Mexico ( Director of Piedras Negras Prison -Executed -Shot to death )

Director of Piedras Negras Prison Executed

Thursday, April 18, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterChivis

Borderland Beat

Wednesday night, Jose Antonio Castillo Juarez, director of the Piedras Negras Social Reinsertion Center (CERESO in Spanish), was killed . Authorities confirmed that armed men intercepted him while he was driving.

According to the information given by the Attorney General of Justice of the State, an investigation has begun for the homicide of Castillo Juarez, an engineer, with no previous experience working in the penitentiary system, yet his task was to direct C-4 in this border city.

The murder occurred around 7:47 pm on state road 2, km 3, said the attorney general, when the director of CERESO was travelling aboard a Tsuru vehicle with license plates of Coahuila, when he was intercepted by the armed men.

The vehicle of the penitentiary director received multiple gun shots and at the time of the discovery it was found upside-down with the tires facing up. Personnel of expert services removed from the crime scene several bullet shells from assault rifles known as the goat horn.

Although Engineer Castillo Juarez activated, through the radio, a Code red situation that alerted the safety forces of this border town, at the time of trying to locate him through the same system , he did not respond to the radio operator of emergency system.

It was minutes later that the agents of the Investigation Police found his body inside the demolished and bullet ridden vehicle. His body was transferred to Forensic Medical Service for the autopsy required by state law.

Boston Police ( MIT officer Executed by Boston bomber brothers )

Sean Collier, then a civilian at the Somerville Police Department, where he worked in information technology for five years, had dreamed of becoming a police officer. So he left last year to become a patrol officer at MIT, but his name still floated to the top of the list for consideration as a cop in Somerville.
When his former colleagues there heard that he had been killed in a shootout Thursday night with the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, they were "devastated."
"All the girls and dispatchers can't stop crying," Lt. William Rymill of the Somerville Police said. "It's a real shock to us. He was not liked, he was loved.
"We have lost a member of the family," he added.
Collier, 26, was found in his car at about 10:20 p.m. Thursday night at the corner of Vassar Street and Main Street in Cambridge, on the MIT campus, authorities said. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, where he was pronounced dead.

Iran News ( 5 prisoners Executed in Iran Today- Two rapists-one drug dealer )

Five Prisoners Executed In Iran Today

Wednesday 17 April 2013

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Iran Human Rights, April 17: Five prisoners were hanged in three different Iranian prisons today, Wednesday April 17.
One prisoner hanged in the prison of Zarand (Southeastern Iran):
According to the Iranian state media one prisoner was hanged in the prison of Zarand (Kerman Province, southeastern Iran) Wednesday morning. The prisoner who was not identified by name was a 41 year old man convicted of trafficking of 1875 grams of heroin said the report.
Two prisoners hanged in the prison of Mashhad:
According to the Iranian state broadcasting two prisoners were hanged in the prison of Mashhad (northeastern Iran) early this morning. The prisoners were identified as "a 21 year old worker" and "a 41 year old man" and convicted of rape in two different cases.
Two prisoners were hanged in the prison fa Rajai Shahr in Karaj (west of Tehran):
According to reliable sources that Iran Human Rights (IHR) has been in contact with, two prisoners were hanged in the Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj early this morning, April 17. One of the prisoners was identified as "Hossein Cheflaki", born in 1988 (1367 Iranian Calendar), arrested in 2007 (1386) charged with murder. The other prisoner whose identity is not certain*, was also chraged with murder. The executions were not reported by the official Iranian sources. According to IHR’s annual report on the death penalty in 2012, there were at least 113 un-announced executions in the prisons of Tehran /Karaj area.
Yesterday, 9 prisoners were hanged in Shiraz (southern Iran). Six of the executions were carried out publicly (Picture above).

Mexico ( 4 killed in Mexico - three women and a man ) Drug wars

Gunmen Kill 4 in Northern Mexico

MONTERREY, Mexico – Gunmen killed three women and a man in Monterrey, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, in incidents likely linked to drug trafficking, officials said Thursday.

The women were gunned down Wednesday night outside a house in the San Bernabe section of Monterrey, a Nuevo Leon Attorney General’s Office spokesman told Efe.

The gunmen arrived at the house in a rented vehicle and opened fire on the victims, who ranged in age from 22 to 38, the AG’s office spokesman said.

One of the women had been involved romantically with a member of a drug gang and that may have been the motive for the killings, the AG’s office spokesman said.

The young woman was the target and “the other two women were not involved in what had happened,” the official said.

Police cordoned off the area and Nuevo Leon State Investigations Agency, or AEI, personnel gathered evidence at the crime scene, where several 9 mm bullet casings were scattered on the ground.

