Iranian human rights lawyer sentenced to 6 years in jail
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GVF — A court in Iran has sentenced human rights lawyer to six years in prison, sources report.
According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammad Seifzadeh to six years in prison.
Seifzadeh, who is currently being held in Rajaei Shahr prison, was recently hospitalised for kidney problems.
The human rights lawyer had already begun serving out a previous two-year sentence. The latest court ruling means that he will be facing eight years behind bars.
A 28-year-old woman in Osaka has been arrested for illegally disposing of the body of her newborn daughter last October, police said Friday.
The woman, who has been named as Tomoko Takiguchi, is accused of disposing of the body of her daughter shortly after birth, NTV reported. According to police, the body of a month-old baby girl was found in an irrigation channel near Takiguchi’s former Kashiwara home last Oct 13. An autopsy revealed that the child had died of suffocation. DNA tests later showed the child to be Takiguchi’s daughter.
According to neighbors, Takiguchi appeared to be pregnant in August of last year, but was not seen in public with the child after giving birth, NTV reported. Takiguchi was arrested on Thursday and questioned by police about the circumstances in which her daughter died.
Police were quoted by local media as saying that Takiguchi denies disposing of her daughter’s body, telling investigators that she nursed her daughter for a week and then the child was kidnapped. Police said no kidnapping was reported.
Three thousand Iranian women being trained as ninja warriors say they will
use their martial arts skills to defend the country if necessary.
Scores of black-clad female "ninja" fighters whose ages range from 5 to 56
are just a handful of 3,000 women in Iran who are being trained
as lethal warriors at a school in Tehran.
"We train women to have strength and ability. We have to do everything in our
power to protect our homeland," said Akbar Faraji, who runs the school.
One of the fighters who has been training for over 13 years said, "Our aim is
for Iranian women to be strengthened and if a problem arises, we will definitely
declare our readiness to defend our Islamic homeland."
Iran has proclaimed advances in nuclear technology, including new centrifuges
able to enrich uranium, a move that has heightened its confrontation with the
West over suspicions it is planning to make nuclear weapons.
On Friday, the Home Secretary, William Hague told The Telegraph that Iran's
pursuit of weapons of mass destruction could trigger a “new Cold War.”
Beijing: A 17-year-old son of a senior Chinese military General was formally charged on Sunday in a gang-rape case.
Li Tianyi, the son of Mr Li Shuangjiang, dean of the music department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, was formally charged by the Beijing police in the gang-rape case, state-run Close Circuit Television (CCTV) reported.
Li Tianyi was arrested along with four others on Wednesday after a woman accused them of raping her.
The woman filed a report on February 19, saying she had been drinking with Li Tianyi and others at a bar in Haidian after which they went to a hotel where they raped her.
Li Shuangjiang, 74, built his reputation in past decades by singing popular patriotic songs.
It is not the first time that junior Li has gotten in trouble.
In September 2011, Li Tianyi, then 15-year-old, was caught driving a BMW without a driving license or car plate after he viciously attacked a couple following a traffic dispute.
The teenager was kept at a juvenile camp for one-year of re-education, but let off after six months raising questions in the media on how children of the influential people were being treated differently.
While highlighting the case, the state-run channel also narrated the increasing number of incidents involving the children of rich and influential people breaking law and attempting to subvert the rules
Palestinian who died in Israeli jail 'was tortured'
A Palestinian prisoner who died in an Israeli jail was tortured to death, a
Palestinian official has claimed, dismissing Israeli accounts of an apparent
heart attack.
Palestinians take cover during
clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, following the death
of Arafat JaradatPhoto:
AP
9:00PM GMT 24 Feb 2013
Arafat Jaradat's autopsy showed torture resulting
from fractures in his body and skull while his heart was in good condition, said
Issa Qaraqaa, the minister in charge of prisoner affairs, citing a Palestinian doctor who took
part in the autopsy.
"These results prove Israel killed him," Mr Qaraqaa told a news conference.
Jaradat died on Saturday in an Israeli jail from what prison authorities
initially said appeared to have been a heart attack.
The 30-year-old man from Sair near Hebron in the West Bank was arrested last
Monday for alleged involvement in a November 2012 stone-throwing incident which
injured an Israeli, according to Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence
service.
Palestinians said he was a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed
wing of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.
Jaradat's body was transferred to a hospital in Hebron late on Sunday after
an autopsy at Israel's national forensic institute near Tel Aviv in which the
Palestinian doctor participated.
He was to be buried at noon on Monday.
An Israeli police spokesman had no comment on the autopsy results or
investigation into Jaradat's death, and would only say that "the subject is
still under examination."
Photo credit: from the Facebook page of Sarmad Alladin
London: The death of 18-year-old student from Hyderabad has led to university authorities warning students against taking unprescribed drugs as they could prove "lethal". Reports say that Sarmad Alladin died after apparently taking bodybuilding pills.
Alladin was living in university accommodation in Surrey, while attending the University of Creative Arts. He was taken to the hospital in the early hours of the morning on February 13 and was declared dead. Newspaper reports say that Sarmad Alladin died after taking bodybuilding pills.
His father arrived in the UK on Friday, his mother had reached earlier. As they and his friends deal with the tragedy, a very personal loss, tributes have been pouring in on the social networking site Facebook.
Alladin, was the son of a Hyderabad-based millionaire, it has been reported. His last post on Facebook before he died was about the banned pills Dinitrophenol (DNP). He had earlier posted pictures that showed him flexing his muscles.
"Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained," a statement from the police said.
A friend of the family told NDTV that the parents were still very shocked and shaken. They are now awaiting the post-mortem report.
For Manjit Thandi, a school teacher who taught the boy a few years ago this was devastating news. Ms Thandi taught Sarmad when he first arrived in the UK and has fond memories of the time he was in her class.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police on Saturday found the black SUV used as a getaway car in a pre-dawn shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper in a Maserati and two people in a taxi on the Las Vegas Strip, and named a 26-year-old man as the prime suspect.
Ammar Harris was being sought in connection with the shooting and six-vehicle chain-reaction carnage Thursday on the neon-lit boulevard near the Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Bally's and Flamingo resorts, police said.
"His location is unknown," police Capt. Chris Jones said of Harris, who sometimes goes by the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris. Police say he has been arrested for working as a pimp.
Police released a photo that was taken when Harris was arrested last year on pandering, kidnapping, sexual assault and coercion charges. The disposition of that case was not immediately known.
The photo shows Harris with tattoos on his right cheek and words on his neck above an image that appeared to depict an owl with blackened eyes. Jones warned that Harris should be considered armed and dangerous.
