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Women’s rights campaigners have blasted the sentence handed to Chris Brown for his attack on Rihanna, insisting the R&B star should have been jailed.

Brown was given six months hard community labor, five years probation, and ordered to stay away from the singer after pleading guilty to felony assault.

He threatened to kill the singer and repeatedly punched, bit, and slapped her during the horrifying attack in his car after a pre-Grammy Awards party in Los Angeles in February.

Brown admitted the assault in June and was sentenced at an L.A. court on Tuesday after striking a deal with prosecutors.

But campaigners have criticized his punishment, insisting it sends the wrong message to perpetrators of domestic abuse.
U.S. Women’s Institute chief Roslyn Muraskin says, “I think it is terrible. Here is a guy that beat up his girlfriend – he deserves to see some prison time.”

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Just hours after Chris Brown was ordered to stay away from her for five years!

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With the MTV Video Music Awards coming up Sept. 13, Taylor Swift, who’s set to perform for the first time at this year’s bash in New York City, is looking for fashion inspirations.

“I think with the VMAs it’s all about color and being risky,” Swift says in an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the country starlet’s West Side Story-themed VMA promo, which will start airing on MTV on Friday night.

Whose style standard is she following?

“I think Rihanna has always been amazing at the VMAs,” she says. “Everything that she’s decided to do as far as fashion on the red carpet, she takes chances.”

Swift, 19, knows what she’s performing at the show – a fresh version of her song “You Belong With Me” from her hit album Fearless – but her outfits are another story.

“I actually have no idea what I’m going to wear for my performance,” she says, “or the red carpet so I better get on that.”

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Rihanna shows up to dinner at Cipriani in NYC with her producer sporting shades, platform ankle boots and what appears to be a neon star pastie on Jul 28, 2009. Lingering just outside of Cipriani’s in his SUV is a nervous looking Chris Brown talking to someone on his cell phone. Are the two making plans in NYC in spite of restraining order?

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