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Friday, June 7, 2013
BOLIVIA News ( Vigilante justice - Murder and rape suspect thrown in grave and buried alive with victim )
Mob of angry Bolivian villagers teams up in vigilante attack on 17-year-old
Posted Jun 7, 2013 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) – Sometimes it takes a village … to enact vigilante justice on an alleged teenage murderer. When police identified 17-year-old Santos Ramos as a suspect in the rape and murder of a 35-year-old near the small Bolivian town of Colquechaca, residents took matters into their own hands. During his alleged victim's Wednesday funeral, a crowd of more than 200 descended on Ramos, tied him up, and tossed him into the woman's still-open grave next to her coffin, the BBC reports.
The grave was then filled with dirt, burying Ramos alive and presumably killing him. Residents apparently also blocked the road to prevent police from intervening. The AP notes it wasn't the only lynching carried out on Wednesday in Potosi province: Residents of Tres Cruces attacked two suspected thieves who were alleged to have robbed a car and killed its driver; one was stoned to death, the other burned alive
Mexico City ( Arrest warrants obtained for 3 suspects - In kidnapping of 11 people from Bar )
Missing Youths Were Taken from Mexico City Bar, Attorney
Says
MEXICO
CITY – The 12 young people who have been missing since late last month in Mexico
City were taken from the bar where they had met up in the Zona Rosa tourist
district, attorney Ricardo Martinez told Efe on Thursday.
The investigators’ file “contains information that shows they were inside (the Heaven bar) and were, in fact, taken from there,” Martinez, who represents the families of the missing youths, said.
“I cannot tell you what this” information is because it is part of the sealed case file, the attorney, who examined the documents on Wednesday, said, adding that he had not seen any videos showing the group being led away from the bar.
Federal District Attorney Rodolfo Rios met with the victims’ relatives on Tuesday and played security videos for them that “show how some of the kids arrive in two vehicles, a red vehicle and a taxi, and get out,” the attorney said.
Martinez said he planned to meet with the DA on Friday to get a briefing on the state of the investigation.
An arrest warrant was obtained and served on three people who may be linked to the disappearance of the 12 young people, Rios said earlier this week.
The suspects – two men and a woman – were taken to the holding facility at the DA’s office.
The young people were led away from the Heaven bar in the Zona Rosa by masked gunmen on May 26, relatives and a young man who managed to escape said.
The victims, who were employed and liked to spend time at the bar, were led away from the establishment to waiting SUVs by men dressed in black who identified themselves as police officers, relatives said.
The victims are from Tepito, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico City and a center for sales of pirated goods.
One of the missing youths is Jerry Ortiz Ponce, a 16-year-old boy whose jailed father, Jorge Ortiz Reyes, is one of the leaders of the La Union gang, media reports said.
Ortiz Reyes is still running the criminal organization from prison, media reports said.
A rival gang may have staged the kidnapping to settle a score with La Union following the killing of a drug dealer in Mexico City two days before the youths disappeared, press reports said.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said earlier this week that large drug cartels were not operating in the capital.
“We have not detected any trace of this,” the mayor said in response to questions from reporters. EFE
MEXICO
CITY – The 12 young people who have been missing since late last month in Mexico
City were taken from the bar where they had met up in the Zona Rosa tourist
district, attorney Ricardo Martinez told Efe on Thursday.The investigators’ file “contains information that shows they were inside (the Heaven bar) and were, in fact, taken from there,” Martinez, who represents the families of the missing youths, said.
“I cannot tell you what this” information is because it is part of the sealed case file, the attorney, who examined the documents on Wednesday, said, adding that he had not seen any videos showing the group being led away from the bar.
Federal District Attorney Rodolfo Rios met with the victims’ relatives on Tuesday and played security videos for them that “show how some of the kids arrive in two vehicles, a red vehicle and a taxi, and get out,” the attorney said.
Martinez said he planned to meet with the DA on Friday to get a briefing on the state of the investigation.
An arrest warrant was obtained and served on three people who may be linked to the disappearance of the 12 young people, Rios said earlier this week.
The suspects – two men and a woman – were taken to the holding facility at the DA’s office.
The young people were led away from the Heaven bar in the Zona Rosa by masked gunmen on May 26, relatives and a young man who managed to escape said.
The victims, who were employed and liked to spend time at the bar, were led away from the establishment to waiting SUVs by men dressed in black who identified themselves as police officers, relatives said.
The victims are from Tepito, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico City and a center for sales of pirated goods.
One of the missing youths is Jerry Ortiz Ponce, a 16-year-old boy whose jailed father, Jorge Ortiz Reyes, is one of the leaders of the La Union gang, media reports said.
Ortiz Reyes is still running the criminal organization from prison, media reports said.
A rival gang may have staged the kidnapping to settle a score with La Union following the killing of a drug dealer in Mexico City two days before the youths disappeared, press reports said.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said earlier this week that large drug cartels were not operating in the capital.
“We have not detected any trace of this,” the mayor said in response to questions from reporters. EFE
Mexico City ( Mexican Army Rescues 165 Migrants from Gang )
MEXICO
CITY – Soldiers rescued 165 migrants, including 151 foreigners, from the
clutches of a criminal gang in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, the
Mexican government said Thursday.Most of the foreign captives were from Central America, but the group also included an Indian national, federal security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez told reporters.
