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A detained Saudi womens rights activist had electrodes fixed to her head during phone calls with her family to prevent her speaking of the torture she suffered in prison, her sister said on Thursday after her release. Loujain al-Hathoul was released to her familys home in Riyadh on Wednesday after 1,001 days in prison on charges related to her activism. Under her probation she is unable to travel, use social media or speak to the media. Her sisters, who live abroad, announced Thursday that Ms al-Hathoul will seek legal redress in Saudi Arabia for torture she said she suffered in detention. She was tortured and she cannot forget this, her sister Lina said, during an online press conference. The family have previously claimed Ms al-Hathoul was tortured which Saudi authorities deny but gave new details Thursday, including that the threat of electrocution stopped her speaking out. If I complained about anything they were ready to electrocute me, Lina said her sister told the family on Wednesday of her early months in detention. It was months later that we found out about the torture when Ms al-Hathoul was moved to another prison, Lina said. Ms al-Hathoul has identified one of her torturers as Saud Al Qahtani, a top adviser to the Saudi crown prince until he was sanctioned by the US over his role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Hes the only person that we know the name of who was present at the torture sessions, Lina said. Mr Qahtani is notorious in Saudi Arabia, sometimes called the lord of the flies for his army of Twitter trolls used for attacking dissidents. Loujain recognised him, hes a public figure, said her older sister Alia. Ms al-Hathoul now hopes to use the Saudi justice system to prove she was tortured and seek justice. The torturers must be sentenced, Lina said. In December, Ms al-Hathoul was sentenced to nearly six years imprisonment over her activism, which included demanding the right for women to drive and calling for the abolition of Saudi Arabias male guardianship system. The decades old driving ban was lifted weeks after her arrest, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman eager to claim the credit for the reform. The 35-year-old prince muscled his way to become next in line to the throne in 2015, partly by projecting an image as a dynamic young reformer who could modernise the conservative kingdom. But the sisters believe that any reforms under Mohammed bin Salman are illusory. MBS is far from being a reformer, hes an oppressor, said Lina, referring to him by his initials. Womens empowerment is a lie in Saudi Arabia, there are no real reforms, she said. Lina said she was choosing her words carefully to avoid further negative repercussions for her family still in Saudi Arabia: Theres really an atmosphere of fear under MBS. The family believe Ms al-Hathouls early release was timed by the Saudi government to impress new US President Joe Biden, who has promised closer scrutiny of his close allys human rights record. Saudi Arabias situation is tightly connected with whats going on in the US, Alia said. The Biden administration made clear that they care about human rights.

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Interesting, right? After all, there's no question that there's a decent-sized chunk of people who have voted for and supported Republicans in the past but were alienated by Trump's behavior in office.

As is often the case with talk of possible new political parties, however, there's less than meets the eye. Here's why:

1. The Republican Party already fought this fight in 2016. The anti-Trump crowd, which ultimately became every candidate in the GOP primary field other than Trump, lost. And lost badly. Just ask Marco Rubio. And Jeb Bush. And Lindsey Graham. And Rand Paul. And Ted Cruz. And Chris Christie. And Ben Carson.

2. There's no leader for this movement. Voters rally around candidates, not political parties. Barack Obama appealed to people, first and foremost, because he was Barack Obama. Not because he was a Democrat. Same for Trump, who, prior to running in 2016, was at best loosely affiliated with the Republican Party. Who is the face of this proposed new party or new faction? Ben Sasse? John Kasich? Liz Cheney? Larry Hogan? Adam Kinzinger? Mitt Romney? Lisa Murkowski? You get the idea. Way too many cooks.

The Point: The idea of a non-Trump Republican Party undoubtedly appeals to plenty of GOP establishment types. The problem? There just aren't enough of them in the party for such a move to succeed.

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A Lee County sheriffs detective is questioning aprosecutorsdecisionnotto charge James Taylor withthe homicide of a man who drunkenly attempted to get into his home in 2016.

Ryan Modell, 32,was drunk and mistakenly tried to enter Taylors condominiumat the Emerson Square development on Old Harmony Drivein south Fort Myerson March 20, 2016.

A year later,prosecutors withthe 20thJudicial Circuit declined to file charges against Taylor, then 45,calling Modells death a justifiable homicide under FloridasStand Your Ground lawbecause Taylor said he feared for his life.

