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Chapter 215: Returning Journey (part two)
The dusk thickened, Long Yi wandered around somewhat absently on the small path of the mountain behind Holy Magic Academy, and Barbarian Bull was quietly following behind him. They two had just eaten a dinner, and Long Yi had basically wanted to call Ximen Wuhen and Long Ling'er, but they weren't in the dormitory, and he didn't know where they went.
Long Yi was feeling indescribable feeling towards returning to Soaring Dragon City in his heart. The reason why he wanted to return on the instruction of Ximen Nu was because he was looking for more excitement.
When Long Yi was lost in thought, his heart suddenly skipped the beat, and a sharp aura pounced him head-on. After that, Long Yi suddenly stopped, then looked towards the dense forest of the right side with squinted eyes.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Barbarian Bull as if sensed nothing, confusedly asked Long Yi, seeing him stop all of a sudden.
The squinted eyes of Long Yi slowly returned to normal, then said to Barbarian Bull with a smile: "You can return first, I still have something to do."
Barbarian Bull hesitated, although he will not defy the instruction of Long Yi, but sensing that sharp blade like qi emitted by Long Yi just a moment ago, he clearly knew that that was Long Yi's instinctual reaction towards danger.
"There is my friend over there, not enemy, you can rest assured." Long Yi smiled and patted the shoulder of Barbarian Bull. Compared to the first time he had met Burly, now he was much matured.
"Oh, then I will leave first, be careful, Boss." Barbarian Bull felt relieved, then turning around, he left.
Long Yi smirked, then as if a roc, he shot towards the dense forest of the right side. And when he landed on the ground, he saw a shadow going towards the summit of the mountain, and Long Yi naturally followed after.
Not long after, this shadow stopped above the large stone of the mountain's summit, then slowly turned around, revealing a still attractive face.
"Big sis, out for a walk?" Long Yi smiled and asked. This mysterious female Sword Saint was looking for him, but he didn't know why.
Female Sword Saint smiled faintly and said indifferently: "I heard you are returning tomorrow, is that true?"
Long Yi nodded his head. He was not surprised about why and how she knew. But, if she didn't know then that will be the surprising matter.
Female Sword Saint fixedly stared at Long Yi, and a trace of recalling hue appeared in her eyes.
"Big sis, do I look like my grandfather?" Long Yi smirked and said.
Female Sword Saint came back to her senses, then lightly smiling, she shook her head, and as if she was self-mocking, she said: "No, you and your grandfather do not look alike at all, but your temperament as well as smiling appearance are very alike."
"Hehe, is that so? I want to ask you a question, why didn't you and my grandfather come together?" Looking at female Sword Saint, Long Yi asked.
Female Sword Saint was startled, then gently sighing, she said: "At that time, your grandfather was just like you, elegant and unrestrained. But he was too promiscuous, and I can't bear to share my husband with other girls. Like that, we finally fell out."
"Are you regretting now?" Long Yi asked. He was secretly alert in his heart because the example of love giving birth to hate could be found everywhere.
"Regret? Merely have sorrow, but if you ask me to choose again, then I will still choose to leave him." Female Sword Saint faintly said. Then suddenly sighing, she said with a smile: "What am I doing saying you these things. I was looking for you to give you something." Female Sword Saint said, then taking out a silver-white necklace from her neck, she gave it to Long Yi.
The moment Long Yi took the necklace, he felt ice-cold in his hand, and dazzling radiance spilled out of this necklace. Moreover, a silver moon of the sky was engraved on it.
"This is?" Long Yi asked.
"This is Wall of Revolving Ice, a divine rank defense magic accessory. At that time, I used it to reflect your lightning and thunder." Female Sword Saint indifferently said.
Long Yi was startled. This was a peerless treasure. Such treasure that was able to completely reflect the enemy's attacks as sudden as a flash of lightning, he feared that it was difficult to find the second one in the entire world.
"This……why?" Long Yi muttered. This thing was truly too precious, and she was giving this to him for no reason, so his heart was somewhat uneasy.
"Treat it as a fate which brings people together and accept it with ease. You don't need to worry about Long Ling'er and Ximen Wuhen, I will protect them in secret. Moreover, Long clan and Ximen clan each have powerful experts protecting them in secret. They will absolutely be fine." Female Sword Saint said.
Since she had said so herself, making an excuse to not accept it would be too unreasonable. So, Long Yi wore this necklace around his neck. And having heard the words of female Sword Saint, he suddenly recalled the incident of that time when Ximen Wuhen was nearly sullied by the second prince of Proud Moon Empire in the woods, so he immediately said: "If someone is really protecting her in secret, then my little sister wouldn't have suffered the incident of that time."
Female Sword Saint was dumbfounded, then she suddenly smiled and said: "Are you talking about that night when you arrived at Mea Holy Magic Academy for the first time? If you hadn't gone to save there, then someone else would have."
The complexion of Long Yi changed, so this means, at that time, there was someone around, but he was unable to sense their presence at all. Although at that time, his strength was far from his current strength, but ordinary people would still be unable to approach him without him sensing their presence first. This shows, this world really had hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
"Well, it's getting late, you should return." Female Sword Saint waved her hand, then turning around, she stared towards the distant place, no longer talking to him.
Long Yi looked at Female Sword Saint's that missing expression for a while and then flew away.
"Xiao Yi, why aren't you sleeping this late at night?" Tyrant Bear returned after drinking wine with his comrades, and seeing his younger sister Xiao Yi was standing in the middle of the courtyard, looking towards the sky and thinking something just after opening the door, he asked.
Xiao Yi looked over and her transparent pupils restored a little bit of warmth and said indifferently: "I wasn't able to sleep, so I came out to take a breather."
Tyrant Bear approached Xiao Yi, then carefully looking at his younger sister, feeling familiar and again somewhat unfamiliar. It was very hard for him to understand what she was always pondering like this.
"Big brother, why on earth are you looking at me like this?" Seeing Tyrant Bear was fixedly staring at her, she questioningly asked.
Tyrant Bear smiled and patted the little shoulder of Xiao Yi. He wasn't stupid and had already sensed that something had happened between Long Yi and Xiao Yi. But he also didn't know what exactly happened. When he asked Xiao Yi, she would say no more than a single word.
"Xiao Yi, my subordinates reported me that Young Master has returned today, when do you think he will lead us away?" Tyrant Bear asked.
"Soon, maybe in next few days." Xiao Yi looked up towards starry sky. She knew that that unusually dazzling star that was encircled by many stars was Long Yi's fate constellation.
Tyrant Bear nodded his head. Now he was somewhat excited and he tightened his grip on the huge sword, as he, Tyrant Bear was about to set foot on a journey to realize his dream.
Suddenly, as if she sensed something, Xiao Yi covered her rapidly beating heart, then muttered: "Came, he came."
Tyrant Bear was dumbfounded, and before he had time to react to the words of Xiao Yi, a figure descended from the sky and stood in front of them.
