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Saturday, May 4, 2013
CARACAS ( Venezuelan Journalist Killed in Robbery - Johnny Gonzalez -Sports writer )
Venezuelan Journalist Killed in Robbery
CARACAS – Venezuelan sportswriter Jhonny
Gonzalez was shot and killed in the wee hours Friday while leaving the building
where the sports daily Lider has its headquarters, apparently for resisting a
robbery, the publication said.
Lider said on its Web site that Gonzalez was killed around 2:00 a.m. when leaving to work a night shift at the Cadena Capriles building in downtown Caracas.
Several individuals in a car and on a motorcycle apparently intercepted the journalist with intention to rob him and fired three shots. Gonzalez died in the car.
Journalists do not escape the situation of violence in Venezuela, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the region with 55 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants.
The Public Space organization denounced a 50 percent increase in cases of attacks on freedom of expression in Venezuela so far this year, and a 20 percent increase in 2012 over 2011
CARACAS – Venezuelan sportswriter Jhonny
Gonzalez was shot and killed in the wee hours Friday while leaving the building
where the sports daily Lider has its headquarters, apparently for resisting a
robbery, the publication said.Lider said on its Web site that Gonzalez was killed around 2:00 a.m. when leaving to work a night shift at the Cadena Capriles building in downtown Caracas.
Several individuals in a car and on a motorcycle apparently intercepted the journalist with intention to rob him and fired three shots. Gonzalez died in the car.
Journalists do not escape the situation of violence in Venezuela, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the region with 55 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants.
The Public Space organization denounced a 50 percent increase in cases of attacks on freedom of expression in Venezuela so far this year, and a 20 percent increase in 2012 over 2011
Friday, May 3, 2013
Mexico ( Attacks on Journalists Remain on the Rise in Mexico- 80 killed since 2000)
Attacks on Journalists Remain on the Rise in
Mexico
The watchdog group Article 19 documented 50 attacks on individual journalists and three assaults on media outlets in the first quarter of 2013
MEXICO CITY –
Aggression against the news media in Mexico rose 20 percent in the first three
months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, the watchdog group
Article 19 said Friday.
The organization documented 50 attacks on individual journalists and three assaults on media outlets in the first quarter of 2013, Article 19 spokesman Omar Rabago told Efe on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
One news professional went missing during the period and remains unaccounted for, while another, Jaime Guadalupe Gonzalez, was murdered on March 3, Rabago said.
“Nothing has changed,” he said. “In reality, we are still waiting for the Mexican state in this new administration to comply with what it promised,” the activist said, referring to the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took office Dec. 1.
More than 80 journalists have been slain in Mexico since 2000, according to figures from the country’s independent National Human Rights Commission.
Article 19, applying the narrower definition of “a clear link between the journalistic work and the murder,” puts the number at 73.
Mexico remains one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, with 16 reporters “disappeared” over the last decade and 46 bombings and shootings at media outlets, the group says.
The Mexican security forces have been responsible for a third of the documented instances of aggression against news gatherers, Article 19 says.
Broadcast journalist Jose Gerardo Padilla Blanquet went missing on April 30 in Saltillo, the northern city where newspaper photographer Daniel Alejandro Martinez was murdered six days earlier, the organization noted. EFE
The watchdog group Article 19 documented 50 attacks on individual journalists and three assaults on media outlets in the first quarter of 2013
MEXICO CITY –
Aggression against the news media in Mexico rose 20 percent in the first three
months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, the watchdog group
Article 19 said Friday.The organization documented 50 attacks on individual journalists and three assaults on media outlets in the first quarter of 2013, Article 19 spokesman Omar Rabago told Efe on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
One news professional went missing during the period and remains unaccounted for, while another, Jaime Guadalupe Gonzalez, was murdered on March 3, Rabago said.
“Nothing has changed,” he said. “In reality, we are still waiting for the Mexican state in this new administration to comply with what it promised,” the activist said, referring to the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took office Dec. 1.
More than 80 journalists have been slain in Mexico since 2000, according to figures from the country’s independent National Human Rights Commission.
Article 19, applying the narrower definition of “a clear link between the journalistic work and the murder,” puts the number at 73.
Mexico remains one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, with 16 reporters “disappeared” over the last decade and 46 bombings and shootings at media outlets, the group says.
The Mexican security forces have been responsible for a third of the documented instances of aggression against news gatherers, Article 19 says.
Broadcast journalist Jose Gerardo Padilla Blanquet went missing on April 30 in Saltillo, the northern city where newspaper photographer Daniel Alejandro Martinez was murdered six days earlier, the organization noted. EFE
Iran News ( Young man Lashed in public - Looks like braveheart movie ) Un-real
Iran: Man lashed in public in Khash
- Details
- Published on Friday, 03 May 2013 07:08
NCRI - A young man has been lashed in public in the city of Khash, in southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan Province,.This inhumane measure was opposed by furious people.
The lashing took place in end of April.
Photo: The Iranian regime’s henchmen in city of Sabzevar lashed a man in public on January 16, 2013
The lashing took place in end of April.
Photo: The Iranian regime’s henchmen in city of Sabzevar lashed a man in public on January 16, 2013
MONTERREY, Mexico ( Journalist Missing in Northern Mexico- Jose Gerardo Padilla was beaten a few months ago )
Journalist Missing in Northern Mexico
MONTERREY,
Mexico – A radio and television announcer in the northern Mexican state of
Coahuila is missing, state officials said.
