IRAN ( One strong woman walks the streets of Iran- Defies a Nation) Boldly resist

This woman walks the street's of Iran to speak of her son's death (brave) uncertain if this may get her killed. If you ever stood on a corner with a "protest sign" you know it could be a lonely place,but when you lose someone you love you already have an empty place in your heart.

I don't know what I would do if my government took my son from me for blogging and put him in prison. I don't know what I would do if they gave him back to me beaten to death, but your seeing what one strong woman is doing about it!

IRAN ( Blogger - Killed in prison -Mother speaks out on Youtube )Must see

IMPACT OF INTERNET

Beheshti's death exposed Iran's political fissures as a handful of lawmakers badgered President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government and the judiciary into ordering an inquiry.

But the most effective tool in publicizing Beheshti's unusual death was the one he had chosen - the Internet.
"I really do believe this is one of the great examples of the impact of the Internet in Iran," said Mahmood Enayat, director of the Iran Media program at the University of Pennsylvania and the founder of Small Media, a non-profit group that focuses on improving information flows in closed societies.
The Internet had become a watchdog, forcing the government to react to anything gathering enough attention, he argued.
"They can't just ignore it anymore."
Although many of the details of Beheshti's detention and death are murky, some are no longer in dispute. On the night of October 30, he was arrested at his home in Robat Karim and transferred to section 350 of Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
Fellow prisoners there said he was hung from the ceiling of a cell and beaten. His arms and legs were then tied to a chair and he was beaten again. At times, his interrogators threw him on the ground and kicked him in the head and neck.

A group of political prisoners talked to Beheshti while he was detained, and slipped out a letter based on their observations and his account to opposition activists.
"When they brought Sattar to section 350, the marks of torture were visible on all parts of his body," said the letter signed by 41 prisoners and published on opposition websites.

Despite his injuries, Beheshti filed a complaint about his treatment to prison officials. Shortly before he was transferred to another detention facility, Beheshti told his fellow prisoners that his captors intended to kill him. Four days later, authorities informed his family that he was dead.

After Beheshti's death, security forces warned his family not to talk to media outlets, and security agents threatened to arrest Beheshti's sister if the family did not sign a consent form regarding the circumstances of his death, his mother said in an interview with the Persian service of German radio Deutsche Welle.

BLOOD-STAINED SHROUD

The family was also offered diye, or blood money, but Beheshti's mother, Gohar Eshqi, refused. When the family was allowed to see Beheshti's body, they noticed that blood from his knee and head had stained the burial shroud.

"They killed him and handed me back his body," Eshqi said in an interview with the pro-opposition Saham News website.

On December 13, a small crowd of friends, neighbors and family gathered to commemorate the fortieth day after Beheshti's death at his gravesite. The previous day security agents tore up notices about the ceremony in the neighborhood, Beheshti's sister Sahar told Kalame, another opposition website.

Videos of the event posted online show Eshqi, Beheshti's mother, holding his picture and shouting "I'm proud of my son" and "My son's killers must be executed." Police later attacked the crowd and beat Eshqi, wounding her leg, Sahar said.

Kalame published pictures of Eshqi's injuries.

Few Iranians could have predicted that Beheshti's death would make any waves. But the Internet buzz kept building. Websites linked with the opposition Green Movement took up the cause and published details of his detention and physical abuse. That led even conservative bloggers to speak out, concerned that the case would damage the image of the Islamic Republic.

The cyber police, a unit within the Iranian police force, was created in January 2011 with a relatively broad mandate.

While the Revolutionary Guards and Intelligence Ministry do their own web surveillance, the cyber police are mainly responsible for tracking down dissidents online.

They are also responsible for blocking websites with controversial content and for pursuing cases of web sabotage.

Earlier this year, new cyber police guidelines directed all Internet cafes to install cameras to monitor customers.

But in Beheshti's case, little sophisticated surveillance was necessary - he was blogging openly under his own name.

