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Monday, May 6, 2013
Iran News ( Public Hanging - Liberty Square - 3 murder suspects ) Western Iran
Three Prisoners Hanged Publicly at the Liberty Square of Kermanshah (Western Iran)
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Iran Human Rights, May 6: Three prisoners were hanged in the "Liberty Square" of Kermanshah (western Iran) today.
According to the state run Iranian news agency ISNA, the prisoners were all convicted of murder.
Two of the prisoners were convicted of murdering a man , had "immoral" relationship with the man’s wife and where given 6 million Toman for kliing the husband. The report didn’t mention whether the victim’s wife was convicted of adultery and complicity in murder.
The third man who was hanged publicly today was also convictied of killing a girl with a gun. the girl and her family had refused to get married to the man, said the report.
None of those executed today were identified by name.
Kermanshah’s "Liberty Square" has been the scene of several public executions in the past few years (picture above, January 2012).
Iran Human rights strongly condemn’s the new wave of public executions in Iran. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR said: " the new wave of executions in Iran are meant to spread fear among the people in order to prevent protests in relation with the coming Presidential elections in June".
According to the state run Iranian news agency ISNA, the prisoners were all convicted of murder.
Two of the prisoners were convicted of murdering a man , had "immoral" relationship with the man’s wife and where given 6 million Toman for kliing the husband. The report didn’t mention whether the victim’s wife was convicted of adultery and complicity in murder.
The third man who was hanged publicly today was also convictied of killing a girl with a gun. the girl and her family had refused to get married to the man, said the report.
None of those executed today were identified by name.
Kermanshah’s "Liberty Square" has been the scene of several public executions in the past few years (picture above, January 2012).
Iran Human rights strongly condemn’s the new wave of public executions in Iran. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR said: " the new wave of executions in Iran are meant to spread fear among the people in order to prevent protests in relation with the coming Presidential elections in June".
MEXICO ( More violence- Shootouts Leave 11 Dead in Northeast Mexico )
The victims, including a soldier, died in three shootouts between army troops and armed civilians in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, authorities said
MEXICO CITY – At
least 11 people, including a soldier, died in three shootouts between army
troops and armed civilians in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the
state government said Sunday.The shootouts occurred on Saturday, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
“The first of the shootouts occurred at 2:30 p.m. in La Presa, an agricultural community south of the town of Valadeces, city of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, where two armed civilians died,” the AG’s office said.
Another shootout happened in Matamoros at 6:15 p.m. near kilometer 21 of the highway that links that border city with Reynosa, leaving “six armed civilians dead,” the AG’s office said.
“The third shootout occurred at 7:40 p.m. in the agricultural community of Acatlan, city of Guemez, where two armed civilians and a soldier died,” the AG’s office said.
The Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Tamaulipas and smuggling routes into the United States.
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.
Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, deployed thousands of soldiers and Federal Police officers across the country to fight drug cartels.
President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has continued the strategy implemented by Calderon of taking on the cartels, but he has also called for bolstering intelligence capabilities and attacking criminal organizations’ entire structures, not just kingpins.
Ecuador ( Ecuador Nabs 2 in Possession of Anti-Tank Rockets )
Ecuador Nabs 2 in Possession of Anti-Tank Rockets
QUITO – Military personnel confiscated
eight anti-tank rockets from two civilians traveling in a private automobile,
Ecuador’s Armed Forces Joint Command said Friday.
Troops found the ordnance Thursday during a search conducted at a highway checkpoint 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Mitad del Mundo, near Quito.
The eight PG-7 rockets, used with RPG-7 launchers, were found “hidden among oranges in a jute sack,” the Joint Command said in a statement.
“The rockets and the citizens were handed over to the competent authorities for the corresponding legal steps,” the statement said. EFE
QUITO – Military personnel confiscated
eight anti-tank rockets from two civilians traveling in a private automobile,
Ecuador’s Armed Forces Joint Command said Friday.Troops found the ordnance Thursday during a search conducted at a highway checkpoint 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Mitad del Mundo, near Quito.