"Young Master, Tyrant Bear pays respect to Young Master." Tyrant Bear immediately bowed and greeted.
Xiao Yi also paid her respect, while standing alone on one side.
"Tyrant Bear, we'll be leaving early in the morning tomorrow, notify brothers to make preparations." Long Yi indifferently said, and his tone contained powerful might.
"Yes, Young Master." Tyrant Bear immediately ran out just like a gust of wind.
Now, at this moment, only Xiao Yi and Long Yi remained. And after being silent for a long time, Xiao Yi said: "Master, please come inside and have a cup of tea."
"Call me Young Master just like your big brother." Long Yi said, then passing by Xiao Yi, he walked into the hall.
Xiao Yi brewed a kettle of tea, and after quietly pouring a cup of tea for Long Yi, she stood behind him without speaking.
"Xiao Yi, your Young Master's shoulders are stiff, help me massage them." Long Yi indifferently said. He always had a knot in his heart towards Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi was startled, still biting her lower lip, she placed her little hand on the shoulders of Long Yi, then lightly kneaded. Despite some resistance in her heart, she however discovered that a warmth was coming through his body, making her feel warm. While kneading, Xiao Yi suddenly recalled every aspect of the time she had with Long Yi. Before their relation was not like this. At that time, unsociable and eccentric her had a little bit of girlish longing towards Long Yi, this man who had intruded in her life. But now, the relationship between them however had gone completely bad.
Unconsciously, a teardrop slid down from her transparent pupil, and fell onto the collar of Long Yi, quickly permeating and wetting his skin. This made his heart to tremble a bit. Long Yi and Xiao Yi possessed the relation of blood contract, so he was naturally aware of her current chaotic state of mind.
Long Yi also wanted to forgive Xiao Yi, wanted to treat as if everything had never happened, and again get along with her just like before. But was this possible? No, what happened after all was, she had used his trust on her, and he was unable to dismiss this from his mind.
The state of mind of Long Yi got chaotic, and suddenly getting up, he shook off the hands on his shoulder. And because the strength of shaking off was great, Xiao Yi was unable to bear and tumbling few steps back, she fell to the ground. Then she looked at him with a pair of grieved transparent eyes.
Long Yi lightly sighed, then walking to the front of Xiao Yi, he helped her to stand up, but Xiao Yi as if had lost all of her strength leaned on his bosom. And only after hugging for a long time as if a pair of a lover, Xiao Yi lightly pushed Long Yi away, then with her transparent eyes flashing all of a sudden, in this instant, Long Yi seemed to have seen a shrunk version of the universe. And before he was able to understand what was going on, he suddenly felt a soft and warm thing on his lips, so he immediately retreated.
"What are you doing?" Long Yi asked in surprise.
"Kissing you, Young Master." Xiao Yi lowered her head and answered.
Uh……Long Yi was speechless. Anyway, he felt there was something not too normal, but feeling a bit, he again didn't see anything different with Xiao Yi.
"It's already very late, how about staying here for the night, Young Master?" Xiao Yi raised her head and softly asked.
"No, I'm leaving, prepare for tomorrow." Long Yi confusedly looked at Xiao Yi, then disappeared from that place.
Xiao Yi straightened up her body, then slightly opening her lips, a white light came out from her mouth and floated in the air. This unexpectedly was a small bead.
"Young Master, there will come a day when you will forgive Xiao Yi, but at that time, you might have to miss Xiao Yi." Xiao Yi muttered, then raising her hand, she grabbed the white colored bead.
Just after entering the dormitory, Long Yi heard Barbarian Bull's that heaven shaking snoring sound. If it was not for comparatively better sound insulation barrier between the dormitory rooms, then this snore of Barbarian Bull would have already arisen public indignation. While laughing inwardly, Long Yi suddenly paused all of a sudden, then turning around, he couldn't help laughing and thought: "This girl, I knew that you will absolutely come here."
Long Yi pushed open the door of the bedroom and saw Long Ling'er was sleeping on the bed with brocade quilt covering her body, and her pitch-black smooth hair was spared out like a waterfall on the pillow.
Long Yi lightly walked over to the edge of the bed, and with the help of moonlight, he carefully looked at that peaceful beautiful face.
"Worthy of being I, Long Yi's woman, even while sleeping, she is so beautiful." Long Yi mumbled. There was an unspeakable sense of pride in his tone, and he felt very lucky to have such woman belonging to him.
Long Yi didn't want to wake up Long Ling'er, so he went to the bathroom and take a bath. And after bathing, he lied down naked and entered inside her quilt. And then, he discovered that Long Ling'er was also stark naked inside.
"The hell, this girl is intentionally seducing me tonight." Long Yi yelled in his heart. Then his little brother touched Long Ling'er's pert buttocks, immediately declaring a war.
And while Long Ling'er was still asleep, as if she sensed approaching Long Yi and smelled that familiar smell, she turned over and stuck in the bosom of Long Yi. This, in turn, made little Long Yi to easily poke at the soft place between the legs of Long Ling'er.
With the charming body of Long Ling'er sticking close to him, Long Yi ** became boiling hot, and his waist involuntarily moved forward.
"Ng, Long Yi." The eyelash of Long Ling'er moved slightly and she muttered as if she was still in between half-awake and half-asleep state.
The lower part of the body of two people rubbed against each other, and Long Ling'er also cooperated subconsciously. And when the waist of Long Yi was pushing forward, he charged into a warm place. He had unexpectedly intruded into a forbidden area.
The entire body of Long Ling'er suddenly quivered, and she immediately opened her eyes with fear. But seeing Long Yi, the fear disappeared and was replaced by dense passionate **.
"Smelly Long Yi, you dare to attack me sneakily. Look, how I will take care of you." Long Ling'er turned over and pushed down Long Yi, then climbing over, she sat on the waist of Long Yi with Long Yi's little brother inside of her, then she began to move up and down. With master control in her hand, it looked like she wanted to compete with Long Yi as if she had already forgotten about the consequence of the battle with Long Yi of that time.
While Long Ling'er moved up and down, her snow-white buttocks rose and fell, and her chest's pair of ** also flew up and down, instantly enchanting people.
Long Yi wanted to seize back the control quite a few times, but Long Ling'er firmly pushed him down.
While punishing him with **, Long Ling'er had already reached close to ** quite a few times, and finally, with a loud and long moan, she limply fell to the bosom of Long Yi, then her charming body quivered.
"Now, are you on the point of dying? Who asked you to try to be brave?" Long Yi smiled and thought to turn over and showcase the man's integrity, but hearing muffled sobbing of Long Ling'er on his chest, his suddenly cooled down.
"Long Yi, I don't want to leave you, I don't want to leave you." Long Ling'er sobbed in the bosom of Long Yi.
Long Yi's ** disappeared, then hugging the head of Long Ling'er, he felt anguished seeing her face covered with tears. He felt that he was a bastard for always making his women shed tears.
Long Yi tuned over while hugging Long Ling'er, and just when he thought to withdraw his still burning hot hard-on, Long Ling'er pushed down her waist and muttered: "Don't, don't, just stay within my body, so that I can feel that our souls are fused together."
Having heard what was said, Long Yi stopped his movement, and two people stayed together while tightly hugging each other.
