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Creator of porn site sentenced to life in prison
By TIMES WIRES
Published November 23, 2006
The creator of China's largest pornographic Web site was ordered imprisoned for life Wednesday, state media reported. Xinhua News Agency said judges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in Shanxi province gave the life sentence to Chen Hui and handed down terms of 13 months to 10 years to eight others after they were convicted of profiting from pornographic dissemination. Chen, 28, and his accomplices started the Web site in 2004 and opened three other porn sites, attracting more than 600,000 users. Police found about $25,000 in the bank accounts of the nine. 90 accused of ties to organized crime Police arrested about 90 alleged organized crime figures early Wednesday. More than 700 police officers in Montreal conducted the early morning raids to round up the suspects, and more than 1,300 charges were expected to be brought, including attempted murder, drug dealing, extortion, bookmaking and possession of restricted weapons, police said. Among those arrested was 82-year-old Nicolo Rizzuto. His son, Vito Rizzuto, was deported to the United States this year to face charges related to the murder of three members of the reputed Bonanno crime family in New York. Extremist views gain in elections Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's right-of-center Christian Democratic Appeal party, which has led efforts to curtail Muslim immigration at a time of growing xenophobia in the Netherlands, won the most seats in parliamentary elections Wednesday. As expected, no party won enough seats for a majority in the lower house of Parliament. The erratic voting patterns shifted significant numbers of seats to parties with extremist views and robbed moderate parties of influence - a result that stunned government officials and political analysts. Elsewhere SOUTH KOREA: Tens of thousands of South Korean workers held rallies and labor strikes Wednesday to oppose a free trade agreement with the United States and demand better working conditions. POLAND: Combustible gases forced rescuers to suspend their search Wednesday for 15 coal miners missing more than a half-mile underground in a mine in Ruda Slaska, and officials said conditions were worsening for any workers still alive after a deadly subterranean methane explosion Tuesday.
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