Bahrain ( King Hamad wants to arrest the terrorists who killed two Asians )

Bahrain revokes citizenship of Shia activists

Bahraini authorities have revoked the citizenships of 31 Shia activists, among them two former members of parliament, for having "undermined state security," according to state news.

Bahrain has experienced unrest since March last year when the authorities crushed protests led by the Shia Muslim majority Photo: EPA/MAZEN MAHDI

11:51AM GMT 07 Nov 2012

The names of the 31 activists, including brothers Jawad and Jalal Fairuz, both ex-MPs who represented the major Shiite Al-Wefaq bloc, were listed in the BNA report, which quoted an interior ministry statement.

Also named was Ali Mashaima, son of prominent activist Hassan Mashaima who is head of the radical Shiite opposition movement Haq and who is serving a life sentence for allegedly plotting against the monarchy.

The government move comes after Bahrain late last month banned all protests and gatherings to ensure "security is maintained," after clashes between Shia-led demonstrators and security forces in the Sunni-ruled country.

The Gulf state has experienced unrest since March last year when the authorities crushed protests led by the Shia Muslim majority.

According to the International Federation for Human Rights, 80 people have died in Bahrain since the violence erupted on February 14 last year.
Hundreds of people were arrested when the security forces, aided by troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia, crushed the uprising within a month, while many activists, including some whose names appear on Wednesday's list, were tried in special military courts set up at the time.

Another former MP and leading Al-Wefaq member, Matar Matar, told AFP that "many named (on the list) were acquitted by a military court" after being charged with harming state security.

Others named on the list are currently living abroad, according to opposition sources.

Tension has been running high in the kingdom following a spate of bombings on Monday in the capital Manama which killed two Asian expatriates. Four people have been arrested in connection with the bombings.

King Hamad ordered Tuesday "the swift arrest of the terrorists who carried out the recent terrorist acts in Bahrain" and urged citizens to help "bring them to justice so they receive their punishment over this appalling act."

TURKEY Protest ( Turkish people protest over NATO- They say Go Home )

Turkish police arrest anti-Patriot protesters

Turkish people protest the arrival of NATO’s Patriot missiles in the country. (File photo)

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Turkish police have arrested dozens of protesters who condemned the arrival of NATO’s Patriot surface-to-air missiles to be deployed near the border with Syria.

Police arrested 25 protesters on Monday after they tried to get through the barricades at Incirlik Air Force Base in the city of Adana, where US troops are assembling two Patriot missile batteries to be later deployed in Gaziantep near Syria’s border.

Protests were also held in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara outside the US embassy, where angry protesters condemned what they called Ankara’s interventionist policies towards Syria.

Earlier, two ships carrying two Patriot batteries each from Germany and the Netherlands anchored at the southwestern port of Iskenderun in Turkey, as part of a NATO-authorized operation to deploy the advanced armament along the border region.

The six batteries of the US-made missiles, effective against aircraft and short-range missiles, will be deployed in the southern city of Adana and the southeastern cities of Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, along with 350 troops from each contributing country.

In December 2012, NATO approved Turkey’s request for the deployment of the Patriots in its territory. Germany’s Bundestag parliament approved the deployment - limited to one year - on December 14, 2012. Each Patriot battery has an average of 12 missile launchers. NATO says the missile systems will be operational by early February.

Syria has censured the Turkish plan to deploy the Patriots along its border, calling it another act of provocation by the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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TUCSON Az ( New Arizona law gets Activist arrested- Tucson police arrest immigrant with 5 kids ) Call Border patrol

UPDATE: Border Patrol Arrests Tucson Activist Raul Ochoa

Posted by Mari Herreras on Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:16 PM

The Range just learned that Tucson immigrant rights activist Raul Ochoa was taken into custody today by five U.S. Border Patrol and three Tucson Police Department officers. Ochoa's friends and fellow activists are urging supporters to call Border Patrol at 514-4700 to demand his release. The Range has calls to Border Patrol and TPD to get more information on why Ochoa was arrested and will post updates.
UPDATE: The Range talked to a public information officer with U.S. Border Patrol. A statement will be released as soon as it is approved. Immigrant rights organization Corazon de Tucson is also expected to release a statement soon, too.
Ochoa was reportedly arrested after trying to intervene on behalf of a father of five who was stopped by TPD. Although TPD has said in the past that it doesn't call and will not Border Patrol, it in fact called Border Patrol. A march is being planned downtown tomorrow at 4 p.m. More details soon.