"Don't forget me, be sure to not forget me, I will always be waiting for you here, waiting for you to come and meet me here." Long Ling'er muttered as if she was talking in her sleep, and her hands firmly grabbed the sturdy back of Long Yi.
"I will not, Ling'er is my darling, how can I ever forget you?" Long Yi lightly patted the back of Long Ling'er and said.
Hearing this, Long Ling'er showed a slight smile, then tightening her hold, she muttered: "Then, come to look for me as quickly as possible, okay?"
"M-hm, there will come a day, when I will wear golden armor and saint clothing, then treading on the rainbow-colored auspicious clouds, I will come and marry you before all the people, and you will become I, Long Yi's wife forever, even in next life and the next life after that next life." Long Yi warmly said in the ear of Long Ling'er. This sentence seemed to be the actor's line of the certain famous movie in his past incarnation.
Long Ling'er's smile slowly widened, and her face which was full of tears revealed a big happy smile as if she was thinking of the circumstance stated by Long Yi.
Time passed little by little, but Long Yi didn't feel sleepy at all, and as for Long Ling'er, she had already fallen asleep in his bosom.
Finally, the sky brightened, and the time to part arrived.
"Ling'er, wake up." Long Yi lightly called out to Long Ling'er in his bosom, but she didn't react, still had her eyes closed.
And even after he called out again, she still had her eyes closed without any intention to wake up, yes, no intention, Long Yi already knew that she woke up long ago. It might be assumed that she was unwilling to face the emotional parting.
Long Yi sighed, then sit up on the bed, but he unexpectedly felt the little hand of Long Ling'er was firmly catching the hold of his arm.
"Long Yi, I beg you…I beg you, please don't hurt my father emperor, regardless of anything, please don't hurt him." Long Ling'er still with her eyes closed said in a trembling voice.
Long Yi was startled all of a sudden. She as a princess of an imperial clan, how could she don't have this small amount of political sensitivity? She already knew about Ximen clan and her Long clan's open strife and veiled struggle, and also knew the undercurrent of Soaring Dragon City, merely she always pretended to know nothing in front of him, because she was unwilling to face the choice between her clan and her love. This was the most difficult choice ever in this entire world.
After being silent for a long time, Long Yi made a decision in his heart, and said softly: "I promise you, if the matter reached the degree where it cannot be put in order, I will absolutely try my best."
The little hand of Long Ling'er catching the arm of Long Yi slowly loosened. Although she was not very clear about the words of Long Yi, but she already obtained the answer of her wish.
Long Ling'er retracted her little hand inside the quilt, then pretended to be asleep again.
"Take care, Ling'er." Long Yi bend over and kissed her, then wearing the clothing, he opened the door of the bedroom. After that, take a look at Long Ling'er for the last time, he walked out and closed the door.
Already prepared Barbarian Bull was standing in the hall waiting for Long Yi. And when he saw Long Yi coming out, he immediately said excitedly: "Boss, aren't we setting out?"
"Yes." Long Yi nodded his head, then after looking at this dormitory room where he had so many memories once again, he led Barbarian Bull and walked out of the dormitory building.
"Second brother." Just after he walked out, he heard Ximen Wuhen's crisp voice.
Long Yi turned his head and saw Ximen Wuhen was standing not far away, and beside her, there was Shui Ruoyan, this beautiful woman.
"Damn Long Yi, weren't you going to leave without informing me? If it were not for me asking Wuhen, then I wouldn't have known you would leave this morning. Are you thinking of abandoning me?" Shui Ruoyan stepped forward, then fiercely pinching the soft flesh of Long Yi's waist, she said. She was obviously very discontented with the way he was doing things.
"No, I don't. I was only unwilling to see your crying face, moreover, it's not like I will not return." Long Yi begged for mercy, frankly telling his thoughts.
"Cry, who will cry, do you think I am so frail?" Shu Ruoyan angrily said.
Long Yi looked towards the sky for a bit, then stepping forward all of a sudden, his used his big mouth to seal her little mouth. And this long suffocating kiss made Shui Ruoyan's eyes misty. And seeing this, Ximen Wuhen got jealous.
After Long Yi let go of Shui Ruoyan, Ximen Wuhen pinched the sleeve of Long Yi's robe and said: "Second brother, I want it too."
Long Yi couldn't help laughing looking at Ximen Wuhen, then stepping forward, he kissed her left cheek, but who would have thought that Ximen Wuhen would suddenly turn around, causing her soft lips to touch intimately with the lips of Long Yi.
"Little sister, you…" Long Yi was stunned, looking at the beautiful face of Ximen Wuhen flushed with red. He had never thought that Ximen Wuhen would make such moves.
"What you, smelly second brother, I lost greatly this time. I only wanted to ask you where Ling'er is, but who would have thought that you would come to kiss me like this?" Ximen Wuhen glared at Long Yi and said angrily, pushing all the blames to Long Yi.
Long Yi rolled his eyes, then raising his head, he looked up. Although he wasn't able to see inside the magic glass, but he was sensing a figure was affectionately looking at him from inside.
"Ling'er is above, you all also go there, you don't need to send me off." Long Yi sighed and said, then grabbing Barbarian Bull, he soared away.
At this moment, the window of the dormitory room suddenly opened, and Long Ling'er bore out her head, then looking towards the disappearing figure in the sky, she became dazed.
In the eastern city gate of Mea Principality, Tyrannical Bear Mercenary Group had already gathered together and were standing in a proper formation, they were waiting for the arrival of Long Yi. Each and every one of them was riding a sturdy unicorn. And behind them, there was a gorgeous carriage, and Xiao Yi was inside the carriage.
Long Yi carrying Barbarian Bull appeared out of thin air in front of this organized troops. And seeing the appearance of Long Yi, Tyrant Bear immediately stepped forward two steps, then fell down to one knee, and hundreds of mercenaries behind him also knelt down with a thunderous noise, and said in unison: "We pay respect to Young Master."
This action of Tyrannical Bear Mercenary Group stunned the on-looking people as well as the guard soldiers all around them. They had thought that Tyrant Bear Mercenary Group was about to set out on a mission, but as it now seems, they belong to this youngster. This however was a big news in mercenaries' world.
The mercenaries' world had a rule, once mercenary group became affiliated with any force or any individual, then that mercenary group could no longer participate in the ranks of mercenaries' realm. And this Tyrannical Bear Mercenary Group was a B ranked mercenary group, and as long as they complete the upcoming promotion mission, they however would have become A ranked mercenary group, but now they could no longer be ranked. Naturally, they could still participate in this Mercenary Conventio and complete the mission to obtain only the reward.
"No need for formalities." Long Yi indifferently said, and his voice was clearly transmitted into the ears of everyone.
Long Yi introduced Barbarian Bull and Tyrant Bear to each other. And these two people compete in hand power as soon as they meet, and the result was a draw, no-one occupied the advantage. Then with them two admiring each other, they quickly became close.
Long Yi looked towards the sky, and again looking at the onlookers around them, he waved his hand and shouted: "Set out."
The entire group of people simultaneously mount on their horse, then with the surge of smoke and dust, they disappeared from the eastern gate of Mea Principality.


