Iran ( Mother of blogger who was killed -was attacked while at son's gravesite )

mother of dead blogger attacked while mourning son at his graveside

Posted: 14 December 2012 Sattar Beheshti died in “Cyber Police” detention facility The mother of an Iranian blogger who died in custody last month was attacked by security forces as she mourned at her son’s graveside on Thursday (13 Dec), prompting Amnesty International to renew its call for a thorough and impartial investigation into the 35-year-old’s death. Beheshti died in the “Cyber Police” detention facility on 3 November after being arrested on suspicion of "acting against the national security" because of his online activities on social networking sites. He was later buried on 7 November. As the family and friends of Beheshti marked 40 days since his death – the end of the traditional mourning period for the deceased, eyewitnesses report that security forces attacked mourners, with one of them dragging Sattar Beheshti's mother on the ground by her hair. The attack came amid ongoing harassment of the blogger’s family members and concerns about the independence of investigations into his death. Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa programme Deputy Director Ann Harrison said: “What is especially devastating for Sattar Beheshti’s family is that even though their traditional mourning period has come to an end, there are still many unanswered questions about how and why he died while in the custody of the Cyber Police. “The Iranian authorities must ensure that the ongoing investigations into the incident – and all other deaths in custody – are thorough, impartial and in line with international human rights law and standards, leading to those responsible being brought to justice. Intimidation and attacks against Sattar Beheshti’s family must not be tolerated.” On 27 November, Iran’s police chief, Brigadier General Esma'il Ahmadi-Moghaddam, accepted partial responsibility for Beheshti’s death in custody. The head of Iran’s Cyber Police was subsequently removed from his position, but a member of the parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Commission later denied the removal had anything to do with the blogger’s death. Family members have also been threatened with arrest if they speak to the media about the case. The family’s lawyer has expressed concern that the case – which is currently the subject of a criminal investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office – may not go to court. Ann Harrison added: “It is very troubling that Sattar Beheshti’s family members appear to be under pressure not to demand their right to justice over this fatal incident. “In addition to bringing charges against anyone responsible for torture or for causing his death, without imposing the death penalty, the authorities must not block this – or any other’s family’s – right to access justice.” Amnesty has repeatedly raised concerns about torture and other ill-treatment of detainees in Iran, including cases where deaths in custody appear to have resulted from such treatment. Background Following his arrest on 30 October at his home in Robat Karim, Beheshti’s family had no further contact with him until 6 November when they received a telephone call telling them to collect his body from Kahrizak detention centre. Before being transferred to the Cyber Police detention centre, Beheshti had been held for one night in Section 350 of Tehran’s Evin Prison. While there, he lodged a complaint with the Evin Prison authorities claiming that his interrogators had tortured him after his arrest. Fellow prisoners at Evin Prison later wrote an open letter corroborating that allegation, saying they had seen torture marks on his body. The Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and the Judiciary’s High Commission for Human Rights have both launched investigations into the incident. But various judicial officials and parliamentarians have given contradictory explanations for the blogger’s death even before the investigations have been completed, raising serious concerns about their impartiality, independence and transparency.

MEXICO ( Hit man gets 54 dollars to kill- boys paid 500 pesos to kill in Juarez )

Nogales, Sonora, hit man is paid $54

The eye's of evil !  (14 yr old hit man)

 

Sonoran police revealed the price tag on a life over the weekend, and it was cheap.
A U.S. citizen living in Nogales, Sonora, was in a seafood restaurant just after midnight Sunday morning when a gunman came in and shot him. The accused killer later told police he was paid 700 pesos for the hit, according to Sonoran news reports.
That's about $54.
The victim, Jonathan Martin Morgan, was eating at Mariscos La Bocanita, about a mile south of the border. The gunman shot him six times, and Morgan died in an ambulance taking him across the border for treatment.
Morgan, 20, was an admitted drug smuggler, having been caught driving a pickup loaded with about 400 pounds of marijuana near Lochiel, Ariz., on April 9, 2011. He was awaiting sentencing in that case.

14 yr old gets 3 years in mexican prison for murder.

Police arrested Iván Aniceto Estrada López and accused him of the murder. In an interrogation, police told Sonoran reporters, the accused killer gave this version of events: A man known as Juan approached Estrada López outside a church about 10 p.m. He offered to pay him 700 pesos to kill a man.
Estrada López agreed, and Juan gave him a 9 mm pistol and took him to find Morgan. Juan pointed out Morgan at the restaurant and left, Estrada López told police.
Then Estrada López went inside, shot him six times and fled.
By the time police arrested him about an hour later, Estrada López had already spent 200 of the pesos on drugs, Radio XENY reported.
The price tag, while apparently low, was not the lowest seen in Mexico during the years of drug-war violence.
Officials of Mexico's social development ministry said in December 2010 that boys as young as 13 were being paid 500 pesos for a killing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Nogales, Sonora, experienced a wave of drug-war violence from 2008 through 2011, but it began easing in late 2011, with eruptions becoming more rare and less random.

