes estrangeiros
O governo de Donald Trump suspendeu a autorização da Universidade de Harvard para matricular estudantes estrangeiros, avança o The New York Times.
“Escrevo-vos para informar que, com efeitos imediatos, a certificação do Programa de Estudantes e Visitantes de Intercâmbio da Universidade de Harvard foi revogada”, escreveu a secretária da Segurança Interna, Kristi Noem, numa carta enviada à universidade.
Segundo o jornal nova-iorquino, os estudantes estrangeiros foram informados pelo Departamento de Segurança Interna, através de um duro comunicado de imprensa, sobre a decisão do Governo: "Isto significa que Harvard já não pode matricular estudantes estrangeiros, e os estudantes estrangeiros existentes devem transferir-se ou perderão o seu estatuto legal."
Esta decisão surge depois de a administração de Donald Trump ter acusado as instituições de ensino superior de permitirem o florescimento do antissemitismo nos seus campus e exigido, numa carta enviada a Harvard no início do último mês, amplas reformas governamentais e de liderança na universidade, bem como mudanças nas suas políticas de admissão, de diversidade no campus e fim do reconhecimento de alguns clubes de estudantes.
Tal foi recusado pelo presidente de Harvard, Alan Garber, e horas mais tarde o governo congelou milhares de milhões de dólares de financiamentos federais, tendo a Universidade apresentado um processo judicial para impedir o congelamento.
A Universidade de Harvard, que se situa perto de Boston e tem cerca de 30 mil estudantes, está há anos firmemente estabelecida no topo da classificação mundial de Xangai dos estabelecimentos de ensino superior.
Cerca de 6800 estudantes estrangeiros frequentaram Harvard neste ano letivo, o que equivale a aproximadamente 27% do total de alunos matriculados, segundo dados da universidade.
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UK: Chemical castration for sex offenders to be trialled in 20 prisons
The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said.
Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south-west England to two regions, after an independent sentencing review recommended it continue.
Mahmood is also exploring a national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, and whether it could be made mandatory. No timeline for this decision has been set.
Forensic psychiatry Prof Don Grubin said he did not think the government would "get the mandatory element of it off the ground" as to "simply make somebody take [the treatment] would be very unethical and...most doctors I know would be resistant to it".
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quinta-feira, 22 de maio de 2025
quarta-feira, 21 de maio de 2025
Pakistani paedophile who abused teenage girls wins battle in fight to stay in UK
A Pakistani paedophile has won a legal battle amid his fight to stay in the UK after arguing he can't be deported.
Child sex offender Jamil Ahmed said he should not be sent back to the nation of his birth because he is worried he will be persecuted there.
His crimes were publicised in his home country and therefore he might face punishment on his return.
Ahmed - who molested multiple teenage girls in Britain - said his crimes were published in newspapers in Pakistan and as a result he could be prosecuted there or attacked by 'religious fanatics'.
He has managed to dodge deportation and remain in Scotland since 2008 when he was convicted of abusing a teenage girl, despite being convicted of a similar offence again in 2013.
Speaking to an asylum court he said it would be against his human rights to kick him out of the UK.
He has now won an appeal after the Home Office tried to deport him and his case will be re-heard.
Ahmed was born in Pakistan but moved to Scotland in 2002 to be with his wife.
The couple had a son and Ahmed was granted leave to remain in 2003. After divorcing he married again in 2006 and had another son in 2007.
He was convicted in 2008 of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl between 13 and 16 years of age and sentenced to a three-year probation order and 240 hours of community service.
In November 2013 he was convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl between 13 and 16 and sexually assaulting a teenager.
He was jailed for three years and six months and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for an indefinite period.
As a result, Ahmed was subjected to a deportation order. However, he has embarked on a near decade-long legal fight to stay in Britain.
He has lost two appeals but has never been removed from the UK.
In 2014, then-Home Secretary Theresa May ordered that Ahmed be deported immediately and that any further legal appeals should be dealt with from Pakistan.
He argued at the time that deportation would separate him from his wife and children, breaching his right to a family life as enshrined in European Convention on Human Rights
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