YUCCA Az ( ' Dream Police ' tell arizona man to kill his mother ) see story

YUCCA, Ariz. (AP) - A Yucca man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia has told investigators that he killed his mother after being ordered by the "dream police."
The Mohave County Sheriff's Office said 46-year-old Roger Drake was arrested Friday after deputies found what they believed to be the body of his mother, 66-year-old Carol Drake, at her Yucca home. The younger Drake had initially told deputies that his mother, who had been reported missing, had gone to California to visit friends.
The body was discovered during a search warrant after Roger Drake admitted himself at the Mohave Mental Health Facility. Roger Drake told investigators that he punched Carol Drake and stabbed her numerous times with a kitchen knife.
He is being held on homicide charge. It was unclear if he had an attorney.                      
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North Wales ( Man in Court - He said ' his religion allows him to hit wife ' ) Ordered mental health treatment

Community order for Llandudno Muslim man who claimed religion allowed him to hit wife

• By Owen Hughes

 

Shamshu Miah, 58, of Alexandra Road, Llandudno

A Muslim man who claimed his religion entitled him to hit his wife has been given a community order.
Shamshu Miah, 58, of Alexandra Road, Llandudno, struck his wife three times after she did not get him a cigarette.
He later told police his religion allowed him to hit his wife if she did not do as she was told.
Yesterday Llandudno magistrates court heard his wife continued to support Miah, who suffered from bipolar episodes.

The court heard she wanted him to move back to the family home.
Miah was ordered to undertake community mental health treatment. He has to pay £85 costs.

Court trial ( For British woman who was beheaded in supermarket )

Jennifer Mills-Westley: daughters of Tenerife beheading victim to face killer in court

The family of a British grandmother who was beheaded in a Tenerife supermarket two years ago will face her killer in court when he goes on trial on Monday.

Police believe Mrs Mills-Westley had been selected at random for the attack Photo: LBT Missing Abroad/PA

By Fiona Govan, Madrid

9:33PM GMT 15 Feb 2013

Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, was killed in May 2011 in the popular resort of Los Cristianos on the Canary Island where she had a holiday home. Dean Valentinov Deyanov, 29, a homeless Bulgarian, is accused of killing the retired road safety officer from Norwich, Norfolk.

He stabbed her 14 times with a knife he grabbed from a supermarket shelf and ran into the street brandishing her severed head shouting "God is on Earth".

Mrs Mills-Wesley's two daughters, Sarah and Sam, will attend the trial and spoke Friday of their dread of coming face to face with the killer.

In a joint statement they said: "On Friday May 13, 2011, our lives changed irrevocably when we heard the shocking news that our much loved mother had been brutally murdered in Tenerife.

"Now, nearly two years later we will come face to face with the man who took her life that day and relive the heartbreaking details of the events leading up to her untimely death.

Bahrain (Police clash with protesters after funeral )

Bahrain police clash with protesters after funeral

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Police firing tear gas clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing youths in Bahrain on Saturday. Witnesses said the confrontation, in which some of the hundreds of opposition demonstrators also threw petrol bombs at police, followed the funeral of a teenager the opposition said was killed in clashes between police and activists on Friday, Reuters reported. The disturbance in the village of Sanabis west of the capital Manama was the latest in a series of skirmishes between youths and police since Friday, when opposition activists commemorated the second anniversary of a pro-democracy revolution in the U.S.-allied state. The kingdom, base for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, has been in political turmoil since the protests erupted in 2011, led by pro-democracy protesters demanding an end to the monarchy's political domination and full powers for parliament. Bahraini security forces used tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators. The protesters called for the release of all jailed activists and demanded that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa step down. Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have staged numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power. On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates invaded the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on the peaceful protesters. According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested. Physicians for Human Rights says doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they have "evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police" in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.