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TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS
Court sentences top pianist accused of tweets that insulted Islam
Stars of The Avengers accepted the award for MTV movie of the year.
The Avengers wins three MTV movie awards BOX office hit The Avengers beat the competition at this year’s MTV movie awards, winning three out of a possible four prizes. The comic book action film won movie of the year and best villain for British actor Tom Hiddleston. Oscar-winner Silver Linings Playbook took three awards including best male and female for lead actors Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Australian comic actress Rebel Wilson hosted the ceremony in Los Angeles. “What’s the opposite of humbled? We’re Biebered to be standing here,’’ said Avengers writer-director Joss Whedon as
he accepted the award for movie of the year. The Marvel film - released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - also beat Django Unchained, Skyfall, Ted and The Dark Knight Rises to win the best fight accolade. Wilson, who opened and closed the show wearing Iron Manstyle armour, won breakthrough performance and shared best musical moment for her role in college musical Pitch Perfect. The event saw Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning artist Jamie Foxx receive the MTV Generation Award, the show’s version of a lifetime achievement trophy.
AN Istanbul court slapped a worldrenowned musician Monday with a 10-month suspended sentence for posting a series of tweets that poked fun at Islamic descriptions of heaven. Classical concert pianist Fazil Say, 43, was found guilty of “openly insulting the religious values held by a portion of the public” for the tweets, which were posted last year. “Although I am innocent and have not committed any crime, this decision I received is more worrisome for the freedom of expression and belief in Turkey than it is to me as a person,” Say wrote in a statement posted on his Facebook page. The sentence marks a “very sad day for freedom of expression in Turkey,” Say’s lawyer Meltem Akyol told CNN. “We were expecting an acquittal.” “Freedom of expression does not entitle you to condescend or offend or insult people,” countered plaintiff Ali Emre Bukagili. “That’s a crime.” Say’s tweets included: “You say the rivers will flow with wine, is heaven a tavern? You say each believer will receive two women, is heaven a brothel?” according to the indictment. In another, Say joked about the short duration of a cleric’s traditional Islamic call to prayer. The tweet
Fazil Say was found guilty of “openly insulting the religious values held by a portion of the public” for the tweets, which were posted last year.
asked a rhetorical question to the chanting cleric: “What’s the hurry? Lover waiting?” the indictment said. Say also was convicted of retweeting allegedly offensive posts, such as, “I am not sure if you have realized it, but where there is scum, a lowlife, a thief or a fool, s/he is always an Allahist. Is this a paradox?” Faruk Logoglu, deputy international affairs chairman of the nation’s main opposition party, CHP, called the sentence a “new link in the long chain of assaults on the
freedom of expression and freedom of conscience in Turkey.” “This is shameful for Turkish democracy,” he said. Say won’t have to serve his sentence as long as he doesn’t commit a similar crime within the next five years. “The decision is a correct one,” said Bukagili. “In our laws, it is against the law to publicly insult a belief, and he did that.” The case was filed last June after three plaintiffs lodged formal complaints.
Coolio charged with battery after arrest for alleged violent assault on mother of his son
Bradley Cooper and his mother Gloria Cooper have been living with his mother since his father died in January of 2011.
Bradley Cooper reveals he lives with his mom BRADLEY Cooper opened up to the May issue of Details magazine on one of the most important leading ladies in his life — his mother. The handsome “Hangover 3” star revealed that he has been living with his mom, Gloria, since his father Charles, passed away after a long battle with cancer in January 2011. “Let’s face it: It’s probably not easy for her, by the way, to be living with her son. It’s life. And right now, two years after my father’s death, this is where we are,” he said on his living situation. “My family is very close, and my dad dying was brutal for all of us. It was a schism, and its aftershock has not stopped. And we need each
other. So here we are but don’t get me wrong. It’s not without complications. It’s not like I live in a compound and she’s in the guesthouse. No. She’s in the next room. But here’s the thing: She’s a cool chick. We can hang, and she can roll with the punches. If that wasn’t the case, there’s no way.” Cooper told the mag that his father’s death had a big impact on how he now lives his everyday life. “I was like, ‘Okay. This is death. And this is going to happen to me one day.’ There was a huge freedom that came with that. I just don’t sweat the sh-t. The small stuff. My mind is just less busy now,” he said.
COOLIO got in a heated and bloody brawl with the mother of his young son and now is facing a misdemeanor battery charge, Las Vegas prosecutors confirmed Tuesday. The rap legend allegedly pushed Anabella Chapman to the ground and punched her in the face with a closed fist April 1 during a fight over another girlfriend he brought to their residence, a police report obtained by the Daily News states. Coolio, whose real name is Artis Ivey, busted Chapman’s right lip and then tried to flee the residence with the couple’s toddler son and the other woman, Chapman told police. The victim, 33, said she fell and was sideswiped by Ivey’s truck when she grabbed onto the driver’s side window, yelling at the “Gangsta’s Paradise” singer to return their son, the police report says. Ivey reportedly came back, picked Chapman up and dropped her at a nearby urgent care facility. She was “covered in blood” with a split lip, a bleeding middle right finger and a visible tire mark on her right calf, cops said. Chapman said she was ordered to say she fell on her own, medical staff told police. Ivey denied hitting Chapman when cops tracked him down an hour and a half later.
Coolio allegedly pushed his child mother to the ground and punched her in the face.