MEXICO (Prosecutor along with 6 others killed in Guatemala )

Prosecutor killed in Guatemala along with 6 others

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Posted: 12/24/2012 12:24:22 PM MST

GUATEMALA CITY—Guatemala's attorney general dispatched a special team Monday to investigate the slaying of a federal prosecutor and six other people in an attack near the Mexican border. Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz said she was sending prosecutors and investigators to the area of northern Guatemala where Irma Yolanda Olivares, who worked in one of the prosecutor's regional officers, was slain along with an official working for a government social service agency and five others on Sunday night. President Otto Perez Molina blamed the attack on drug traffickers, who have taken over swathes of territory along the border with Mexico. The Interior Ministry said that a group of armed, masked men had intercepted the sport-utility vehicle carrying Olivares and three other passengers, who were returning from the inauguration of a hotel in the city of La Mesilla. The attackers opened fire, then burned the victims' bodies, officials said. Three other people were found fatally shot and burned in another vehicle nearby, official said. Officials were not immediately able to determine the identities of the three or whether they were killed by the same attackers, said Ricardo Guzman, sub-secretary general in the prosecutor's office. "The death of a member of the attorney general's team is a serious attack against the institution and against the work done by each prosecutor's office to fight impunity in this country," Paz said.

NEW YORK ( Man steals 7 yr old girls puppy dog- Christmas eve ) See photo

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A dognapper snatched a pet pooch from a New York City street as a little girl and her family were finishing up their holiday shopping.
The Christmas Eve crime happened in daylight and was captured on surveillance video. A man can be seen in the video approaching Marley, a King Charles Spaniel, who was waiting patiently for his owners outside a Manhattan shop.
The man brazenly unhooked Marley’s leash, scooped the dog into his arms and walked away.
“Who would do this? It’s Christmas Eve! Tomorrow’s Christmas morning.” Mia Bendrat told WABC-TV on Monday.
The family is hoping for a Christmas miracle. Police have taken a copy of the surveillance video and the Bendrats have canvassed their Washington Heights neighborhood with flyers.
“He’s really fluffy and he’s so adorable that I can’t even trim my tree without him,” Bendrat said. “It’s like so hard to be without him.”

MEXICO ( Juarez police officer killed christmas eve dinner - Fight with wife )

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CIUDAD JUAREZ — A Juárez police officer was killed Monday night, shot dead during Christmas Eve dinner. Authorities say it all started when Agent Ricardo Escobar Haro got into an argument with his wife. He allegedly went and grabbed his gun, and the two started fighting over it. That's when the weapon allegedly went off and hit Haro, killing the 30 year-old officer. Meanwhile, police are also investigating a murder in South Juarez. A badly burned body was found in an old city dump in the Colonia Panfilo Natera. Police are still trying to identify the victim, but believe he is a male.

MEXICO ( Juarez police officers arrested for torture and making man swallow bullets )

Juárez police officers allegedly force man to swallow bullets

By Marisela Ortega Lozano / El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com

Posted: 12/24/2012 10:40:43 AM MST

Three Juárez police officers were arrested last week on charges of torture, aggravated sexual abuse and misuse of authority, all in connection to the alleged mistreatment of two men in their custody, Chihuahua General's Office in Juárez said. One of the police officers allegedly forced one of the men to swallow several bullets, according to state officials. While the men were arrested on Friday, the alleged incident took place March 6 in north Juárez after the officers stopped two men were riding a motorcycle around Norzagary Ave. and Arroyo del Mimbre Street, just a few yards from El Paso. According to state prosecutors, the three police officers stopped the men on a routine check and then they called the two men names and beat them. The police officers, prosecutors said, took both men to the former Juvenile Detention Center nearby. Once there, the alleged victims were gagged and blindfolded while being beaten up by the officers, state officials said. One of the police officers reportedly forced one of the victims to swallow several bullets after the man allegedly refused to kill his friend. Both detainees were severely beaten in order to get them to confess that they were in possession of several drugs, prosecutors said. The police officers went on beating their victims and covered them with alcohol. The officers eventually took the victims to jail on public disturbance charges, state officials said. Once in jail, one of the victims suffered several seizures and when he was taken to the hospital doctors discovered several bullets inside his stomach.
The officers were taken to Cereso prison and are awaiting an arraignment. Marisela Ortega Lozano maybe reached at mortega@elpasotimes.com; 542-6077.

KABUL afghanistan ( police women - of the middle east ) See photo's

KABUL, Afghanistan  — The policewoman who killed an American contractor in Kabul is a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but no known links to militants, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

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The policewoman, identified as Sgt. Nargas, shot 49-year-old Joseph Griffin, of Mansfield, Georgia, on Monday, in the first such shooting by a woman in a spate of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies.

Nargas walked into a heavily-guarded compound in the heart of Kabul, confronted Griffin and gunned him down with a single pistol bullet.

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The U.S-based security firm DynCorp International said on its website that Griffin was a U.S. military veteran who earlier worked with law enforcement agencies in the United States. In Kabul, he was under contract to the NATO military command to advise the Afghan police force.