Iran News ( Killed Human rights Activists - Spouse and daughter arrested and told to shut up )

Iran: Spouse and daughter slain political prisoner arrested

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NCRI - The agents of Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested spouse and daughter of slain political prisoner Mansour Radpour and transferred them to MOIS branch in Karaj on February 26.
Political prisoner Mansour Radpour, an activist of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), 44, father of two, was slain on May 21 in Gohardasht prison, after enduring five years detention in the mullahs’ dungeons and standing up against all sorts of tortures and pressures in order to make forced confessions.

A few months after travelling to Ashraf, Mansour Radpour was arrested on May 17, 2007 for filming a workers’ protest in Iran. He was put under pressure and torture. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment for propaganda against the regime and supporting the PMOI, which subsequently was increased to 8 years imprisonment after making further bogus charges against him.
Mrs. Radpour had already been arrested in 2007 two weeks after her husband’s death. The henchmen threatened her with physical and psychological torture to stay silent over killing of her husband by mullahs’ henchmen in prison.
Over the past month, a large number of members families PMOI supporters and Camp Liberty residents have been arrested by MOIS including Mrs. Akram Sanjari and her 15 year old son, Milad Misagh nejad, Mrs. Dina Karami and her 16 year old son, Hanif, Hassan Sadeghi, his wife Fatemeh Mossana and her 17 year old son, Nima, Asef Rezaian, 19, son of Teymour Rezaian, a political prisoner of the 80’s.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 3, 2012

Colombia ( Government gets ready to arrest coffee strike leaders )

Colombian authorities prepare ‘arrest warrants’ for coffee strike leaders

Wednesday, 06 March 2013 11:22 Olle Ohlsen Pettersson

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Colombia's prosecutor general is preparing arrest warrants for the leaders of the ongoing coffee strike in the south-central Huila department, a local ombudsman told Colombia Reports Wednesday.
"The Prosecutor General is preparing arrest warrants to capture the leaders of the strike," said the ombudsman of Neiva (capital of Huila) Jesus Elias Meneses.
According to the ombudsman, riot police continued to commit "arbitrary acts" against protestors in various municipalities across the department. Meneses said that police have indiscriminately lobbed tear gas grenades and restricted the protestors' right to free movement.
"We know they sent a big squadron [to Garzon, Huila]...to evict them... yesterday [Tuesday] they continued throwing [tear] gas...and today they are throwing gas from helicopters and continue to intimidate the protestors," said the ombudsman.
Demonstrators were on their way back to Neiva from a Tuesday protest, said Meneses, when police arbitrarily stopped them "for almost an hour in the middle of the road."

MORE: 'Colombia Police using excessive force against striking coffee workers'

The coffee strikes in Huila and other southern departments have been marred by violence. Several videos showing what appears to be excessive police force have been shared on several social media websites.

MORE: Colombians turn to Facebook to share painful, violent side of coffee strike

Colombia's prosecutor general on Wednesday ordered investigations into 70 alleged "disturbances" committed by protestors at various times during the coffee strike. According to preliminary reports, 30 formal investigations had been opened in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Huila, Caldas, Tolima and Valle del Cauca. One person had already been apprehended Wednesday for "obstructing public roads."
Meanwhile, Meneses said that his office was getting ready to receive a slew of complaints from strikers about the tactics employed by riot police.
"We are [getting ready] to begin receiving complaints and formal denunciations with video material [from demonstrators]," he said.
Approximately 90,000 coffee farmers have been protesting since February 25 in departments all across the country over what they perceive is a lack of financial support from the government during this tough time for one of Colombia's iconic industries. On numerous occasions, the government expressed an eagerness to sit down with the protestors to iron out an agreement, but claimed that a prerequisite to do so was that the strikers had to stop blocking roads. However, as of Wednesday afternoon, a government envoy led by vice president Angelino Garzon, was meeting with protest leaders in the central Risaralda department.
"Today, there has to be a solution to the coffee strike," said the Vice President.

U.S Drones used on U.S citizens ( Eric Holder and Obama Give Green Light )

Holder: Obama could order lethal force in U.S.