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AZERBAIJAN: Imprisoned for pistol or prayer room?
By Felix Corley, Forum 18
Nine Sunni Muslims arriving for lunchtime prayers on 13 November at a prayer room in a Sumgait home were detained by plain clothes police, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Masked, armed police then stormed the home and searched it, claiming to find weapons. The nine were beaten and humiliated by police officers before release that evening, several confirmed to local news agencies. The home owner, Zohrab Shikhaliyev, was arrested elsewhere in Sumgait that day. On 15 November a court in Azerbaijan's capital Baku ordered him held in two months' pre-trial detention as a criminal case is investigated. Although Shikhaliyev's prayer room has functioned for two years, about six months ago officials started accusing him of "illegally" providing a space where Sunni Muslims might worship, Gamet Suleymanov, imam of Baku's closed Abu Bekr Sunni mosque, told Forum 18. Meanwhile, the criminal case against three Baku-based Muslims - who spent up to five months under criminal investigation in pre-trial detention at the NSM secret police for holding a religious education meeting - has now been handed to a Baku court and their trial is expected soon.
Relatives and friends of arrested Sunni Muslim Zohrab Shikhaliyev have rejected official claims that he had illegal weapons and ammunition in his home in Sumgait [Sumqayit], north of Azerbaijan's capital Baku. They insist the charges have been fabricated to punish him for offering his home for Muslim prayers, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Others detained for several hours the same day Shikhaliyev was arrested – including two invalid veterans of the Karabakh war - complain that police officers beat and humiliated them.
The 36-year-old Shikhaliyev was arrested in Sumgait by the Police Department for the Fight Against Organised Crime and Sumgait Town Police on 13 November, the Interior Ministry noted on its website the same day. The same day armed and masked police raided his home. On 15 November, Baku's Narimanov District Court ordered Shikhaliyev's detention for two months in pre-trial custody as criminal charges are being investigated, the court confirmed to Forum 18.
The government and the state-backed Caucasian Muslim Board have been waging what appears to have been a systematic campaign to suppress specifically Sunni Muslim places of worship. The Lezgin Mosque - one of just two specifically Sunni Muslim mosques still open in Baku – has been threatened with closure using renovation as an excuse (see F18News 14 August 2014 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1985).
All Baku's other Sunni mosques - such as the Abu Bekr Mosque and the Martyrs' Mosque, also known as the Turkish Mosque, near parliament - have been closed by the authorities on various pretexts since 2008. The only Sunni Muslim mosque in Azerbaijan's second city Gyanja [Gäncä] was also forcibly closed in 2009 (see F18News 18 September 2009 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1350).
Another Sunni mosque, in Mushfiqabad near Baku, was transferred to new control in spring 2014. Unnamed officials of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations said in March that the old community which ran the mosque had "dissolved itself". Muslims close to the community denied this to Forum 18. The mosque is no longer specifically Sunni (see F18News 28 May 2014 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1962).
The government is also hostile to all Islamic activity it does not control. For example, the largest current group of prisoners of conscience jailed on grounds of freedom of religion or belief are a group of Muslim men arrested in October 2012 for protesting against a ban on girls wearing a headscarf (hijab) in schools. Twelve are still in prison (see below).
"Not one Sunni mosque" in Sumgait
Shikhaliyev's brother Samir rejects all accusations against Zohrab Shikhaliyev. "He always spoke up against religious radicalism and stressed that Islam rejects violence," he told Caucasian Knot news agency. "He opened a prayer room in the yard of his home only because even in such a large town as Sumgait there is not one Sunni mosque."
Samir Shikhaliyev insisted that his brother had opened the prayer room to Muslims wishing to pray the namaz (Muslim prayer) and had not hidden his activity. "Law enforcement agencies and the local authorities had known about this," he told Caucasian Knot. "An official from Sumgait town administration had even come to see it."
Also defending Zohrab Shikhaliyev is Gamet Suleymanov, imam of Baku's closed Abu Bekr Sunni mosque. "I know Zohrab very well," he told Forum 18 from Baku on 17 November. "He is a Salafi Muslim and is not radical – indeed, he opposes radicalism. He is not against the state."
Suleymanov noted that although Shikhaliyev's prayer room has functioned for two years, about six months ago officials started accusing him of "illegally" providing a space where Sunni Muslims might worship.
Arrests, search
Plain clothed police officers arrested nine Muslims – among them Samir Shikhaliyev - as they arrived for prayers at Shikhaliyev's home in the village of Corat on the south-eastern edge of Sumgait at about 12 noon on 13 November. "After we were arrested, masked men burst into the yard and began a search, despite the fact that no men were present at the time in the house," Samir Shikhaliyev told Caucasian Knot.
Police claim to have discovered a Walther pistol and three bullets, 48 other bullets of various calibres, three grenades, six detonators and two memory cards from security cameras. They also claim to have seized 500 items of religious literature and 210 discs, according to the Interior Ministry website. It did not identify the seized literature or discs.
Samir Shikhaliyev insisted to Caucasian Knot that his brother had no weapons. "They themselves planted the weapons."
Police beatings
Police then took the nine men by car to the town police station. The nine were "subjected to insults and humiliation" from officers before being freed that evening, Samir Shikhaliyev said.
Another of those detained, Zaur Mehdiyev, similarly recounted abuse. An invalid from the Karabakh war of the early 1990s, he told the local Turan news agency he had been put in handcuffs and beaten. "They beat me on my back and head," he told Turan. "I told them I had been wounded and still had shrapnel in my body, but they carried on beating me." He said he and several others later had to seek medical treatment.
Another Karabakh war invalid among those detained, Vidadi Maherramli, told Turan officers had beaten him in the kidneys and in the places where he had suffered war wounds.
Mehdiyev told Caucasian Knot that the men had been told to report back to the police the following day after shaving off their beards. He said they had refused to remove their beards or return to the police station.
Several of those detained wrote complaints to President Ilham Aliyev, Human Rights Ombudsperson Elmira Suleymanova, the General Prosecutor's Office and other agencies. One of the detainees, Russian citizen Rashad Sultanov, pledged that he would not let the abuse go unchallenged. He had arrived back in Sumgait only the day before the raid and the arrests, he told Turan.
Those detained fear that administrative or criminal punishments might be handed down on them also.
Arrested in his car
Zohrab Shikhaliyev himself was arrested at about noon the same day in his car elsewhere in Sumgait. His car has not been seen since, Samir Shikhaliyev noted. Officers assigned a lawyer to him, a former police officer named Alesker. However, after Zohrab Shikhaliyev was transferred to police custody in Baku, the lawyer seems to have abandoned him, telling relatives that "another lawyer had been given to him".
An official of Narimanov District Court chancellery declined to tell Forum 18 on 17 November which Judge had ordered Shikhaliyev's pre-trial detention on the afternoon of 15 November, who had defended him in court and why the case had not been heard in Sumgait.
No officials reached by Forum 18 on 17 November were prepared to answer any questions about Shikhaliyev's arrest or the maltreatment of the other detainees. An aide to Seyfulla Azimov, the newly-appointed head of the Police's Department for the Fight Against Organised Crime, told Forum 18 from Baku he had no information on the case. Captain Mehman Huseynov, head of Corat police, refused to answer any questions.
Duty officers at Sumgait Police Station would not put Forum 18 through to town police chief Major-General Sahib Mirzayev. Nor would anyone else answer questions on Shikhaliyev's arrest or the maltreatment of the other detainees.