Since then, Modells dad Sandy has filed a wrongfuldeath suitagainst Taylor and Taylor has countersuedModellfor defamation. Both cases were settled.

SandyModell, Ryans father, has fought to get the case reopened without success.

But, in aswornvideorecorded statement,Lt. DavidLebid, a17-year law enforcement officer assigned to the case,paints a different pictureof Taylor and the shooting of ModelltoR. Frank Myers,an attorney hired by Sandy.Lebidcalls into question Taylors claim that he was acting in self-defense.

I personally felt that what Mr. Taylor did was completely wrong and that it was a homicide,Lebidsaid. I believe he murdered this person.

Taylors attorney, Matthew S. Toll, said the case was reviewed and re-reviewed at least twice since then withthe result to not prosecute each time.

Enough already, Toll said. It is time to allow an innocent man who was defending himself and his wife from a violent attack in the middle of the night to move forward in peace.

The State Attorneys Office and the Lee County Sheriffs Officedeclined to comment for this story.The sheriffs officealsodeclined to makeLebid available for an interview. However,Myers, the attorney, said the sheriffs office gaveLebid permission to participatein the sworn interview.

The night of the incident,Taylor and his wife were awakened by a noise and went to check it out, Lebidtold attorneys.They went to thefront door wheretheyfound Modell trying to get into their home,prompting a phone call fromhis wifeto 911where she described Modell as confused.

At some point, the door was opened and Modell tried to get inside,Lebidsaid. It took some force, but eventually, the door was closed on Modell, injuring his foot in the process.

There was actual blood in the threshold of the doorway proving that Ryan was somewhere he didnt belong,Lebidsaid. And then Ryan left.

Thats where the facts of what happened that night get murky.When deputies arrived the night of the shooting, Taylor declined to provide a statementandaskedfor an attorney, Lebid said.

I dont understand why, because the goal was I dont want you in my house, you have the wrong house, and I thought, in my estimation, well, that was accomplished,Lebidsaid.

What makes the most sense,Lebidsaid, is Taylor closed the door on Modell, went to his bedroom to get his Glock 10mm, and came back and shot Modell.Taylor left his wife behind, told her to lock the door, and then went looking for Modell, which is not indicative of someone who is afraid,Lebidsaid.

When Taylor found Modell, he was about 100 feet away from his home,sitting on his butt washing his foot off with a water hose,Lebidsaid, adding that, at that point,Taylor was picking on a lesser person.

Its like kicking a dog or something, he added.

Lebidsaid he wishes investigators would have been able to test Taylors blood alcohol content. But by the time a blood warrant was drawn, it had been about seven hours,Lebidsaid. Any kind of blood evidence that would have indicated blood alcohol content wasnt going to be useful.

ToLebid, it was a homicide case, but Floridas Stand Your Ground law complicated things.

The Lee County Sheriffs Office turned in the investigation as an agency review which means facts gatheredwere turned over to the State Attorneys Office for a determination on the prosecution,Lebidsaid.

Lebidsaidhe doesnt understand why the case was not brought to justice.

I think thats kind of the design of what court is, asking a jury of your peers or authority figure in your area to reviewthese kindofactions,Lebidsaid.We have someone who was shot to death. We have someone whose life was taken from them.

I havent seen this before,Lebidadded.

Lebidsaid thesheriffsoffice once again presentedthe caseto prosecutorsin 2020and they received the sameresponse.

But, ultimately,Lebidsaid Taylor wasnt forced into the situation.

You sought this situation out, he said. You created this opportunity.

Full statement by Matthew S. Toll, the attorney representing James Taylor:

This matter has been reviewed, re-reviewed, and re-reviewed again. The State Attorneys Office, multiple candidates for State Attorney, prosecutors, detectives, numerous other police officers, Judges, an arbitrator, a mediator, numerous attorneys, and a number of members of the media have spent what must be thousands of hours of time in the aggregate considering and analyzing the decisions my client made over a few minutes during the night in question. There have been at least three lawsuits between the parties originating from the incident. All are now resolved, and the litigation costs have all but bankrupted my client and his family. Enough already. It is time to allow an innocent man who was defending himself and his wife from a violent attack in the middle of the night to move forward in peace.

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Sifting Clarice Starling through the CBS crimetime filter means we should know what to expect from "Clarice," the network's new take on the FBI agent made famous by "The Silence of the Lambs."

