Busan Festival selection puts emphasis on greater China WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 38 In this Aug 4, 2014 photo provided by Rahul Saharan, Indian acid attack victim Laxmi, 22, poses during a fashion photo shoot in New Delhi, India. — AP photos Indian acid attack victims Rupa, left, and Ritu pose during a fashion photo shoot in New Delhi, India. Acid victims’ photo shoot draws attention in India fashion photo shoot featuring five victims of acid Laxmi, now 22, was also 15 when she was attacked by attacks is drawing wide attention in India. While the her brother’s 32-year-old friend after she refused his mar- Acountry keeps no official statistics on acid attacks, riage proposal. Earlier this year, US first lady Michelle there are regular reports in the media of attackers target- Obama presented her with the International Women of ing victims to disfigure or blind them, often because of Courage Award for campaigning against such attacks. Ritu, spurned sexual advances. The 41 photos show 22-year-old 22, was attacked by her cousin during a property dispute. Rupa and four friends laughing and striking playful poses Sisters Sonam, 22, and Chanchal, 17, were asleep when while wearing some of her fashion designs. acid was poured over them by a group of men who had “I told them to be natural. I didn’t do any makeup or been harassing them in their village in the northern state editing. I told them, you look beautiful and you have to be of Uttar Pradesh. the way you are,” said the photographer, Rahul Saharan, In all five cases, the girls’ attackers were convicted, who volunteers with the Stop Acid Attacks charity and is though such crimes in India often go unpunished. Some working on a documentary about acid victims. “They are 1,500 acid attacks are reported worldwide every year, very confident, so it was not too hard for me.” according to the London-based group Acid Survivors Trust The photos have been shared widely since being post- International, though it says the actual number is likely ed Aug 8 on the Facebook page run by the group, and higher. India passed a law last year severely limiting sales have also been picked up by TV stations and newspapers. of acid, but Stop Acid Attacks said it has since counted at The joy and confidence the five women display defy the least 200 attacks. — AP horrific stories they tell. Rupa’s face was doused with acid when she was 15 years old by a stepmother unwilling to pay her marriage expenses. The wedding was called off. The photo shoot has Indian acid attack victim Ritu poses during a fashion brought in funding that will enable her dream of opening Indian acid attack victim Ritu poses during a fashion photo shoot. a boutique to come true. photo shoot. Jennifer Lawrence requests Wahlberg and McCarthy tie the knot onnie Wahlberg’s “Favorite Girl” Jenny McCarthy is restaurant called Wahlburgers that’s run by his brother Paul. nude pics investigation now his wife. The couple tied the knot Sunday in a cer- He has two sons from his first marriage. McCarthy recently Demony outside Chicago, McCarthy’s publicist, Brad left “The View” and now hosts a radio show on SiriusXM. She ennifer Lawrence has contacted authorities to investigate resulted in convictions. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller Cafarelli, confirmed. It’s the second marriage for both 45- has a son from her first marriage. The couple began dating who stole and posted nude images of the Oscar winner declined to comment on whether the agency was involved. year-old Wahlberg and 41-year-old Mccarthy. Wahlberg still last year. — AP Jonline, a publicist for the actress said. Intimate images of How widespread the hacking of celebrities photos was is not performs with his boy band New Kids on the Block and also Lawrence, who stars in “The Hunger Games” film franchise and immediately clear. Some of the images were quickly stars in the CBS police drama “Blue Bloods.” won an Academy Award for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook,” denounced as fakes. He also appears in an A&E reality show about a family began appearing online Sunday. Naked images purporting to be of other female stars were also posted, although the authen- Truly humiliated ticity of many couldn’t be confirmed. The source of the leak was Some cybersecurity experts speculated that hackers may unclear. “This is a flagrant violation of privacy,” Lawrence’s publi- have obtained a cache of private celebrity images by exploiting cist Liz Mahoney wrote in a statement. weaknesses in an online image-storing “The authorities have been contacted platform. “It is important for celebrities and and will prosecute anyone who posts the the general public to remember that stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.” images and data no longer just reside on Mahoney declined to provide further the device that captured it,” security details, including which authorities were researcher Ken Westin wrote in a blog post contacted. Lawrence, 24, is a three-time Monday. “Once images and other data are Oscar nominee. Apple spokeswoman uploaded to the cloud, it becomes much Natalie Kerris said the company was more difficult to control who has access to investigating whether any iCloud it, even if we think it is private.” Private infor- accounts had been tampered with, but mation and images of celebrities are fre- she did not give any further details. quent targets for hackers. Last year, a site “We take user privacy very seriously posted credit reports, Social Security num- and are actively investigating this report,” bers and other financial info on celebrities, she said. Actress Mary Elizabeth including Jay Z and his wife Beyonce, Mel Winstead also confirmed that nude pho- Gibson, Ashton Kutcher and many others. tos of her were posted online. “To those Johansson, Kunis and Aguilera were of you looking at photos I took with my hacked by a Florida man, Christopher husband years ago in the privacy of our Chaney, who used publicly available infor- home, hope you feel great about your- mation to hack into the email accounts of selves,” Winstead posted on Twitter. more than 50 people in the entertainment Winstead, who starred in “Final industry. “I have been truly humiliated and Destination 3” and “Abraham Lincoln: embarrassed,” Johansson said in a tearful Vampire Hunter,” wrote that she thought the images had been videotaped statement played in court at Chaney’s sentencing destroyed. “Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can in December 2012. “That feeling of security can never be given only imagine the creepy effort that went into this,” Winstead back and there is no compensation that can restore the feeling wrote. one has from such a large invasion of privacy,” Aguilera wrote in The FBI has investigated previous leaks of nude celebrity a statement before Chaney’s sentencing. — AP images, including leaks involving Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera and footage of television sports reporter Erin Andrews in a Tennessee hotel room. Those cases File photo released by ABC shows co-host Jenny McCarthy with her fiance Donnie Wahlberg after she announced her engagement on the daytime series ‘The View,’ in New York. — AP.