Jose Gerardo Padilla Blanquet disappeared Tuesday in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila, state security spokesman Jesus Carranza told Efe.
Padilla Blanquet’s friends and co-workers reported on social-networking sites that he was missing, Carranza said.
The journalist’s family filed a missing persons report on Wednesday, Carranza said.
Padilla Blanquet works for Radio Grande de Coahuila, whose director has received threats on numerous occasions and was beaten a few months ago.
State prosecutors are investigating Padilla Blanquet’s disappearance, Coahuila Public Safety Secretary Jose Gerardo Villarreal told the press.
“The deputy prosecutor’s office for investigating and finding missing persons immediately established a search protocol to try to locate him and we are fully supporting them in everything needed,” Villarreal said.
The mutilated body of Daniel Alejandro Martinez, a photographer for Mexico’s La Vanguardia newspaper, was found last week along with that of another young man in Saltillo.
The dismembered bodies of the 22-year-old Martinez and 23-year-old Julian Alejandro Zamora Gracia were found on April 24 in Los Arcos, a neighborhood in the southern section of Saltillo, the Coahuila state Attorney General’s Office said.
Media and press rights groups staged a protest Sunday in Mexico City and several other cities to call for an end to attacks on journalists and pressure officials to clear up crimes against members of the media.
An International Press Institute, or IPI, and World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, or WAN-IFRA, delegation visited Mexico in February and called for more protection for journalists.
Both the IPI and Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, ranked Mexico as the fourth most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2012, trailing only Syria, Somalia and Pakistan.
More than 80 journalists have been murdered and 18 others have been reported missing since 2005 in Mexico, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said in a report released in December.
Some 658 complaints were received from members of the news media from Jan. 1, 2005, to Nov. 30, 2012, the rights body said.
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
MONTERREY,
Mexico – A radio and television announcer in the northern Mexican state of
Coahuila is missing, state officials said.Jose Gerardo Padilla Blanquet disappeared Tuesday in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila, state security spokesman Jesus Carranza told Efe.
Padilla Blanquet’s friends and co-workers reported on social-networking sites that he was missing, Carranza said.
The journalist’s family filed a missing persons report on Wednesday, Carranza said.
Padilla Blanquet works for Radio Grande de Coahuila, whose director has received threats on numerous occasions and was beaten a few months ago.
State prosecutors are investigating Padilla Blanquet’s disappearance, Coahuila Public Safety Secretary Jose Gerardo Villarreal told the press.
“The deputy prosecutor’s office for investigating and finding missing persons immediately established a search protocol to try to locate him and we are fully supporting them in everything needed,” Villarreal said.
The mutilated body of Daniel Alejandro Martinez, a photographer for Mexico’s La Vanguardia newspaper, was found last week along with that of another young man in Saltillo.
The dismembered bodies of the 22-year-old Martinez and 23-year-old Julian Alejandro Zamora Gracia were found on April 24 in Los Arcos, a neighborhood in the southern section of Saltillo, the Coahuila state Attorney General’s Office said.
Media and press rights groups staged a protest Sunday in Mexico City and several other cities to call for an end to attacks on journalists and pressure officials to clear up crimes against members of the media.
An International Press Institute, or IPI, and World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, or WAN-IFRA, delegation visited Mexico in February and called for more protection for journalists.
Both the IPI and Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, ranked Mexico as the fourth most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2012, trailing only Syria, Somalia and Pakistan.
More than 80 journalists have been murdered and 18 others have been reported missing since 2005 in Mexico, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said in a report released in December.
Some 658 complaints were received from members of the news media from Jan. 1, 2005, to Nov. 30, 2012, the rights body said.
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
Syria ( " Massacre " in a Sunni village near the Mediterranean coast )
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition group on Friday accused President Bashar Assad's regime of committing a "large-scale massacre" in a Sunni village near the Mediterranean coast in which activists say at least 50 were killed with guns, knives and blunt objects.
The killings in Bayda reflect the sectarian overtones of Syria's civil war. Tucked in the mountains outside the Mediterranean coastal city of Banias, the village is primarily inhabited by Sunni Muslims, who dominate the country's rebel movement. But it is located in the heartland of Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that is the backbone of the regime.
In amateur video purportedly taken after the killings, the bodies of at least seven men and boys are seen strewn in pools of blood on the pavement in front of a house as women weep around them."Don't sleep, don't move," one woman sobs, leaning over to touch one of the men, who appeared already dead. The video appears genuine and consistent with reporting by The Associated Press from the area.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
MEXICO ( Media afraid to Talk - Might get Killed - Drug Wars ) See Video
Mexican Media Fearful of Reporting on Drug War
Thursday, May 2, 2013 | 
Thursday, May 2, 2013 |
The United States has spent more than $1 billion supporting a war on drug cartels in Mexico.
But as US president Barack Obama heads to Mexico, the situation is still so desperate in some areas that local media are afraid to talk about it.Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Reynosa in Mexico, near the US border.
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But as US president Barack Obama heads to Mexico, the situation is still so desperate in some areas that local media are afraid to talk about it.Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Reynosa in Mexico, near the US border.
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