Three decades have passed since Jonathan Demme's multiple Oscar-winning film first hit theaters, and in thewake of its success the fear and fascination that movie's cannibalistic antagonist struck in people gave rise to an entire subgenre of pop culture freakery.

We know CBS's contribution to this. Entire drama franchises around lurid murders and the dedicated, complex men and women who solve them inform the look and execution of TV procedural to this day."CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" kicked its popularity into high gear, leading to the eventual arrival of "Criminal Minds" and its endless parade of women in cages, freezers, boxes, hidden sheds, what have you.

Some may remember that inaugural "CSI" star William Petersen played Thomas Harris' FBI profiler Will Graham in Michael Mann's 1986 "Red Dragon" adaptation "Manhunter." Once we add that to the equation the status of "Clarice" stands as something of an ouroboros both in popular culture and for CBS, cycling back to the start of it all.

Would the procedurals evocative of the CBS brand look as they do if Demme's film hadn't been such a runaway hit? We can't know the answer to that question. We do know that close-ups on nibbled waterlogged corpses are no great shakes these days, and we encounter them in the premiere of "Clarice" . . . but not before flashbacks showing Buffalo Bill sewing what is supposed to be the lotioned skin of his victims. My brains registers these recurring images as, what, latex maybe?

Don't mistake my meaning here these are all disgusting sights, but we've seen them time and again on this network and elsewhere. Placing a new take on Clarice Starling (courtesy of Australian actor Rebecca Breeds) doesn't make the imagery or the violence it illustrates any fresher, or illuminate anything we don't already think we know about the young FBI agent herself.

Nevertheless series creator Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet try their damndest to flesh out what we know about Clarice by digging into the lasting effects of the trauma she must have sustained while contending with the rank misogyny within the Bureau that a woman like Agent Starling would have to overcome. This aspect of the drama could give it some meat, if the series can persuade viewers to get past what "Clarice" isn't, or what it's missing.

The answer to both can be captured in a word that's also a passionately adored TV title: "Hannibal."

You will not hear Dr. Lecter's name uttered in "Clarice," nor will you see him. Welcome the world of rights issues: MGM, which produces "Clarice," only has the rights to characters and storylines created for "The Silence of the Lambs." The DeLaurentiisCompany, which produced Bryan Fuller's "Hannibal" series, owns the rights to the character of Hannibal Lecter.

So although Dr. Lecter wriggled inside of Clarice's psyche and at this point in the story has escaped and is seeking out his next accompaniment to favas beans and a nice chianti, Clarice is haunted more by the image of Bill and the clouds of death's-head hawkmoths infesting her brain.

The closest the three episodes flirt with referencing the famous connoisseur of human organs is when the therapist (Shawn Doyle) assigned to evaluate her fitness to serve impatiently accuses her of deflecting for a full year, "which is understandable, given your last therapist was an inmate in the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane and, you know, ate his patients."

"You let that relationship be intimate," he says later, asking, "How do you carry that? How do you carry his rage? . . . I'll put it another way. What do you do with all your rage?" Sustained efforts to answer these questions could eventually make"Clarice" interesting. But the three episodes provided for review mainly reveal a losing struggle against the past not merely the character's but that of the franchise.

"Clarice" picks up a year after the events of "Silence of the Lambs," and the writers drop reminders throughout the script that this is indeed a period piece, mainly in the form of Clarice being designated famous by way of 1993-era tabloids.

Because of this she's taken refuge in the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit and would have happily remained nestled in its anonymity if not for the intercession of Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson), who is now a politically ambitious attorney general.

Martin, the senator whose daughter Catherine (Marnee Carpenter) Clarice saved from that infamous hole in Buffalo Bill's basement, believes the young agent has a fresh perspective on a pair of homicides involving female (naturally) victims found stabbed to death and covered in bite marks. Clarice does develop a theory, just not one that her fellow agents expect or appreciate.

If not for the quotidian feel of "Clarice" the undercurrent of animosity Clarice faces on the violent crimes task force to which she's assigned could have given the audience something to dig into. But even that feels network typical her new boss Paul Krendler (Michael Cudlitz) can't stand that she's intelligent, capable and a young woman who rose in after being plucked from Quantico, while her fellow agents (played by Nick Sandow, Kal Penn and Lucca De Oliveira) begrudge the awe she inspires in the public despite only having worked one case.