The body of a man, meanwhile, was dumped in a street in Monterrey’s southern Buenos Aires district early Thursday, an Efe reporter confirmed at the scene.

The body showed signs of torture and was lying next to a chain and padlock that were apparently going to be used to hang the cadaver from a bridge, a common practice among the drug cartels that operate in northern Mexico.

Earlier this week, nine bullet-riddled bodies were found on the banks of the La Silla River in Juarez, a city in Nuevo Leon.

The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon in the Reforma district of Juarez.

Nuevo Leon, one of Mexico’s most violent states, is the scene of a turf war between the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas.

After several years on the payroll of the Gulf cartel, Los Zetas, considered Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, went into the drug business on their own account and now control several lucrative territories.

The criminal organizations have been fighting for control of smuggling routes into the United States since 2010.

The war on drugs launched by former President Felipe Calderon, who was in office from 2006 to 2012, left about 70,000 people dead, or an average of 32 per day, in Mexico, officials say. EFE

Boston Bomber ( Dzhokhar A. Tsanaev -Russian - 19 yr old - Police searching for him)

BOSTON—A late-night police chase and shootout has left one marathon bombing suspect dead and another on the run, police here said, as residents of the still-grieving city were ordered by officials to "shelter in place" while the manhunt continues. One police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded during the violent spree.


Authorities identified the surviving Boston bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., and said that the suspects were brothers. The second bombing suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, according to NBC News, who was found with an IED on his body. The brothers' family is originally from Chechnya, a volatile southern Russian republic. Photographer Johannes Hirn took this photo essay of the older brother, a boxer. The captions suggest Tsarnaev came to America as a

 child with his family as refugees after fleeing the war-torn part of Russia. Dhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic and pro-Chechnyan independence sites on what appears to be his social media page.
The suspects' uncle told the local CBS News station that the pair had lived in the country since 2002. The uncle, when told that one of his nephews was killed, replied that he deserved it. “He deserved his. He absolutely deserved his,” Ruslan Tsarni said. “They do not deserve to live on this earth.”

Tsarni said he learned his nephews were suspects by reading a Russian language news source. "Since these people do have association to me by blood, I say they're barbarians," he added.

Boston bombers ( Shoot -out with bombing suspects - one captured - suspects armed with grenades )

BOSTON—A late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one Boston Marathon bombing suspect being captured here, the Boston Globe reports. Meanwhile, an intense manhunt is underway for a second suspect in the terror case.
Federal agents swarmed neighboring Watertown after local police were involved in a car chase and shootout with at least two suspects. During the pursuit, officers could be heard on police radio traffic describing the suspects as having grenades and other explosives.

Authorities identified the surviving Boston bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., and said that the suspects were brothers

One suspect reportedly escaped capture, and another was shot by police and taken to a local hospital. Another man was seen sprawled on the ground in footage shown on WHDH-TV.
The FBI has not confirmed a connection between the events in Watertown to the twin explosions that killed 3 people and injured 170 others at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But according to an alert sent issued to fellow officers, the suspect who remained at large was referred to as the "one with the white hat" seen in the photos released by the bureau on Thursday.
The suspect, described on scanner traffic as a "white male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with black curly hair, possibly with an assault rifle and explosives," as police in Watertown, Newton, Brighton and Cambridge were put on high alert.
Worried residents in Watertown, a suburb about 10 miles from downtown Boston, were ordered to stay indoors and turn off their cell phones out of fear that they could trigger improvised explosive devices.
Dozens of police officers, many of them off-duty, searched backyards in search of the second suspect, and a police perimeter of several blocks was established. K9 units and SWAT teams searched homes on Spruce Street as officers searched an SUV the suspects had abandoned.
The Watertown shootout occurred after a shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late Thursday. An MIT police officer was shot and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, local reports said. The campus was placed on lockdown for several hours, and students were told to remain indoors.
Shortly before 2 a.m., MIT issued a statement on its website saying that the suspect "in this evening's shooting is no longer on campus. It is now safe to resume normal activities. Please remain vigilant in the coming hours."

Iran News ( Human Rights reporter granted prison release )

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17 April 2013

Nasim Soltan Beigi, journalist and student activist, granted prison release

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Journalist and former student activist Nasim Soltan Beigi who was on furlough for 25 days, was granted a pardon on April 11th when she went back to prison intending to serve the remainder of her prison term.

According to CHRR, imprisoned journalist Nasim Soltan Beigi was granted furlough for Nowruz on orders of judicial authorities on Monday March 18th. Soltan Beigi who has two previous arrests has worked for various news agencies including Shargh and Arman.

On November 30, 2010, Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court handed the journalist and former student activist 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 those 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.