Anonymous ID: 6b1dc6 May 11, 2021, 9:34 p.m. No.13641523   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1536 >>1628 >>1669 >>1770 >>1906 >>1970 >>2006 >>2056

https://nypost.com/2021/05/11/ghislaine-maxwells-sex-crimes-trial-set-for-november/

Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex crimes trial set for November

Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial is set for November, as the former socialite faces charges she recruited teenage girls for her pal Jeffrey Epstein.

US District Judge Alison Nathan said in Manhattan on Tuesday that she’d aim to start the trial on Nov. 29, just after Thanksgiving.

The date is subject to courtroom availability and COVID-19 protocols.

The trial was originally slated for July, but Nathan agreed this month to postpone its start after prosecutors hit the 59-year-old Maxwell with two new sex-trafficking charges.

The disgraced British socialite is facing up to 80 years behind bars if she’s found guilty on eight counts. She’s maintained her innocence as she sits in a Brooklyn jail waiting for her day in court.

Maxwell’s attorneys had wanted the judge to agree to kick off the trial three weeks earlier than Nov. 29.

Anonymous ID: 6b1dc6 May 11, 2021, 9:36 p.m. No.13641536   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1628 >>1669 >>1770 >>1906 >>1970 >>2006 >>2056

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>https://nypost.com/2021/05/11/ghislaine-maxwells-sex-crimes-trial-set-for-november/

Lawyer Bobbi Sternheim wrote in a court letter that a date so close to Thanksgiving could disrupt jurors’ travel plans and cast the defense “in a negative light as jurors impatiently wait for the trial to conclude before Christmas, which it won’t.”

The date would also keep Maxwell in jail longer, Sternheim argued.

But Nathan rejected that request and said Nov. 29 would let the four prosecutors on the case continue without scheduling disruptions.

Maxwell is accused of procuring and grooming at least four girls for Epstein between 1994 and 2004. Epstein, Maxwell’s one-time boyfriend, killed himself in August 2019, while in jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Since Maxwell’s arrest, she and her lawyers have complained about the conditions of her incarceration. They say she was subjected to strip searches, awakened every 15 minutes by flashlight and given nearly nothing to eat.

Anonymous ID: 6b1dc6 May 11, 2021, 9:40 p.m. No.13641577   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1580 >>1669 >>1770 >>1906 >>1970 >>2006 >>2056

https://npasyria.com/en/59265/

Syria seeks to pressure Turkey over Euphrates water

On Tuesday, Minister of Water Resources in the Syrian government Tamam Raad talked about efforts through communicating “with friendly countries and international organizations to pressure the Turkish regime to back down from its measures” regarding water.

For more than three months, Turkey has been holding water in six dams, the largest of which is the Ataturk Dam, the second largest dam in the Middle East, with a storage capacity of 48 billion cubic meters, in violation of the international agreement.

According to the 1987 agreement signed between Damascus and Ankara regarding the Euphrates River, Syria’s share of water coming from Turkey is no less than 500 cubic meters per second on average, equivalent to 2,500 barrels.

The Euphrates River water is now limited to less than 200 cubic meters per second, according to the General Administration of Dams in Northeast Syria.

The Syrian minister discussed with his Iraqi counterpart Mahdi Rashid al-Hamdani developments related to Turkey’s seizure of the Euphrates water, which has led to the deprivation of the downstream countries of Syria and Iraq from the water of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, according to what was reported by Syrian state-controlled news agency SANA.

According to SANA, the meeting took place through video technology, and the two ministers stressed “joint efforts to pressure the Turkish regime to stop its measures on the two rivers.”

Earlier on Tuesday, the sheikhs and notables of the Syrian Raqqa tribes said that the residents of northeast Syria are on the verge of disaster that will affect all aspects of life due to the Euphrates River.

Anonymous ID: 6b1dc6 May 11, 2021, 9:41 p.m. No.13641580   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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For months, Turkey has violated its agreement with Syria over shares of the Euphrates' water, causing shortages of food, water, and electricity among the farmers, fishermen, and other residents of the river's banks.