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President Barack Obama could order the use of deadly force against an American inside the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released Tuesday.
Paul and other senators had asked various administration officials whether deadly drones strikes like the ones the U.S. carries out in Pakistan, Yemen and other foreign countries could ever be used in the U.S. Paul said he would seek to block the confirmation of John Brennan as Central Intelligence Agency director if the question was not answered. (Brennan's nomination was endorsed by the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday afternoon in a 12-3 vote.)
In the one-page letter dated Monday, Holder said: "The U.S. government has not carried out drone strikes in the United States and has no intention of doing so." The attorney general argued that law enforcement is best suited to resolve such threats "in this country."
However, Holder says that in situations akin to the 1941 assault on Pearl Harbor or the September 11, 2001 attacks, the president might have to order the use of deadly force in the U.S.
"The question you have posed is entirely hypothetical, unlikely to occur, and one we hope no President will ever have to confront," Holder wrote. "It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States. For example, the President could concievably have no choice but to authorize the military to use such force if necessary to protect the homeland in the circumstances of a catastrophic attack like the ones suffered on December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001."
Paul said in a statement that he was deeply disturbed by Holder's views.
"The U.S. Attorney General’s refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil is more than frightening – it is an affront the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans,” Paul said.
(WATCH: Rand Paul: Drone strike during dinner?)
Police, of course, regularly and lawfully use deadly force inside the U.S. in cases where criminals are presenting a imminent threat to others. They can also use lethal force under the so-called "fleeing felon" rule to stop a dangerous individuals.
However, the Obama Administration has claimed authority to use armed drones abroad under a more relaxed standard of imminence, embracing situations where an individual has organized terrorist attacks in the past and has not renounced such activity. In addition, the administration has carried out so-called "signature strikes," where a group of suspected terrorists is attacked based on their pattern of activity even though the U.S. lacks specific intelligence about their identities

Iran News ( Human Rights reporters released on bail )

Journalists Nasrin Takhayori, Saba Azarpeik and Sasan Aghayee released

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Moments ago another 3 journalists, Nasrin Takhoyori, Saba Azarpeik and Sasan Aghayee were released on bail.

According to CHRR, Nasrin Takhayori, editor of the social affairs section of Etemad newspaper and Sasan Aghayee, editor of the Saturday supplement section of this newspaper were detained on January 28th when security officials conducted a simultaneous raid on the offices of 5 media outlets in Tehran. Saba Azarpeik, a former reporter for Etemad newspaper and staff at Baztab Emrooz website was arrested at the same time while at her home.

Of the 19 journalists detained during the wave of arrests aimed at cracking down on the press, 17 have now been released on bail - Motehareh Shafiee, Ali Dehghan, Javad Daliri, Hossein Yaghchi, Fatemeh Sagharchi, Keyvan Mehregan, Emily Amrayee, Narges Joudaki, Reyhaneh Tabatabai, Akbar Montajebi, Pourya Alemi, Milad Fadai Asl, Soleiman Mohammadi, Pejman Mousavi, Nasrin Takhayori, Sasan Aghaee and Saba Azarpeik.

Two journalists, Ehsan Mazandarani and Mohammad Javad Rouh remain in custody. Ehsan Mazandarani, reporter at Etemad was arrested on February 20th and Mohammad Javad Rouh who in the past years worked at the banned newspapers Norouz and Yas and also at ILNA news was detained on March 2nd across from the offices of the weekly, Aseman. Both journalists were transferred to Evin prison

Oklahoma ( Woman arrested for drug charges- and Gun hidden in her vagina ) OMG

Perp Had Loaded Revolver In Her Vagina

Handgun was found inside Oklahoman during strip search

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MARCH 6--An Oklahoma woman arrested Monday on drug charges had a loaded handgun hidden in her vagina, according to police.
The weapon was discovered during a search of Christie Dawn Harris, 28, by a female officer with the Ada Police Department. According to a police report, the cop spotted the handle of the five-shot revolver "sticking out from" inside Harris, who is seen at right.
In a less shocking find, investigators also discovered plastic baggies containing methamphetamine lodged in the crack of Harris’s buttocks.
The Freedom Arms .22-caliber handgun was loaded with three live rounds and one spent shell, cops reported. As to where the weapon was recovered, the police report noted, “gun located in suspect vagina.”
At around 3:45 AM Monday, cops spotted Harris and another woman, Jennifer Delancy, inside a vehicle parked outside a closed restaurant. The women were in the front of the vehicle and “both seats were laid all the way back.” Asked by a cop if the car contained weapons or drugs, Harris, who was behind the wheel, answered that “she did not think there was anything.”
But when a drug dog alerted to both the driver and passenger sides of the Toyota Yaris, cops searched the vehicle and found meth, drug paraphernalia, a pistol, and a loaded magazine. Harris and Delancy were then arrested.
While being transported to jail, Harris “stated several times that she needed to go to the bathroom.”
At the lockup, Harris was directed to change out of her clothes into “jail clothing.” When directed to lower her underwear so that a female cop could check for contraband, Harris “advised that she was on her period and did not want to.”
Harris eventually complied with the cop’s order. “I observed at that time a wooden and metal item sticking out from her vagina area,” reported Officer Kathy Unbewust, who added that she “pulled the item from her vagina, and found it to be a 5 shot revolver with rounds in the chamber.”
As seen above, the police report includes a photo of the handgun seized from Harris, who is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on felony weapons and narcotics charges. (4 pages)

