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Iranian people defy rulers, celebrate Fire Festival

 

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Published on Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:51

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NCRI – The people across Iran have defied the security forces and used the annual Fire Festival to express their anger at the tyrannical regime.
In cities across the country, youth ignored threats of arrest and prison and lit fires and set off home-made explosives in protest at the ruling mullahs.
Iran regime's leaders had feared people would use the festival to demonstrate against their dictatorship.
In Tehran, police tried but failed to prevent young people lighting fires and exploding hand-made bombs and firecrackers. In the north of the city, youths attacked the Saderat bank.
In Lavasan district of Tehran, police were too concerned for their own safety to tackle youths lighting bonfires in the street.
And in one district of Shiraz, people chanted, 'Damn high prices, Down with mullahs' and even set ablaze a police car in the city’'s Chamran Street.
In Zanjan, youth defied the police and army by setting off fireworks. In Karaj, SSF and plain clothes agents were too terrified to break up gatherings, INLA reported.
Also, in the Kian Pars district of Ahwaz, the SSF were unable to disperse large crowds, while in Sanandaj, the mullahs deployed an anti-riot unit and established an unofficial martial law to regain control of the city.
During the festival - which dates back to the 7th Century - Iranians traditionally celebrate by lighting bonfires and jumping through the flames.
In recent years, security forces have been cracking down on celebration up to two months before it begins by banning firecrackers, sparklers, rockets and even home-made grenades.

Iran News ( Students get 6 yrs in prison - For saying bad comments about Iran ) OMG

Iran: Student sentenced to six year imprisonment for anti-regime activities

 

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Published on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:54

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NCRI - The Iranian regime’s judiciary in city of Sarab, northwest of Iran, has sentenced a student to six years imprisonment on charges of distributing propaganda against the regime.
Babak Baqaii, a student in Tabriz University, was arrested on July 29 of this year in his father's house without an arrest warrant. He was then temporarily had been released on a 500 million Toman bail.

Iran News ( Female human rights reporter granted furlough from prison ) Home for holidays

Nasim Soltan Beigi granted furlough on bail for the Nowruz holidays

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – On Monday March 18, journalist and former student activist Nasim Soltan Beigi was granted furlough and released from prison on bail.

According to CHRR, Nasim Soltan Beigi who has had 2 prior arrests, has worked at several media outlets including Shargh and Arman. On November 30, 2010, Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court handed this student activist and journalist a 6-year prison sentence; 3 years on the charge of “acting against national security,” one year for “propaganda against the regime,” and a 2-year suspended term stemming from a prior arrest in 2006. Soltan Beigi appealed this ruling and it was sent to the Appeals Court.

Nasim Soltan Beigi was a leftist student who was among students arrested in a widespread crackdown on student activists in November 2007. She spent 56 days behind bars in ward 209 of Evin prison before being released on bail. She had previously been arrested on June 12, 2006 at a rally of women activists and at that time was handed a 2-year suspended prison sentence.

Mexico Sinaloa ( City police and two mexican soldiers clash - The soldiers are killed )

Municipal Police and Soldiers Clash; Two Soldiers Dead

Monday, March 18, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterValorxTruth

Mazatlan, Sinaloa—Dozens of gunshot wounds triggered the deaths of two Mexican Army soldiers after a pursuit and a shootout by Municipal Police in different avenues in the city.

It was around 01:40 hours on Monday when members of the Municipal Police observed a gray Dodge Caravan with license plates VND 1254 at the intersection of the avenue Clouthier and Colosio.

According to their information, they ordered the van to stop, which the occupants in the van ignored, which started a pursuit and ended in a shootout which started by the avenue Robles Quinteros in the colony Ramón F Iturbe and ended in the colony 12 de Mayo at the crossroads of Gabriel Leyva and Obrero Mundialista Street.

Another story says that when a municipal patrol arrived at the site, the soldiers shot at them and didn’t identify themselves. The police then pursued them by the avenue Munich. Next by the Bypass Colosio Murrieta to then continue along the underpass of Café El Marino and then continued along the avenue Gabriel Leyva.

At the height of the street Obrero Mundialista, located in the colony 12 de Mayo, the soldiers were shot down and then crashed head-on against a liquor store where their journey ended. The patrol car received various gunshots at the drivers windshield. There were no police casualties.

Iran News ( Computer software seller Arrested - Sales evading tool cyber world ) Did he vanish to ?

Iranian regime arrests VPN software seller

 

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Published on Monday, 18 March 2013 22:38

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NCRI - The Iranian regime has arrested one seller of a software tool that is used for evading internet filtering.
The commander of Iranian regime’s cyberpolice in northern province of Zanjan said “Following efforts by the police, the seller was identified, digital documents were collected and the order for arrest was issued.”
He added that “the seller was arrested and the accused confessed after facing the documents,” state-run news agency Fars reported on Monday.
Many Iranians citizens evade the filter through use of "Virtual Private Network". Using the technology, surfers in Iran could sign in to a server in the United States for example and pretend that they are actually located in the US and not Iran. This way they circumvent the Iranian government’s installed filters and Iran’s information agents will not easily know which websites they visited.

The Iranian regime authorities have blocked the use of software tools that people use to evade Iranian regime's Internet filtering.
Iranian regime has adopted one of the world's most substantial Internet censorship regimes. Iran under mullahs' rule is among a small group of states with the most sophisticated filtering systems purchased from Western countries

Western Mexico ( 6 yr old and 1 yr old shot and killed with mom and dad ) Outrage

Four Members of Family Murdered in Western Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Four members of a family, including two children, were shot and burned at a ranch in Jalisco, a state in western Mexico, officials said.

Municipal police officers put out a fire Friday night burning at a house located on the ranch, Huejuquilla el Alto Mayor Martin Madera said.

The ranch is about seven kilometers (4.3 miles) from Huejuquilla el Alto, Madera said.

Officers also found two SUVs burning on the property, the mayor said.

Investigators discovered the bullet-riddled and charred bodies on Saturday of a woman, a man, a 6-year-old boy and a 1-year-old boy in the smoldering wreckage of one of the SUVs.

The victims were all members of the same family, Madera said.

The victims, according to investigators, were shot and then placed in the vehicle, which was torched along with the other SUV and the ranch house, the mayor said.

“It looks like the prosecutors have leads, but we do not know anything else,” Madera said.

Mexico City ( 20 thugs arrested by Citizens in mexico released ) Attorney General

Prosecutors Release 20 of 21 Arrested by Community Police in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Twenty of the 21 suspects detained by community police members in Buenavista Tomatlan, a city in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, and handed over to authorities have been released, the Attorney General’s Office said.

Investigators found no evidence that the suspects were involved in drug trafficking or served as lookouts for smugglers, the AG’s office said.

One suspect is being held in custody because investigators found he had a criminal record in the United States and plan to hand him over to U.S. authorities, the AG’s office said.

The community police force turned the 21 suspects over to prosecutors last Wednesday.

The suspects were detained in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, a town also known as “La Ruana” and located in Michoacan’s Tierra Caliente region, an area that became a marijuana growing center in the 1970s.