Similarly, Azer Abbasov, the Sumgait and Absheron regional representative for the State Committee, would not answer any questions.
However, Mubariz Qurbanli, head of the State Committee, defended the raid and arrests to the local APA news agency on 14 November as "completely legal and necessary". "These people in fact created a structure similar to a terrorist cell," he claimed. He insisted that police elsewhere will continue with further such operations, while his Committee would continue to counter "radical religious ideologies".
Since his appointment to head the State Committee in July, Qurbanli, has rejected the right of individuals to conduct religious work, the right of mosques to choose their own leaders, the right of individuals to interpret the Koran for themselves, the right to distribute religious literature uncensored, and the right to share one's faith (see F18News 22 September 2014 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1999).
Prison punishment
Meanwhile, in mid-October prison officials sent imprisoned Islamic preacher and theologian Taleh Bagirov to the punishment cell in Labour Camp No. 12 in the village of Puta where he is serving his sentence. "Initially he was given one week, then they added on a further month," his lawyer Javad Javadov told Forum 18 from Baku on 18 November. "He is now due out on 23 November."
Bagirov was formally put in the punishment cell for failing to obey camp officials. "This is the usual excuse," Javadov said. "The real reason was to prevent him addressing other prisoners in the special month of Muharram, which is sacred particularly to Shia Muslims."
Bagirov does not have access to religious literature in the punishment cell, nor can he meet relatives during that time. He can pray there, Javadov told Forum 18.
The 30-year-old Bagirov (also known as Bagirzade) was given a two-year strict regime prison sentence in November 2013. He was found guilty of possessing just over one gram of heroin under Criminal Code Article 234.1. His supporters insist the case was fabricated to punish him for his religious and political activity. His driver Anar Melikov had earlier been given a 19-month prison term in August 2013 (see F18News 7 November 2013 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1894).
At a further trial in August 2014, a Baku court sentenced Bagirov to an extra four months' imprisonment for allegedly having an illegal mobile phone in his cell (see F18News 14 August 2014 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1985).
Anti-hijab ban prisoners of conscience
The largest number of prisoners of conscience jailed on grounds of freedom of religion or belief are a group of men arrested for protesting against a 2010 Education Ministry ban on girls wearing a headscarf (hijab) in schools. Street protests in Baku were held in December 2010, May 2011 and – a much larger protest – in October 2012.
Twelve of those arrested in connection with the October 2012 protest are still in prison. All but one were convicted under Criminal Code Article 233 ("Organisation of actions promoting infringement of a social order or active participation in such actions"). Some were also convicted under other Articles.
Those still imprisoned are: Tarlan Agadadashov (5 years, 6 months, Prison No. 16), Rovshan Allahverdiyev (5 years, 6 months, Prison No. 16), Nasimi Hasanov (4 years, Prison No. 16), Ilham Hatamov (5 years, 6 months, Prison No. 14), David Karimov (6 years, Prison No. 16), Anar Gasimli (5 years, 6 months, Prison No. 14), Nahid Gahramanov (4 years, Kurdakhani Investigation Prison), Jeyhun Guliyev (5 years, Prison No. 14), Muraday Guluyev (5 years, Prison No. 17), Elshad Rzayev (6 years, Prison No. 16), Telman Shiraliyev (6 years, Prison No. 16), and Ramil Valiyev (6 years, 6 months, Prison No. 5).
In addition others who received prison terms were: Vahid Lalakishiyev (2 years), Elchin Mammadov (1 year, 9 months), Ramil Mehdiyev (2 years), Ruhid Abbasov (2 years), Khudaverdi Abdullayev (2 years), Arif Fataliyev (2 years), Bayramali Valishov (2 years) and Aydin Mammadov (2 years, 3 months). These were all freed in 2014, Eldar Zeynalov of the Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan told Forum 18 from Baku on 18 November.
The October 2012 anti-hijab ban protest outside the Education Ministry ended in violence. Independent observers insisted that the violence did not come from the protestors, but from provocateurs among the crowd possibly controlled by the police or other security agencies.
An August 2014 report on political prisoners, complied by a Working Group of human rights defenders led by Leyla Yunus and Rasul Jafarov concurs. (Both human rights defenders were themselves subsequently jailed as prisoners of conscience.) "Observation of the protest and analysis of photos and videos from the protest show that the action was peaceful and protesters refrained from confronting the police and employees of other law-enforcement agencies," it notes. "But after the use of force by police, some of the protesters attempted to defend themselves. The photos and videos clearly showed that provocateurs were used" (see http://www.nhc.no/en/list-of-political-prisoners-in-azerbaijan-published-today/).
Criminal cases handed to court
The criminal investigation against three Baku-based Muslims has been completed and the case has been handed to Baku's Yasamal District Court, their friends told Forum 18 from Baku on 18 November. The three remain under house arrest as they await trial.
The three men - Eldeniz Hajiyev, Ismayil Mammadov and Revan Sabzaliyev – were arrested for participating in a meeting to discuss their faith which was raided by armed police and National Security Ministry (NSM) secret police in April. They were transferred to house arrest on 12 September after up to five months in pre-trial detention at the NSM secret police investigation prison in Baku. Hajiyev and Mammadov had been held since April, Sabzaliyev since May (see F18News 22 September 2014 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1999).
Hajiyev, Mammadov and Sabzaliyev are facing trial under Criminal Code Article 168.2.
Article 168 punishes "Creation of a group carrying out activity under the pretext of spreading a religious faith and carrying out religious activity and by this illegally harming social order, or harming the health of citizens or violating the rights of citizens irrespective of the form of infringement, as well as distracting citizens from performance of duties established by law, as well as leadership of such a group or participation in it". Cases when minors are involved are prosecuted under Article 168.2, which carries a maximum punishment of three years' imprisonment (see Forum 18's Azerbaijan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1690).
Conscientious objector "unlawfully confined against his will"
Jehovah's Witness Kamran Shikhaliyev has been held for more than 13 months for refusing compulsory military service on grounds of religious conscience. Arrested in Baku in October 2013, he was sentenced to one year in a military disciplinary unit in April 2014. In July he lost his appeal against the conviction (see F18News 7 August 2014 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1983).
"The military has never put him in the disciplinary unit, so his sentence has yet to begin," Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18 on 18 November. "For more than a year, Kamran has been deprived of his liberty and is being unlawfully confined against his will. He has been subjected to physical abuse, verbal humiliation, and psychological pressure."
The 19-year-old Shikhaliyev is currently being held in Military Unit No. 704 in Astara in Lankaran Region of southern Azerbaijan. (END)
For more background information see Forum 18's Azerbaijan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1690.
More coverage of freedom of thought, conscience and belief in Azerbaijan is at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?query=&religion=all&country=23.
A compilation of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) freedom of religion or belief commitments can be found at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1351.
For a personal commentary, by an Azeri Protestant, on how the international community can help establish religious freedom in Azerbaijan, see http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=482.
A printer-friendly map of Azerbaijan is available at http://education.nationalgeographic.com/mapping/outline-map/?map=Azerbaijan.
All Forum 18 News Service material may be referred to, quoted from, or republished in full, if Forum 18 is credited as the source.

