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"Lalla Batoul Benaîssa () is believed to be the first woman in modern Morocco to have been imprisoned for political reasons. In 1910, she was jailed and tortured by Sultan Abdelhafid as the wife of El-Bacha Benaïssa, the Governor of Fez and one of the principal aides of his brother Abdelaziz whom he had overthrown in 1908. In 1910, writing for The Times, Walter Harris revealed that Batoul had been imprisoned in a palace cell in Fez. Harris describes the events as follows: > [The sultan] gave orders that the fortune [of the governor of Fez] was to be > found; and thus fresh privations and more floggings ensued, but all to no > avail. Then the women were arrested, amongst them the aristocratic wife of > the Governor of Fez, a lady of good family and high position. It was thought > that she would know, and disclose the hidden treasure. She was tortured, but > disclosed nothing. The torturing consisted of her being chained to irons and hung naked on a wall in the crucifixion position. Under the personal supervision of Abdelhafid, she underwent flogging sessions while her breasts were seized in a vice. The reason for her capture and torture was Abdelhafid's intent to arrest all the aides who had served his brother Abdelaziz. These included Batoul's husband, El-Bacha Benaïssa, one of his closest aides, together with over 20 members of his family. In 2013, the Moroccan historian Maati Monjib discovered documents in the colonial archives in Nantes which revealed that Lalla Batoul was not only an intelligent and cultured aristocrat, she had a well-developed set of connections with Europeans living in Morocco. Her torture in the presence of the sultan demonstrates how the monarchy was ready to repress women who exceeded their assigned roles. References Moroccan women in politics 19th-century Moroccan women Moroccan prisoners and detainees Moroccan torture victims 19th-century births 20th-century deaths Moroccan feminists "
"Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis (25 September 1793 - 16 September 1875), formerly Lady Lucy Graham, was the wife of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis. Lady Lucy was the daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, and his wife, the former Lady Caroline Maria Montagu. She married the earl, then Edward Herbert, MP, heir to the earldom, on 9 February 1818.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. He succeeded to the earldom in 1839, at which point Lucy became Countess of Powis. The couple had seven children: *Unnamed daughter Herbert *Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (1818–1891) *Lady Lucy Caroline Herbert (c.1819–1884), who married Frederick Calvert and had no children *Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Herbert (1821–1906), who married Hugh Montgomery and had children *Lt.-Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Egerton Herbert (1822–1876), who married Lady Mary Caroline Louisa Thomas Petty-FitzMaurice and had children *Very Rev. Hon. George Herbert (1825–1894), Dean of Hereford, who married Elizabeth Beatrice Sykes and had children *Hon. Robert Charles Herbert (1827–1902), who married Anna Maria Cludde and had children *Maj.-Gen. William Henry Herbert (1834–1909), who married Sybella Augusta Milbank and had children. The Earl of Powis died on 17 January 1848 at his home in Powis Castle after being accidentally shot during a pheasant hunt by one of his sons, the Hon. Robert Charles Herbert, ten days earlier. He was buried at St Mary's Parish Church, Welshpool. The countess herself died in 1875 at Walcot, Shropshire, where the family had another home. A portrait of the countess, at around the time of her marriage, was painted by Frederick Richard Say and is held at Powis Castle. A mineral collection donated to the National Museum of Wales in 1929 by George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, Lucy's grandson, was for a time thought to have belonged to her, but was actually the collection made by her predecessor as Countess of Powis, Henrietta Clive. References 1793 births 1875 deaths British countesses "
"Vinay Kumar Nandicoori (1 March 1969) is an Indian immunologist, biotechnologist and a staff scientists at the National Institute of Immunology, India. He is known for his studies on the kinase-mediated signaling networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative pathogen of tuberculosis. Holder of a master's degree in biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Nandicoori did his post doctoral work the University of Virginia and Texas A & M University. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 58 of them. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2010. He is also a member of Guha Research Conference, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and a recipient of the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award, which he received in 2009. Selected bibliography * Lochab, S., Singh, Y., Sengupta, S. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2020) Mycobacterium tuberculosis exploits host ATM kinase for survival advantage through SecA2 secretome. eLife Mar 30;9. pii: e51466. doi: 10.7554/eLife.51466. * Kaur, P., Rausch, M., Malakar, B., Watson, U., Damle, N. P., Chawla, Y., Srinivasan, S., Sharma, K., Schneider, T., Jhingan, G. D., Saini, D., Mohanty, D., Grein, F & Nandicoori, V. K. (2019) LipidII Interaction with specific residues of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknB extracytoplasmic domain governs its optimal activation. Nature Communications 10, 1231 doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09223-9. * Soni, V., Upadhyay, S., Suryadevara, P., Samla, G., Singh, A., Yogeeswari, P., Sriram, D. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2015) Depletion of M. tuberculosis GlmU from infected murine lungs effects the clearance of the pathogen. Plos Pathogens 11, e1005235 * Jain, P., Malakar, B., Khan, M.Z., Lochab, S., Singh, A. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2018) Delineating FtsQ mediated regulation of cell division in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Biol. Chem. 293(32):12331-12349. * Arora, D., Chawla, Y., Malakar, B., Singh, A. & Nandicoori, V.K. (2018) The transpeptidase PbpA and non-canonical transglycosylase RodA of Mycobacterium tuberculosis play important roles in regulating bacterial cell lengths. J. Biol. Chem. 293, 6497-6516. * Khan, M.Z., Bhaskar, A., Upadhyay, S., Kumari, P., Ramani, R.S., Jain, P., Singh, A., Kumar, D., Bhavesh, N.S. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2017) Protein kinase G confers survival advantage to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Biol. Chem. 292, 16093-16108. * Sharma, A. K., Arora, D., Singh, L.K., Gangwal, A., Sajid, A., Molle, V., Singh, Y. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2016) Serine/threonine protein phosphatase PstP of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is necessary for accurate cell division and survival of pathogen. J. Biol. Chem. 291, 24215-24230 * Nagarajan, S. N., Upadhyay, S., Chawla, Y., Khan, S., Naz, S., Subramanian, J., Gandotra, S. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2015) Protein kinase A (PknA) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is independently activated and is critical for growth in vitro and survival of the pathogen in the host. J Biol Chem. 290, 9626-9645. * Rajanala, K., Sarkar, A., Jhingan, G. D., Priyadarshini, R., Jalan, M., Sengupta, S. & Nandicoori, V. K. (2014) Phosphorylation of nucleoporin Tpr governs its differential localization and is required for its mitotic function. J Cell Science. 127, 3505-3520. * Chawla, Y., Upadhyay, S., Khan, S., Nagarajan, S. N., Forti, F. & Nandicoori, V.K. (2014) Protein Kinase B (PknB) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for growth of the pathogen in vitro as well as for survival within the host. J Biol Chem. 289, 13858 – 13875. See also * Serine/threonine-specific protein kinase * Phosphorylation Notes References External links * N-BIOS Prize recipients Indian scientific authors Living people Indian academics Indian medical researchers 1969 births Scientists from Delhi Indian immunologists Indian biotechnologists Indian Institute of Technology Bombay alumni Indian Institute of Science alumni University of Virginia alumni Texas A&M; University alumni Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India "