Up to half a million supporters of the Islamofascism group Hefazat-e Islam gathered in the city to call for stronger Islamic policies in this secular Muslim country. Rioters set fire to shops and vehicles. At least seven people were killed and 60 injured in clashes with police.
MEXICO CITY – Police
found seven bodies in a street in Ecatepec, a city northeast of Mexico City,
over the weekend, state officials said.
The bodies were discovered early
Sunday on Pemex avenue in the Obrera Jajalpa district of Ecatepec, a spokesman
for the Mexico state Attorney General’s Office told Efe.
Four of the
bodies were found by state police inside a vehicle and the other three were on
the ground, Milenio Television reported.
Three of the victims were
clothed and the other four were naked, the El Universal newspaper reported on
its Web site.
Eight bodies, six of them naked and showing signs of
torture, were found by municipal police officers in Ecatepec on Oct.
25.
City officials said at the time that investigators presumed the
killings were linked to organized crime because of the way the victims were
murdered, but no messages were left with the bodies.
Ecatepec has 1.9
million residents and is one of largest cities in Mexico state, which surrounds
the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan
area.
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. EFE
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".
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.
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
MEXICO CITY | Sun May 5, 2013 3:38pm EDT 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 – Police
found seven bodies in a street in Ecatepec, a city northeast of Mexico City,
over the weekend, state officials 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.
QUITO – Military personnel confiscated
eight anti-tank rockets from two civilians traveling in a private automobile,
Ecuador’s Armed Forces Joint Command said Friday.
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.