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Det ingår också ett annat fängelse i FCI Victorville Medium I och det är ett federalt kvinnofängelse med namnet Federal Prison Camp Victorville (FPC Victorville).

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Fängelset förvarar manliga intagna som är klassificerade för säkerhetsnivån "medel". Den förvarade 1 580 intagna för november 2022.

FCI Victorville Medium I invigdes i juni 2000.

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The general media commentary around Davos could be summed up as "gloomy and depressing", but that doesn't seem to be true for fintech.
Granted, there may be some selection bias there, since fintech participants tend towards optimistic-leaning futurists and technologists, but the mood this year was described as "down to business", said David Shrier, CEO of Distilled Identity, an AI biometrics software company with financial services and government clients.
"The absence of some politicians and political delegations, and with less fluff around what was going on, it was a little less trendy and people were more productive. This is my fifth year going, and it was the most productive Davos yet," he said.
Shrier participated in a panel discussion on global prediction trends with the financial industry represented by WorldQuant's Igor Tulchinsky.


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THE BEST OF THE CALL: MILLENIUM EDITION
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Artist The Call
Record Label Hip-O Records
Bono contributes backing vocals to the song "What's Happened to You?"
Let the Day Begin
Walls Came Down
War Weary World
Modern Romans
Scene Beyond Dreams
Everywhere I Go
I Don't Wanna
You Run
What's Happened to You (4:18)
I Still Believe (Great Design) (Live)
Scott Musick: Drums, percussion and vocals. Jim Goodwin: Keyboards, saxophones, vocals. Tom Ferrier: Guitar and vocals. Michael Been: Bass, guitar, keyboards, and lead vocals. Bono: Background Vocal on "What's Happened to You?". Produced by Micheal Been and the Call. Co-Produced by Jim Scott. Engineered and Mixed by Jim Scott.
At the turn of the millenium a series of low priced CDs called "20th Century Masters" appeared on the market claiming to be the "Best Of" for many artists, all featuring similar artwork, and in most cases having little to do with the initial artist itself. The Call was one of the artists featured in this series. And the song which Bono recorded with the Call, 1990s What's Happened to You appears on this compilation CD.
"What's Happened to You" was originally released on The Call's Red Moon album.
"What's Happened to You" was also found on The Call's Best Of album and on The Best of The Call: The Millenium Collection.
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Label: Hip-O Records
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has committed $300 million to the Allen Institute for Brain Science, doubling its staff of scientists, to map the brain's basic circuitry of perception.
Microsoft co-founder and science enthusiast Paul Allen will donate $300 million to the Allen Institute for Brain Science, doubling its staff of scientists and technicians, to study the brain's basic circuitry of perception. "The aim is to systematically explore the roots of vision and decision-making by analyzing the billions of cells and synapses in the brain's cerebral cortex, which plays a critical role in vision, memory and awareness." To do so, the laboratory will create a series of 'brain observatories', computational tools that will map neural behavior.
By scaling resources, the Allen Institute is able to accomplish feats that most laboratories cannot, the majority being staffed with graduate students concentrated on writing papers for academic journals. "Our dream is to uncover the essence of what makes us human," Mr. Allen said. "There is really no greater challenge with a potentially more huge impact than understanding how brains work." It's flagship project to date is a $55 million atlas of the structure of the human brain, compiling biochemistry and genetics, along with tools to analyze the data.


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Q: Unix time stamp conversion using pandas issue I have a pandas dataframe, df which looks like this:
       _sent_time_stamp  distance  duration  duration_in_traffic   Orig_lat
0            1456732800      1670       208                  343  51.441092

I want to convert the epoch time value (_sent_time_stamp) into two columns, one with the date and one with the hour.
I define two functions:
def date_convert(time):
    return time.date()

def hour_convert(time):
    return time.hour()

I then use lambda calculus to apply these functions and create 2 new columns.
df['date'] = Goo_results.apply(lambda row: date_convert(pd.to_datetime(row['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')), axis=1)

df['hour'] = Goo_results.apply(lambda row: hour_convert(pd.to_datetime(row['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')), axis=1)

The date column works but the hour doesn't. I can't see why!
TypeError: ("'int' object is not callable", u'occurred at index 0')

A: You can remove () next hour:
def date_convert(time):
    return time.date()

def hour_convert(time):
    return time.hour #remove ()

df['date'] = df.apply(lambda row: date_convert(pd.to_datetime(row['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')), axis=1)
df['hour'] = df.apply(lambda row: hour_convert(pd.to_datetime(row['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')), axis=1)
print df
   _sent_time_stamp  distance  duration  duration_in_traffic   Orig_lat  \
0        1456732800      1670       208                  343  51.441092

         date  hour
0  2016-02-29     8

But better and faster is use dt.date and dt.hour:
dat = pd.to_datetime(df['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')
df['date'] = dat.dt.date
df['hour'] = dat.dt.hour
print df
   _sent_time_stamp  distance  duration  duration_in_traffic   Orig_lat  \
0        1456732800      1670       208                  343  51.441092

         date  hour
0  2016-02-29     8

Timings:
In [20]: %timeit new(df1)
1000 loops, best of 3: 827 µs per loop

In [21]: %timeit lamb(df)
The slowest run took 4.40 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.13 ms per loop

Code:
df1 = df.copy()

def date_convert(time):
    return time.date()

def hour_convert(time):
    return time.hour

def lamb(df):
    df['date'] = df.apply(lambda row: date_convert(pd.to_datetime(row['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')), axis=1)
    df['hour'] = df.apply(lambda row: hour_convert(pd.to_datetime(row['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')), axis=1)
    return df

def new(df):
    dat = pd.to_datetime(df['_sent_time_stamp'], unit='s')
    df['date'] = dat.dt.date
    df['hour'] = dat.dt.hour
    return df

print lamb(df)
print new(df1)