Even the therapist behaves more like an enemy than a support, but this may be for any number of reasons . . . sexist resentment? Maybe he wants to eat her. Who can say. But his posturing takes up less mental bandwidth than a viewer's internal struggle to refrain from comparing Breeds to Jodie Foster, or the very everyday "Clarice" to the artistically adventurous, visually intoxicating, seductive and disturbing "Hannibal."

Everything about "Clarice" wrestles between the desire to evoke its direct predecessor and stand apart from it. Breeds cranks out a fine performancethat doesn't feel original to her, and that might not be entirely her fault since she's swimming in the wake of a giant standard bearer for a franchise that's been hit and miss.

The part she's taken up is a hit though, and that means one can't help thinking the Appalachian accent rolling around in her mouth sounds like something between Foster's and Julianne Moore's from the terrible 2001 version of "Hannibal." (Fortunately for "Clarice" (and Special Agent Krendler) that's set sometime down the road. )

A number of the parts that make the whole of "Clarice" feel like this is because this show is designed as a commonplace sequel to an extraordinary film. This only serves to make, say, the gray filter plunging the scenes into shadowlook pancake flat or to rob familiar characters such as Cudlitz's Krendler of possible depth and expansion.

At the same time Devyn Tyler picks up the role of Clarice's Quantico friend Ardelia Mapp (played by Kasi Lemmons in "Silence") and seems to have a good time with it, adding glimmers of levity into the bleakness. Both of these characters and actors could grow into something more than we've seen from them so far, mostly because we don't know much about them.

But we know Clarice, or at least we think we do; so does Breed, whose efforts keep us from writing off "Clarice" entirely. Kurtzman and Lumet also chose to diverge from any serial killer of the week expectations by throwing us off that assumption straightaway, and putting it aside entirely in the second episode to have Agent Starling face off with a cult.

Turning away from past associations would be a fine choice for this character and the continuation of this franchise if it were airing anywhere else. Here it restricts a uniquely charismatic figure by placing her inside of a standard procedural, which is a shame becauseClarice Starling isn't your average agent. In this show, on this network, she might as well be.

"Clarice" premieres Thursday, Feb.11 at 10 p.m. on CBS.

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After We Fell is an upcoming 2021 movie and is the third installment in the After movie seriesdirected byRoger Kumbleand written byAnna Toddand Mario Celaya. It is based on the 2014new adult fictionnovel of the same name by Todd, and the second part of the movie series released last year and was called After We Collided. The movies revolve around the love story of a young couple named Hardin and Tessa and how they overcome roadblocks in their relationship.

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The After We Fell cast includes Josephine Langford as the lead, playing the character of Tessa Young. Langford is an Australian actor and is mostly known for the After movie series. Josephine has appeared in several short films likeSex Ed,When Separating, andGypsy Blood.She made her screen debut in the 2017 indie film titled Pulse,which screened at film festivals. Lanford went on to star in a supporting role in the American horror film titled Wish Upon alongside Joey King and made her television debut with Wolf Creek.In 2019, Langford also appeared in the Americanhorroranthologyweb televisionseriesInto the Darkas Clair.

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After We Fell movie cast also stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the male lead opposite Langford. He portrays the character of Hardin Scott in the romantic drama film. Hero is an English actor and model and has played the character of11-year-oldTom Riddle, the young version of the antagonistLord Voldemort, in the filmHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. His popular works include The Silencing, Possession with Intent to Supply, Private Peaceful, The Tunnel, Cleaning Up among others.

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The star cast of After We Fell has Chance Perdomo playing the role of Landon Gibson. Perdomo is an American-born English actor and has appeared inKilled by My Debt and played Ambrose Spellman on theNetflixseriesChilling Adventures of Sabrina. Chance has appeared in several films like Longfield Drive, The Importance of Skin, and television series like Midsomer Murders, Hetty Feather, andShakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators.

The cast of After We Fell movie will have Louise Lombard portray the character of Trish Daniels. Lombard is an English actor and known for her roles asEvangeline Eliott in theBBCdrama seriesThe House of EliottandSofia Curtisin theCBSdrama seriesCSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Her popular movies include Tale of the Mummy, My Kingdom, Countdown, Hidalgo, Shadow Wolves among others.

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