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YOUTH MSP Kit McCarthy will make the case for outlawing high-pitched “Mosquito” alarms at Holyrood today.
The alarms emit a high frequency sound, which most adults are unable to hear, to disperse groups of teenagers.
Mr McCarthy, who represents North East Fife in the Scottish Youth Parliament, will make the case that the alarms infringe “children and young people’s rights” at a public petitions committee meeting this morning.
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East