Detained Americans Fast Facts
Currently Detained Americans
Kai Li
September 2016 – Kai Li, a naturalised US citizen born in China, is detained while visiting relatives in Shanghai.
July 2018 – He is sentenced to ten years in prison for espionage following a secret trial held in August 2017.
Baquer and Siamak Namazi
October 2015 – Siamak Namazi, a Dubai-based businessman with dual US and Iranian citizenship, is detained while visiting relatives in Tehran.
February 2016 – Baquer Namazi, a former UNICEF official and father of Siamak Namazi, is also detained, his wife Effie Namazi says on Facebook. He is an Iranian-American.
October 2016 – The men are sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $4.8 million, according to Iran’s official news channel IRINN. Iran officials say five people were convicted and sentenced for “cooperating with Iran’s enemies,” a government euphemism that usually implies cooperating with the United States.
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Yaphet Kotto, actor who ranged from Bond villain in Live and Let Die to Baltimore police detective – obituary
The Bond film s script made woefully bad attempts to capture authentic Harlem street talk, recalled Kotto
Yaphet Kotto as Lt Al Giardello of the Baltimore homicide squad
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Yaphet Kotto, the actor who has died aged 81, brought a memorably swaggering menace to his role as the Bond villain in Live and Let Die, Roger Moore’s first outing as 007, and later proved equally compelling as tough but decent characters in Alien, The Running Man and the television series Homicide: Life on the Street.
Hawaii Magazine
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Paddle the Kaiwi Channel
The determined all-female paddling crews who were first to dare the Molokai to Oahu crossing, a race once restricted to men.
Sep 12, 2017
Considered the pinnacle of long-distance Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing, the Kaiwi Channel is a grueling 41-mile stretch of open ocean separating the Hawaiian Islands of Molokai and Oahu. In Hawaiian,
ka iwi suitably means “the bone” it takes every muscle and fiber of the human body to complete, a reminder that, when one’s physicality is stripped away and tested, our ka iwi is truly all we are.