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Best known for this sound-based installations, the artist and designer Yuri Suzuki has just been appointed as a partner at the branding powerhouse Pentagram, bringing his specific brand of esoteric, off-beat experience design to an environment better known for high-profile campaigns for globally renowned clients. So what led Suzuki to join Pentagram; what prompted Pentagram to look into the emerging field of sound design; and what to both parties hope to achieve through the union?
Congratulations on your appointment as partner at Pentagram. What is it like taking up the role?
I'm not sure I'm allowed to say this, but [Pentagram] is a little bit like the Freemasons. It's quite bizarre as a company because it has 23 partners and everyone runs the business equally, with the same amount of responsibility. There's no hierarchy, there's no boss, and everyone has to agree on any changes that are happening in the company. It was a two year process to become a partner, and during that time I met all the other partners and talked to them about my practice.
To be honest I'm really surprised [to have been appointed], because for them it's very risky to have a partner like me. I'm quite an abstract designer – I'm doing far-fetched things. But somehow it's an incubation as well. [Pentagram take] three to five years to look at a new partner and grow them to a certain level. They're bringing in my skills and they are also helping me.
Do you have a sense of why the other partners wanted to bring you in? As you say, your practice is unusual.
Pentagram is a traditional company in some ways, but its way of thinking is quite advanced. Of any designer in the world, I would probably have been one of the most risky choices for Pentagram, but I think the partners wanted to extend into a new field of design. Many companies now want to offer public experience or public engagement, and you can see that a lot of communication now happens through audio. Many areas of design demand audio – for example, in relation to electric cars people are now thinking about how they could design the sound of that car from scratch, because an electric car doesn't produce any sound naturally. I believe that Pentagram is investing in me to help it find out what it should do next.
Is technology steering things back towards a more aural culture?
I recently had a nice conversation with [Shuntaro Tanikawa], one of Japan's most famous poets. He's about 88 but he's actively giving poetry readings at bookshops. I asked him why he does that, and he said that the human brain translates things in a phonetic way, so communicating through audio offers a much more direct route to the brain. A client might email you, for example, but it's actually much more direct to call and make sure you understand what they want. What I want to do in my practice is elementary – what do human beings want as a sound? My work with sound is nothing about aesthetics or decoration. We fundamentally have to think about what kind of sounds we need in our lives.
Your work is quite experimental, whereas Pentagram has a strong commercial impetus. What appealed to you about the company?
In a way, I felt like I'd been out of the [mainstream] design industry for a long time because I was producing my own installations and functioning in this bizarre position between art and design. I felt like I had to change that somehow. I have a passion to create my own art projects anyway, so I somehow wanted to separate out my art projects and my design projects, and start to feed back to the industry. I think design itself is at a strange point in its existence, because so many people are crossing between it and art. Operating in the middle of that can be quite difficult and many people are struggling. Also, there's a limit to what I can achieve [on my own]. I felt this could be a good opportunity to step into a different world.
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Gair Maxwell: are you drawing some conclusions too quickly?
Sometimes, that's all it takes and before you know it there is no going back.
It was true 150 years ago. It's even more true today.
In a day and age where being adaptable, nimble and flexible matters like never before, have you stopped to notice how many organizations and their people are still drawing metaphorical "lines in the sand"; refusing to plan for the future while clinging to the past?
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Critically important note about PICS and NICS
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KCJones
Hampden Township, Pennsylvania
(Cumberland County)
Re: Critically important note about PICS and NICS
Originally Posted by GunLawyer001
...Making mistakes on the 4473 is a victimless crime. Our govt should concentrate on preventing actual victims, not on herding the sheep along arbitrary pathways.
Seems to me that much like credit bureaus, there should be an option to do a 'soft' pull on PICS and/or NICS. A 'would I qualify if I tried?' type inquiry that returns a "yes" or the reason why not, without the implication of getting busted for 'lying' on a 4473... Heck, I'd even settle for a simple "yes" or "no" and then you have to go find out why if no.
You'd still have to ink the form to buy a gun, with full penalties for lying (and at that point, more likely ill-intent/deserved).
It would sure make life easier for FFL's, customers, etc. and avoid the unfortunate situation of folks 'trying it' to find out (as we see here all too often).
It seems to me there's some level of 'right to know' by the individual too, without risking a criminal offense to find out. I know you can request your 'record' from PSP, but even getting that and seeing an offense doesn't help the average Joe know if many of the most common offenses are disqualifying (as we're asked here all too often).
It's something folks might even want to check with no intention to buy a gun, just for identity protection. True story: there is someone who lives in the area with my exact (rather unusual) name & spelling. Probably some distant cousin, but I don't know. Might even be a woman who married into the family (the name is pretty gender-neutral, like Sam or Chris). Having said that, I've TWICE been called into the local district magistrate's office to account for my unpaid tickets, and had to point out that it's a different middle initial and SSN they're looking for. It's conceivable one day I could get turned down for PICS based on something they do erroneously entered for me... I'd sooner know that BEFORE I get turned down and PSP comes calling...
Not to mention letting LEOs get on with pursuing the real baddies versus folks who are asked to fill out a form with possible criminal implications and no real understanding of what's being asked.
Downsides???
Only one I can really think of is alluded to above: It would be easier for folks who -are- trying to skirt the law to determine that something's been "missed" and they can slide under the wire. Seems a bit of an outlier to me.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Ben Franklin.
February 6th, 2018, 12:02 PM #72
GunLawyer001
Bucks, Pennsylvania
Originally Posted by KCJones
I basically agree with you. The real bad guys who we want to keep separate from weapons, already know that they spent 3 years in prison or were caught dealing drugs or were kicked out of the army for rape. I don't know how big a problem it really is that felons and maniacs would pass PICS because of system errors, but I'd bet money that it's a tiny problem compared to people who were convicted of crimes and spent zero days in jail, but the statute allowed for 5 years; or people whose parents had them examined as teens and are literally unaware that they were 302'ed.
The only thing that makes sense is that PICS (and NICS) is designed as a trap for the unwary. It's difficult for the layman to know where his criminal records can be found, it's impossible to find 15 year old medical records that have been shredded. Our situation is this: Let's say in 1990 Barry O. is committed to a hospital as a result of a bad drug experience. The hospital sends a 302 form to the PSP. That creates a permanent disability for Barry. But Barry is not represented by counsel, he isn't given any paperwork (or he loses it during the ordeal). The PSP now knows that Barry is prohibited, but Barry does not.
Time passes. By 1997 or 2000, the hospital shreds Barry's records, per their retention policy. The PSP still has their form.
In 2018, Barry goes to buy a gun. He doesn't remember being adjudicated mentally ill, because nobody told him that. He didn't have any Cuckoo's Nest experience, no straight jacket, no mute Indians, he just spent a weekend in a hospital 28 years ago while doctors told him reassuring things, and then he went home.
Let's say he wanted to be proactive; he calls the PSP but they can't legally tell him anything. He calls the hospital and they check their system and there's no reference to him there at all.
The first direct evidence he has that he was committed is when the PSP (or local cops) call him to tell him why he was denied by PICS, and they're deciding whether to prosecute him.
Barry should have hired someone like me BEFORE he filled out the form. He sure as hell needs someone like me now, because the reason the LEO is calling him is to trick him into further implicating himself to make a conviction easier. The govt takes the position that every person knows in detail whether they were committed (vs "mom put me in the hospital once when she didn't know what to do", which I've heard many times), and that every person knows the details of the statute under which they were convicted.