The eight PG-7 rockets, used with RPG-7 launchers, were found “hidden among oranges in a jute sack,” the Joint Command said in a statement.
“The rockets and the citizens were handed over to the competent authorities for the corresponding legal steps,” the statement said. EFE
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Mexico City ( Gunmen executed two sons of two prominent Mexican journalists )
MEXICO CITY |
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen executed two sons of two prominent Mexican journalists in the northern city of Chihuahua, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office said on Sunday, and police found seven bodies dumped in a Mexico City suburb.Alfredo Paramo, 20, and Diego Paramo, 21, were shot dead in Chihuahua early on Saturday after being chased through the streets by gunmen in a car, said spokesman Carlos Gonzalez.
They are the sons of well-known Mexican financial journalist David Paramo, who hosts a radio show, appears on TV Azteca and has a national newspaper column, and Martha Gonzalez, the editor of the local El Peso newspaper.
"We still don't know what they were doing there," Carlos Gonzalez said. "But this has nothing to do with the professional activities of their parents."
Mexican journalists are often targeted and killed by drug cartels for reporting on their activities. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based advocacy group, says 25 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 1992.
In a separate incident, authorities found seven bodies dumped in a car in a Mexico City suburb on Sunday morning, a local police official said.
Two of the men were found naked. Police have identified three of the men, who ranged in ages from 14 to 42, the official said.
It appeared all seven men, who were found in the suburb of Ecatepec, had been shot, the official said.
Last year, police discovered eight corpses dumped in the down-at-the-heels suburb of 2 million people.
Ecatepec lies in the State of Mexico, which borders the capital to the north and where more than half the population of greater Mexico City lives.
Until 2011, Enrique Pena Nieto, now the president of Mexico, was the governor of the State of Mexico.
He has vowed to take a different tack than his presidential predecessor, Felipe Calderon, who sent in the troops to tackle the warring drug cartels. Pena Nieto has focused instead on stopping kidnapping and extortion.
Roughly 70,000 people have died in drug-related killings since 2006, when Calderon launched his military-led campaign. More than 4,200 have died in the first four months of Pena Nieto's term, a slower pace than early 2012.
(Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter; Editing by Eric Beech)
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen executed two sons of two prominent Mexican journalists in the northern city of Chihuahua, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office said on Sunday, and police found seven bodies dumped in a Mexico City suburb.Alfredo Paramo, 20, and Diego Paramo, 21, were shot dead in Chihuahua early on Saturday after being chased through the streets by gunmen in a car, said spokesman Carlos Gonzalez.
They are the sons of well-known Mexican financial journalist David Paramo, who hosts a radio show, appears on TV Azteca and has a national newspaper column, and Martha Gonzalez, the editor of the local El Peso newspaper."We still don't know what they were doing there," Carlos Gonzalez said. "But this has nothing to do with the professional activities of their parents."
Mexican journalists are often targeted and killed by drug cartels for reporting on their activities. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based advocacy group, says 25 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 1992.
In a separate incident, authorities found seven bodies dumped in a car in a Mexico City suburb on Sunday morning, a local police official said.
Two of the men were found naked. Police have identified three of the men, who ranged in ages from 14 to 42, the official said.
It appeared all seven men, who were found in the suburb of Ecatepec, had been shot, the official said.
Last year, police discovered eight corpses dumped in the down-at-the-heels suburb of 2 million people.
Ecatepec lies in the State of Mexico, which borders the capital to the north and where more than half the population of greater Mexico City lives.
Until 2011, Enrique Pena Nieto, now the president of Mexico, was the governor of the State of Mexico.
He has vowed to take a different tack than his presidential predecessor, Felipe Calderon, who sent in the troops to tackle the warring drug cartels. Pena Nieto has focused instead on stopping kidnapping and extortion.
