Governor of Japan’s Okinawa to press U.S. for removal of base
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa said on Wednesday he will travel to the United States next week to press his demand that a U.S.
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California ‘revenge porn’ trial gets under way in San Diego
By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The trial of a California man accused of running a so-called “revenge porn” website, featuring nude pictures of women often posted by jilted ex-lovers, began in San Diego on Friday in a test of state efforts to clamp down on such sites. Kevin Boellart, 28, was arrested in 2013 shortly after Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-in-the-nation law to target “revenge porn,” defined as the posting of private, explicit photos of others on the Internet to humiliate them. Prosecutors have said Boellart’s site, which is no longer operational, had featured over 10,000 sexually explicit photos, and that he charged women up to $350 each to remove them
Read moreCalifornia ‘revenge porn’ trial gets under way in San Diego
By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The trial of a California man accused of running a so-called “revenge porn” website, featuring nude pictures of women often posted by jilted ex-lovers, began in San Diego on Friday in a test of state efforts to clamp down on such sites.
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