Bear in mind, defense lawyers and prosecutors and judges have frequently (and erroneously) told defendants that their gun rights would not be impacted by a guilty plea. I don't recall ANY hospital telling an incoming patient that they would be losing their gun rights, EVER. But you can and will be criminally prosecuted if YOU get it wrong.
It's not right. It's not justice.
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..... I don't recall ANY hospital telling an incoming patient that they would be losing their gun rights, EVER. But you can and will be criminally prosecuted if YOU get it wrong.
As usual, you make many great points. Regarding the above sentence, every 302 I have dealt with, the main concern at the moment was the crisis that the person was experiencing. The hospital and the family were usually concerned that the person wouldn't harm themselves and would be treated and live on. Future gun rights were not a priority at the moment.
Without successfull treatment at present, there would be no future justice or future anything.
Originally Posted by Carson
I agree, and I don't necessarily condemn the 1st responders or the hospital; I'm just saying the patient is given no basis for understanding that he has to change his answer on one question on one form sometime in the future, when he knows he's not one of those "felons and the mentally ill" that our elected officials keep telling everyone the background check is stopping.
m16ark56
Banning Southwest PA, Pennsylvania
(Fayette County)
When the people fear the Government, there is Tyrrany. When the Government FEARS the people, there is Liberty!
June 23rd, 2019, 09:51 PM #76
Glen Mills, Pennsylvania
We're seeing an increasing number of criminal prosecutions for PICS denials in Pennsylvania, where the State Police are referring close to 100% of all denials for follow-up prosecution.
If I'm reading this right, the Supreme Court is saying that prosecutors must prove people charged with federal gun laws knew that they were not allowed to have the gun.
Could this transfer over to people who try to buy a gun, mistakenly fill out the space on the NICS/PICS form saying that they are not prohibited because of a 302 or such and are then denied/prosecuted? Basically will prosecutors now have to prove the person knew they were filling out the form wrong?
https://fox61.com/2019/06/23/justice...ldnt-have-gun/
Justices: Proof needed that person knew he couldn't have gun
Posted 12:19 PM, June 23, 2019, by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says prosecutors must prove that people charged with violating federal gun laws knew they were not allowed to have a weapon. The government says the decision could affect thousands of prosecutions of convicted criminals who are barred from having a firearm.
The court ruled 7-2 Friday in the case of a foreign student from the United Arab Emirates who took target practice at a Florida shooting range, even though he had been dismissed from the Florida Institute of Technology and was in the United States illegally. He was prosecuted under a law that bars people who are in the country illegally from having guns.
Prosecutors never proved that the student, Hamid Rehaif, knew he couldn't have a gun, and lower courts ruled they didn't have to.
The same law is also an important tool to keep guns away from convicted criminals. There were more than 6,000 convictions under the law during the government's 2017 fiscal year, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in his majority opinion that the law at issue requires prosecutors to show both that the person had a gun and knew he shouldn't.
Otherwise, Breyer said, the law could ensnare someone "brought into the United States unlawfully as a small child and was therefore unaware of his unlawful status."
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a dissent that was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas that the decision "opens the gates to a flood of litigation that is sure to burden the lower courts."
The gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety had joined the Trump administration in urging the court to reject Rehaif's arguments.
"We are concerned today's ruling will make it harder for law enforcement to impose accountability when people keep or acquire guns they're legally barred from possessing, including due to felony and domestic violence convictions," said Eric Tirschwell, Everytown's litigation director.
Rehaif was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Friday's decision may not be the last word in his case. Lower courts will take a new look at its details, including the school's telling him his student visa would no longer be valid unless he transferred to another school. Prosecutors say Rehaif ignored the warning and instead spent months at a hotel in Melbourne, Florida, never re-enrolling in school.
Last edited by internet troll; June 23rd, 2019 at 10:07 PM.
Proof Armed citizens make a difference. http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=316012
Originally Posted by internet troll
I thought about that as well. But the 4473 doesn't ask if you're prohibited, it asks a series of factual and legal questions, and if you get one wrong then they prosecute you for willfully lying. If you are mistaken about the maximum sentence under the statute at the time, they get you for "lying". They have to prove that you probably knew the truth, but chose to lie. In practice, the DA assumes that your error as to the legal conclusion equates to a factual misrepresentation.
If you were booted out of the Army with a dishonorable discharge, you probably know that. If you were dragged through the kaleidoscope of the legal system and walked out with no jail time and a small fine and some probation, there's a solid chance that you were unaware of the theoretical max sentence; that's not really a fact question, that's a legal conclusion, and figuring out the max sentence for a DUI requires reviewing the specifics of each case, reviewing the multiple interlocking paragraphs of the statute in the Vehicle Code, then jumping over to the Crimes Code to figure out what an M1 and M2 and M3 mean. Easy enough for a lawyer, not so easy for a plumber.
I have a spread sheet to factor in whether it's a 1st or 2nd or 3rd offense, what the blood alcohol level was, who was injured, whether a school bus was involved, etc. It also helps to understand when a prior non-conviction counts as a prior "offense", because it's perfectly possible for your first conviction to be a 3rd offense, which radically changes the max penalty.
Our drug statute is almost impenetrable.
Prosecution for lying on a form is distinguishable from the situation where someone gets a gun in his hand, and breaks the law by his act.
There are parallels, but the mechanics are very different.
Still, it's an interesting acknowledgement that it's unfair to presumptively assume that every person is fully aware of every provision of the Federal and state criminal codes, given that NOBODY is fully aware of every provision of every law to which they are subject. You can't be. There's just too much law, too many words, it changes every day, and the applicable court decisions and agency rulings that substantively alter the law multiply that enormous volume at least 10 times.
You could memorize the Federal gun statutes and still be unaware that a front grip on a pistol makes it an NFA firearm, or what counts as a machinegun these days. I can confidently say that no lawyer, no judge, no idiot savant knows it all. It's about time that a court noticed reality.
Thanks for the input.
June 24th, 2019, 01:52 AM #79
PAMedic=F|A=
Oakland Mills, Pennsylvania
(Juniata County)
I've seen very expensive IVY league schools try and 302 kids who, as far as I could tell had no evidence of being a danger to themselves or others, just stressed from finials or whatever. Much to the distress of the school staff, I've in front of them & the cops, told those kids as much, and explained to the best of my limited knowledge what a 302 would do to their lives. I've made it clear they're going to the hospital willingly or not, that they're screwed, and the absolutely best thing they can do is say "I'm going willingly and want help" regardless of the truth of their status or if they need it.
One of the greatest joys I've ever seen involved a 302 of a person who was most likely suicidal. Same school started the process, but the mental heath worker wouldn't come to the hospital. ER physician refused to sign the 302, as he had no personal evidence of PT being suicidal. PT had denied it to me, the nurses & himself. He explained this to the mental health worker and said I quote: "There is no due process, and I will not be judge, jury and executioner & ruin this girls life. You need to come do your job."
PT had reported it to a friend, who had accompanied us, but when the mental health worker suggested the friend fill out the 302 he started screaming at the lady on the phone, and told her she had half an hour to be in his ER or he was going to meet with the dean of the college and report her to the State Ethics board, and that he would not put her friend in that position.
IT was amazing. Sadly there are few physicians with his character.
"Cives Arma Ferant"
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RockIsland
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
(Bucks County)
If I'm reading this right, the Supreme Court is saying that prosecutors must prove people charged with federal gun laws knew that they were not allowed to have the gun....
I wonder if the ruling would have been different if the defendant wasn't an undocumented dreamer?
Dissaponting that two of the most conservative justices were the dissenting opinion.
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