Chinese officials shame people for wearing pyjamas

Beijing: Officials in a Chinese city, who shamed people for wearing pyjamas in public, have apologised after a public outcry. Suzhou city officials in Anhui province had released pictures of seven persons wearing their nightwear, calling it an “uncivilised behaviour” as part of a public campaign. After the publication of the pictures, several people accused the government of infringing upon people’s privacy by imposing a dress code. PTI

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Dutch farm dad ‘beat bad spirits out of kids’

The hague: A Dutchman isolated six of his children in a remote farmhouse from birth and beat them to drive out “bad spirits” from the outside world, prosecutors told a court on Tuesday. Gerrit Jan van D., 67, subjected the youngsters who were found on the farm in the village of Ruinerwold in October to “very serious physical punishment” when he thought they had been made “unclean”. AFP