Vietnam ( Vietnam blogger arrested in Hanoi - Faces 7 years in prison )

Prominent Vietnam blogger arrested in Hanoi

New York, June 14, 2013--Vietnamese police in Hanoi arrested a blogger on Thursday on accusations of anti-state activity, according to news reports. Pham Viet Dao wrote blogs that were critical of government officials and policies, the reports said.
Dao, 61, who also wrote about politically sensitive issues such as the territorial dispute with China, was accused of violating Article 258 of the Vietnam's penal code for "abusing democratic freedoms," the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement, according to news reports. If convicted, Dao could face a jail term of up to seven years, the reports said.

Dao's arrest follows that of another blogger, Truong Duy Nhat, who wasdetained under similar accusations in late May.
"The arrest of a second blogger within a month shows the intensifying crackdown on critical dissent in Vietnam," said Joel Simon, CPJ's executive director. "While the Internet has been an outlet for dissent in Vietnam, the limited space is rapidly closing."
Dao, a former official at the Ministry of Culture and long-standing member of the Vietnamese Communist Party, has become a well-known blogger in the country with thousands of followers, according to reports. His blog was not accessible today, reports said.
Over the past year, Vietnam has intensified its grip on old and new media through a campaign of censorship, surveillance, and imprisonments. CPJ researchshows that in each of the past several years, authorities have ramped up their crackdown on critical journalists, focusing heavily on those who work online. All but one of the reporters imprisoned in 2012 published blogs or contributed to online news publications.

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GUATEMALA CITY ( Drug Traffickers Blamed for Massacre of 8 Cops -Guatemalan President says )

GUATEMALA CITY – Drug traffickers were behind the killings of eight police officers in the western province of Quetzaltenango, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said on Friday.

Three distinct drug outfits operate in the region and the intelligence services are “investigating which one is responsible” for Thursday night’s attack on the police barracks in the town of Salcaja, the president said.

“The agents were surprised while they were resting,” Perez Molina said.

The commander of the police unit in Salcaja, Carlos Augusto Garcia, was taken captive by the assailants. His police radio was found later in a home near the barracks, investigators said.

Wearing ski-masks, the attackers arrived at the police barracks in two vehicles, entered the building and shot the cops – some of whom were in bed – at close range, according to accounts from witnesses and officials. EFE

IXTAPALUCA, Mexico ( Young woman found killed in her Ford Explorer - Disturbing story)

IXTAPALUCA, Mex. - In a van, a lifeless body of a woman with a cut throat, was discovered lying in the front seat of a van parked in the vicinity of the dwelling unit in Las Palmas.

It all started last night when police in the city of Ixtapaluca,found a white Ford Explorer, license plates of the state of Querétaro and it was parked on the shoulder in the direction toward the Mexico-Puebla,.

Apparently the woman in her 30s was beheaded within the Explorer White, registration UKF3900. This female was in the driver's seat and the vehicle remained locked and abandoned under the shadows of the night.



Experts arrived later from the Attorney Generals office of the State of Mexico (PGJEM) who, with the consent of the prosecutor pulled  body from inside and took her to the medical examiner. The victim is  unkown at this time.

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Mexico Totolapan ( Five men that were employed as bricklayers were executed with AK-47 and AR-15 )

Five men that were employed as bricklayers were executed with AK-47 and AR-15 in the town of Totolapan, Oaxaca, confirmed by the Attorney General of the State (PGJE).
According to the prosecutor, the multi homicide  was perpetrated on Thursday evening on Highway 190, by an armed group traveling with two motor units, a truck and a compact car from which they fired from.

 The attack killed Sibaja Plutarco Garcia, 33, Irving Garcia Sibaja, 25, Hector Santiago, 28, Edgar Merino Alvarez, 19, and Plutarch Garcia Mitra, 65.
State Police reported at that the crime scene they found  70 AK-47 and AR-15 rounds .

GUATEMALA CITY massacre ( Eight policemen were killed Thursday night - Ambushed at police station )

Eight policemen were killed Thursday night during a direct attack on the substation Salcajá, Quetzaltenango, and a sub-inspector is gone.

GUATEMALA CITY - The Municipal Fire Departmental and Gerson Oliva, director of the National Civil Police (PNC), confirmed the death of the agents, who were resting in place and therefore were unarmed.

Agents are Bosbeli Amilcar Castillo De Leon, Hector Tun Busel, Wieles Stuart Gabriel Lopez, Juan Garcia Chum, Rodolfo Herrera Solis, Omar Mérida and Rigoberto Stuart Sales Tomas Hernandez. Selvin Sources Roderick Miranda, who were wounded, perished in the Western Regional Hospital, at the head of Quetzaltenango.

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Follow us: @ MundoNarco on TwitterLa institution confirming the disappearance of sergeant Cesar Augusto Garcia Cortez.

Ezekiel Hosea Agent Perez Lopez, who had been  missing, was dining outside the police station at the time of the attack.

The massacre took place Salcajá police station, located in the center of town, about 190 kilometers west of the capital.

Unofficial versions indicate that the attack could be in retaliation for zn arrest, days ago, a bodyguard who worked for a man Malacatán, San Marcos, apparently linked to drug trafficking. (Los Zetas )

Neighbors said criminals were conducted on two agricultural vehicles.

The authorities set up to track these vehicles operational.

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Burma ( Online and in danger in Burma- Blogger gets 20 yrs in prison )

Early moves by Thein Sein to ease Internet censorship are viewed as a limited concession to press freedom, since Burma has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world. Now, planned foreign investments in mobile infrastructure promise to expand access, but a draft telecommunications law would leave intact many of the vague legal restrictions used to curb online freedoms in the past. By Shawn W. Crispin

Burmese citizens use an Internet café in Rangoon. The country has one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world. (AFP)

When police officers first arrested Nay Phone Latt in 2008, they were initially unaware that the former activist was an active blogger. Later that year, after interrogations in pre-trial detention, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for blog entries he wrote about anti-government street protests held in 2007 and for posting online a poem he wrote that insinuated in a hidden message that then-junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe was “foolish with power.”