Roughly 70,000 people have died in drug-related killings since 2006, when Calderon launched his military-led campaign. More than 4,200 have died in the first four months of Pena Nieto's term, a slower pace than early 2012.
(Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter; Editing by Eric Beech)
Mexico Juarez ( Missing Texas girl 14 from dallas - found - Suspect arrested by Juarez police) Alleges rape
Posted: 05/04/2013 12:00:00 AM MDT
Stephan Cox (left) and Ruby Contreras are believed to be traveling together. (Police photo)
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Lorena Figueroa 
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The teenager was found around 5 a.m. at the intersection of María Martínez Street and Benito Juárez Avenue, a few blocks from the Paso del Norte international bridge in downtown Juárez.
Officers patrolling the area found the girl arguing with Stephan Andrew Cox, 26. The girl identified herself as "Paloma," and she alleged that Cox had taken her into Mexico by force and raped her, police reported.
Cox was arrested. Police said he had a bag of marijuana when he was arrested.
The Texas girl had been missing since April 24, when she didn't return home from North Oaks Middle School in Haltom City.
North Richland Hills police issued an Amber Alert looking for the teenager, who was thought to be with Cox.
Juárez police said Cox was taken to the Distrito Universidad Police Station, where he was taken into custody on charges of human trafficking, rape, threat and drug charges.
Juárez police said that Cox had previously tried to lure another 14-year-old girl from Pennsylvania but was arrested. He was awaiting trial on bond when he allegedly threatened the Texas girl and forced her to leave her family and cross the border with him, according to police.
The girl was taken to the Attorney General's Office in Juárez to give a sworn statement against
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Police said arrangements have begun to return the 14-year-old to her family in Texas.
Lorena Figueroa may be reached at lfigueroa@elpasotimes.com; 546-6129.
UTAH ( 46 yr old Soccer Referee who was punched by a teen player has slipped into a coma and has died )
May 5, 2013 ( MURRAY, Utah) -- A 46-year-old soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player during a game and later slipped into a coma has died, police said.
Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following the assault last weekend, Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal said Saturday night. Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.
"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," Hoyal said in a press release.
The teen, whose name hasn't been released because of his age, has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault. Hoyal said authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.
An autopsy is planned. No cause of death was released.
Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
The victim's family, which publicly spoke of Portillo's plight this past week, has asked for privacy, Hoyal said.
Johana Portillo, 26, said last week that she wasn't at the April 27 game in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, but she said she's been told by witnesses and detectives that the player hit her father in the side of the head.
"When he was writing down his notes, he just came out of nowhere and punched him," she said.
Accounts from a police report, Portillo's daughter and others offer more details about what occurred.
The teenager was playing goalie during a game at Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville when Portillo issued him a yellow card for pushing an opposing forward trying to score a goal. In soccer, a yellow card is given as a warning to a player for an egregious violation of the rules.
The teenager, quite a bit heavier than Portillo, began arguing with the referee, then unleashed a punch to his face. Portillo seemed fine at first, then asked to be held because he felt dizzy. He sat down and started vomiting blood, triggering his friend to call an ambulance.
When police arrived around noon, the teenager was gone and Portillo was laying on the ground in the fetal position. Through translators, Portillo told EMTs that his face and back hurt and he felt nauseous. He had no visible injuries and remained conscious. He was considered to be in fair condition when they took him to the Intermountain Medical Center.
But when Portillo arrived to the hospital, he slipped into a coma with swelling in his brain. Johana Portillo called detectives to let them know his condition had worsened.
That's when detectives intensified their search for the goalie. By Saturday evening, the teenager's father agreed to bring him down to speak with police.
Portillo's family said he had been attacked before, and Johanna Portillo said she and her sisters begged their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players, but he continued because he loved soccer.
"It was his passion," she said. "We could not tell him no."
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