■BRAZIL
Man filmed women in loo
A man accused of illicitly filming more than 2,000 women in his workplace toilet with his cellphone has been ordered by a judge to pay damages of US$14,700 in the first of six cases brought against him by victims. Frederico Freire Lemos was charged with photographing the women in compromising positions with his phone at the offices of the Brazil Union of Composers, where he was executive director. He was caught when one worker glimpsed a red light while on the toilet and discovered that it was a hidden camera phone.
■UNITED STATES
Freed reporter arrives in US
Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi said on Friday she was “happy to be back in the United States” after spending four months in an Iranian jail. Saberi, who left Iran one week ago and first traveled with her mother, father, brother and a family friend to Vienna, Austria, arrived on Friday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. “I am so happy to be back in the United States,” Saberi told a friend while flanked by two police officers. “One thing that kept me alive was singing the national anthem to myself,” she told dozens of reporters. The 32-year-old US-born journalist walked free from the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on May 11 after a court reduced her prison term for spying to a two-year suspended sentence, ending a four-month ordeal.
■CANADA
Terror plotter sentenced
A young man was sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in jail for participating in a major jihadist terror plot in 2006, a justice official said. The young man, who was 17 years old when he was arrested in 2006 in a police sting along with 17 other suspects in the case, was found guilty in September of “terrorist activity.” A spokesman for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said “he was sentenced today as an adult to two-and-a-half years, but is also immediately eligible for release” as he was detained for three years while awaiting trial. He was also put on three years probation, prohibited from possessing a firearm and required to provide a DNA sample to police, the official said.
■UNITED STATES
Dad gets jail for poison
A father was sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his two children to extort money from Campbell Soup Co. William Cunningham was sentenced on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of five counts of cruelty to children and two counts of aggravated assault, said Kellie Perry, a clerk at the Clayton County Superior Court in Georgia. The girl and boy, then 18 months old and three years old, were hospitalized after Cunningham fed them soup tainted with prescription drugs and lighter fluid. On one occasion, authorities said he used the prescription drugs Prozac and Amitriptyline to poison the children. Cunningham was arrested in March 2006.
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