MEXICO ( Sinaloa 9 killed on Christmas Eve- Shot with assault weapons ) Cartel wars

By Martin Duran Romero / Associated PressAssociated Press

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) - A group of armed men stormed a town in the mountains of the western state of Sinaloa on Christmas Eve and shot nine men to death with assault weapons, then dumped their bodies on a sports field as part of a war between Mexico's two most powerful cartels, officials said Wednesday.

"El Chapo " Guzman

Sinaloa state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez said the town of El Platanar de Los Ontiveros had become part of a dispute between the Sinaloa cartel controlled by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted man, and remnants of the Beltran-Leyva cartel who have allied themselves with the Zetas, a paramilitary organized-crime group founded by ex-members of the Mexican special forces. "Everything is linked to a dispute for territory and the buying and selling of drugs," he said. The prosecutor said the nine victims were eating Christmas dinner when gunmen entered the town on foot, surrounded them, and opened fire with assault rifles. They decapitated one victim with a machete and dumped the bodies on field, Higuera Gomez said. He said the army had set up a checkpoint nearby to hunt for drugs, but the killers had avoided it by entering the town on foot.

Beltran-leyva members

 Another cartel fight is raging to the south, along the border between the state of Jalisco and Michoacan. At least seven people have been killed in the area since Sunday. Officials in both states said Wednesday they could not confirm local media reports of more than a dozen new deaths in clashes in the area. Michoacan authorities did report the slaying of a mother and her three children in the capital, Morelia, which has been mostly spared the worst of the state's drug violence.
Prosecutors said 41-year-old Maria Elena Lopez Bautista and her 19-year-old daughter and 18- and 13-year-old sons appeared to have been tied hand and foot with wire and burned to death inside their home on Monday.Officials did not speculate on the motive for the crime, but the border with Jalisco has been hit by clashes between Michoacan's dominant Knights Templar cartel, and the New Generation cartel that operates in much of Jalisco.

MILWAUKEE ( Husband kills wife while she is patrolling as police officer ) Christmas Eve

 

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The husband of a police officer who was fatally shot on Christmas Eve while patrolling in suburban Milwaukee has been arrested in connection with her death, authorities said Thursday.

Benjamin Sebena, of Menomonee Falls, was booked into Milwaukee County Jail on Wednesday night on a tentative charge of first-degree intentional homicide, the Wauwatosa police department said in a statement.
He has not been formally charged in the death of his 30-year-old wife, Jennifer Sebena. A message was left with the district attorney's office seeking comment.
Ben Sebena, 30, is a decorated U.S. Marine who served two tours in Iraq before suffering severe arm and leg injuries in a mortar attack, according to Pastor Scott Arbeiter at Elmbrook Church in nearby Brookfield.
Police officers found Sebena's body in the early hours of Monday morning after she failed to respond to radio calls. She had been shot several times. Police have released few details about the shooting.
Jennifer Sebena had worked for the Wauwatosa police department for two years and her death was the first in active duty in the department's 96-year history. Wauwatosa is a city of about 46,000 people just west of Milwaukee.
Sebena's funeral is scheduled for Saturday.

El Paso ( McDonald's drive through-argument over french fries suspect points gun at employee )

Northeast El Paso McDonald's

By Adriana M. Chávez / El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com

Posted: 12/26/2012 02:41:19 PM MST

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Tyler Velasquez, 17 (El Paso Police Department)

Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with an alleged assault at a Northeast El Paso McDonald's restaurant last week. Tyler Velasquez, 17, was arrested Christmas Day at his Northeast El Paso home. Police allege that Velasquez was with Jesus Medina, 20, when Medina pointed a gun at a 19-year-old employee at the McDonald's at 9461 Dyer. Police said the incident took place at 4:05 p.m. Dec. 19. Velasquez allegedly pulled up at the restaurant's drive-through in a Mercury Grand Marquis with Medina in the passenger seat. During an argument with the McDonald's employee, Medina allegedly pulled a black gun from his waistband and pointed it at the employee as Velasquez drove away. Velasquez faces a charge of aggravated assault and was booked into the El Paso County Jail on a $5,000 bond. Medina, who faces an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge, was arrested on Dec. 20 and booked into the El Paso County Jail on a $45,000 bond.

TUCSON Az ( Man starts fireworks show to soon- In his garage )

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Deputies responded to a home on the north west side after the homeowner set off a small explosion in his garage while trying to make self-exploding targets.
Deputy Tom Peine with the Pima County Sheriff's Department tells KGUN9 that deputies responded to a home near Horizon Hills Drive and Galaxy Road where a man was creating explosives in his garage.

There was minor damage to the garage and the man also received minor injuries, but he was not taken to the hospital.
Peine says there is no danger to the home, or any homes in the area, but deputies are working to clear the scene.
They are still trying to determine what the man was trying to make. Northwest Fire District also responded and Capt. Adam Goldberg tells KGUN9 the man was making pyrotechnics to be used on New Year's Eve.
No word yet on if the man will be charged with anything.

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!