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This Happened

This Happened — June 4: Angelina Jolie Is Born

U.S. mega movie star Angelina Jolie was born on this day in 1975, in Los Angeles, California.

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What was Angelina Jolie's childhood like?

Angelina Jolie grew up in a family deeply involved in the entertainment industry, with her father being actor Jon Voight and her mother being actress Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie attended various schools and lived in different locations due to her parents' careers.

When did Angelia Jolie start acting?

Angelina Jolie began her acting career in the mid-1990s. It was her breakthrough performance in the 1998 film "Gia" that garnered critical acclaim and brought her recognition as an actress. From that point onward, Jolie's career gained momentum, and she went on to establish herself as a prominent figure in the film industry.

Did Angelina Jolie engage in humanitarian work during her youth?

While Jolie's humanitarian work is often associated with her later years, she showed an early interest in social causes. At the age of 24, she became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which marked the beginning of her extensive humanitarian efforts.

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Big Brother For The People: India's CCTV Strategy For Cracking Down On Police Abuse

"There is nothing fashionable about installing so many cameras in and outside one’s house," says a lawyer from a Muslim community. And yet, doing this has helped members of the community prove unfair police action against them.

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Survellance and tight security at the Lal Chowk area in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India on October 4, 2022

Sukanya Shantha

MUMBAI — When sleuths of the National Investigating Agency suddenly descended on human rights defender and school teacher Abdul Wahid Shaikh’s house on October 11, he knew exactly what he needed to do next.

He had been monitoring the three CCTVs that are installed on the front and the rear of his house — a chawl in Vikhroli, a densely populated area in suburban Mumbai. The cameras told him that a group of men and women — some dressed in Mumbai police’s uniform and a few in civil clothes — had converged outside his house. Some of them were armed and few others with batons were aggressively banging at the door asking him to immediately let them in.

This was not the first time that the police had landed at his place at 5 am.

When the policemen discovered the CCTV cameras outside his house, they began hitting it with their batons, destroying one of them mounted right over the door. This action was captured by the adjacent CCTV camera. Shaikh, holed up in his house with his wife and two children, kept pleading with the police to stop destroying his property and simply show them an official notice.

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