A tip from the public led to the search of a home in the town of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, where troops detained a rifle-toting man, Sanchez said.
Seven children and two pregnant women were among the captives, he said.
The migrants spent more than two weeks crammed into the gang’s safe house as the criminals telephoned the captives’ families to demand ransoms, the spokesman said.
“The people rescued said they had been detained” by the criminals “in various actions and places along the border strip when they were trying to find a way to cross” into the United States, Sanchez said.
The foreign migrants are likely to be repatriated to their respective homelands.
Every year, tens of thousands of Central Americans undertake the journey across Mexico to reach the United States. The trek is a dangerous one, with criminals and corrupt Mexican officials preying on the migrants.
Tamaulipas, which borders Texas, was the scene in August 2010 of a massacre of 72 undocumented immigrants by members of the Los Zetas drug cartel.
Zetas gunmen pulled the migrants from northbound buses and sought to recruit them as cartel employees.
The migrants were executed when they refused to work for the Zetas. EFE
Thursday, June 6, 2013
PHOENIX Az ( Man drops off little girl at fire station -Said mother is not taking care of her ) See photo
PHOENIX -- Police are trying to identify a child who was left at a Phoenix fire station Wednesday night.
A black man, approximately 40-45 years old, walked up to the station near 200 E. Roeser with a black female child at about 8:30, according to a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Dept.
The man told firefighters the mother was not taking care of the child and walked away from the fire station leaving the young girl in their care.
The child is believed to be 4-5 years old.
Phoenix police detectives responded to the scene and have made every attempt to communicate with the child to determine her identity or the identity of her parents. Their attempts have been unsuccessful.
Detectives have not yet identified any family members or located any family at this time.
The Phoenix Police Department is asking anyone who may know this child or the child's family to please contact the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6141
A black man, approximately 40-45 years old, walked up to the station near 200 E. Roeser with a black female child at about 8:30, according to a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Dept.
The man told firefighters the mother was not taking care of the child and walked away from the fire station leaving the young girl in their care.
The child is believed to be 4-5 years old.
Phoenix police detectives responded to the scene and have made every attempt to communicate with the child to determine her identity or the identity of her parents. Their attempts have been unsuccessful.
Detectives have not yet identified any family members or located any family at this time.
The Phoenix Police Department is asking anyone who may know this child or the child's family to please contact the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6141
Irans News ( Blogger Sentenced to " Death " refuses to appear in court ) Better leave town ?
Blogger Vahid Asghari refuses to appear in court
Vahid Asghari is an Iranian blogger locked up for five years in Evin. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Asghari had previously been sentenced to death by Judge Salvati presiding over the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. However, the Supreme Court recently remanded his case to the 28th branch of the Appeals Court. Judge Mohammed Moqayaseh has been assigned to review the case.
Before his arrest, Asghari was studying computer engineering at Bangalore University in India. He was expected to appear in court on Sunday, June 2, 2013 but instead wrote a letter to explain his reasons for refusing to comply with the judge’s order.
“I refuse to appear in court for many reasons some of which are as follows,” Asghari writes in the letter obtained by HRANA. “I am forced to wear a prisoner’s uniform during court appearance. I have not been allowed to meet with my attorney so far even once. I have no knowledge of the old and new charges against me. I was neither informed of the lower court’s verdict nor the Supreme Court’s ruling.”
In his letter, Asghari further describes that he has been denied access to a defense attorney. “I have every right to refuse court appearance under such circumstances,” he declares. “And I must be immune from retaliation. No one has the right to send me to solitary confinement or torture me because of this decision.”
“I have been in so-called temporary custody for five years,” Asghari further explains in his letter. “Meanwhile, the judge and the prosecutor have refused to examine the documents that I have submitted in my own defense. Instead, they have used my so-called confessions which were obtained under duress while I was being tortured for two years.”
“Asghari is currently under tremendous pressure to appear in court,” a prisoner locked up in Ward 350 of Evin Prison says.
Iran News ( Female students banned from engineering fields )
Female students banned from engineering fields
Isfahan University of Technology According to a report by Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Isfahan University of Technology will no longer admit female students into graduate programs to study agricultural engineering with a concentration in irrigation, animal science and machinery. Female students have also been banned from obtaining masters degrees in natural resources engineering with a concentration in watershed and land management as well as desertification. Furthermore, the university has adopted a policy to admit only male students to study water resources engineering.
A group of undergraduate female students have objected to the new policy, expressing their concerns in a letter written to the university officials. “These decisions have been made without considering the number of female students currently enrolled in the related undergraduate programs,” the students wrote. “Given the fact that the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology grants priority admission to local students, depriving residents from entering into graduate programs is contradictory to this standing policy and unjust.”
“Due to our social norms and restrictions, female students aren’t free to leave home to study out of town,” the students said in their letter. “We have already asked the university board of directors to lift these restrictions. But citing lack of job opportunities for female students, the board of directors has failed to address our concerns.”
“We have been told that our field of study is incompatible with our femininity,” the students complained. “Nonetheless, we believe that we are as qualified as our male counterparts to specialize in any of these areas. A large number of female engineers have already succeeded in the same fields. Female students can have a promising future ahead of them if they are given the same opportunities as men. We can excel in the job market both as engineers and teachers, training future female students.”
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