Iran News ( Mass Protests - Farmers protest over water shortages )

IRGC’s ex-chief warns about mass protests across Iran

 

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Published on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 10:04

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NCRI - The former head of Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guard has warned that recent farmers' protests over water shortages could trigger a massive social uprising that could threaten the stability of the regime.
The report on the website of ex-IRGC chief Mohsen Rezaie also exposes rifts within the ruling dictatorship and escalation of infighting.

His warning comes after armed security forces were sent to Isfahan to crush a rebellion by hundreds of farmers angry at Revolutionary Guards for building dams in the Zayande-Rud River and cutting off their water supply.
Rezaie has now written on his website: "The events that occurred in Isfahan have proved the accuracy of warnings from experts over the consequences of economic pressures.
"The events at Isfahan happened because of the agricultural water shortages being endured by farmers. Although this could be due by drought and Ahmadinejad's bad decision-making, the bigger picture also shows the explosive nature of a population suffering economically.
"Ahmadinejad’s trip to the province of Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari and changing the Zayande-Rud river water division system are both to blame for the widespread discontent among Isfahan farmers.
"This discontent has lead to the protests and the destruction of Isfahan’s water delivery system.
"As the security forces rushed to the scene, the protest escalated and several buses were set on fire and rubber bullets were fired, although according to the head of the security forces there were no deaths but some were injured.
"In addition to destruction of the water pipes and water delivery system to the cities of Yazd and others, the pictures and videos of burned buses show the extent of the damage was greater than the critical days of 2009 in Tehran.
"And this was all caused by protesters who were not political activists or intellectuals, and do not have access to satellites and social networks.
"The message from Isfahan must be that severe economic problems could cause similar social unrest and widespread discontent anywhere else in the country."

London ( Indian girl 12 yrs old stunned everyone - 162 on her IQ Test -Higher than Einstein )

Test proves 12-year-old Indian girl has higher IQ than Einstein

Press Trust of India | Updated: March 05, 2013 15:57 IST

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London: A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in UK has stunned everyone after she scored an incredible 162 on her IQ test - even higher than Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Neha Ramu, daughter of an Indian doctor couple, achieved a score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test - the highest score possible for her age.

The score puts her in the top one per cent of brightest people in the UK and means she is more intelligent than physicist Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and scientist Albert Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.

"Neha scored 162 on the Cattell IIIB test, putting her within the top one per cent of people in the country," a spokesman for British Mensa said.

Neha's parents lived in India before moving to Britain when their daughter was seven, 'The Telegraph' reported.

Neha had always performed well at school, but it was only when she took an entrance exam for her school, achieving a perfect score of 280/280, that they realised her potential.

She took the test for Mensa, a society for people with high IQs, two years later, and achieved the maximum possible score for someone aged under 18.

"At first I did not really realise what she was capable of as she wasn't being stretched at school and when she joined primary school in the UK. We didn't really understand the system here," her mother Jayashree said.

"I am so proud of her. Although she's being doing well at these kind of tests for sometime now. This is just marvellous.

I can't express the feeling," she said.

Neha plans to follow her parents' footsteps into a career in medicine. She has already set her sight on a place at Harvard after taking her SATs - the American equivalent of A-levels - and achieved a score of 740 out of 800 in a test designed for 18-year-olds.

A devoted Harry Potter fan and keen swimmer, Neha admitted to have found the Mensa test "quite hard".

"I'm really, really happy because I found the test quite hard and I wasn't really holding out much hope that I'd be a member of Mensa," she said.

"We might have a little party or something sometime soon to celebrate. I haven't told my friends yet but I've told some of my family and they are all very happy for me," said Neha.

Einstein never took an IQ test as none of the modern intelligence tests existed when he was alive, but experts believe he had an IQ of around 160.