People took to the streets to celebrate Iran's victory in soccer match.
HRANA News Agency – The Police Chief in Boshehr Province has announced that 16 individuals have been arrested after people took to the streets last Tuesday to celebrate Iran’s victory against South Korea during the qualifying match for 2014 World Cup.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Lieutenant Haydar Abbas-Zadeh made the announcement in an interview with Persian Gulf News Agency. “They were drinking alcohol,” Abbas-Zadeh said. “They also threw stones at the police, set trash on fire, broke street lights and destroyed public property.”
Iranian regime jails four Christian for practising their religion
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NCRI - Four Christians have been jailed for almost four years in Iran for disrupting national security by practising their religion.
Mojtaba Seyed Allaoding Hossein, Mohammad Reza Partoi (Kuroush), Vahid Hakani and Homayoun Shokuhi were arrested on February 7 this year after the security forces had raided their house meeting in Shiraz. They were convicted of participating in house meetings, advertising Christianity, having connections with Christian Organizations abroad, propaganda against the government and disrupting the national security.
The Revolutionary Court in the city of Shiraz sentenced all of them to three years and eight months in prison.
Mr Hossein and Mr Shokuhi were also handed eight months suspended sentences and Fariba Nazemian and her 17 year-old son Nima Shokuhi were handed two year suspended prison sentences.
Favad Sadeghi & Ali Ghazali are Iranian journalists. Photo from archive
HRANA News Agency – Two Iranian journalists, Favad Sadeghi and Ali Ghazali, are detained in Ward 240 of Evin Prison without charge. Sadeghi and Ghazali have been in prison for 28 and 47 days respectively.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), both journalists work for Baztab, a website that publishes news and other related information in Iran. Sadeghi and Ghazali were arrested after Baztab published two reports about financial corruptions of Iranian government officials.
Sadeghi is married and has a two-year-old toddler and a 6-month-old infant. His two-year-old child who suffered violent convolutions before Sadeghi was arrested is reportedly in critical condition. For the last ten days, Sadeghi’s children have been denied the opportunity to visit their father.
The Ministry of Intelligence & National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran
HRANA News Agency – The Communications Headquarters of Iran’s Intelligence Agency has recently sent text messages to political activists and the general public, threatening them to watch their steps.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), during the last few days, the Communications Headquarters has broadcast text messages as a warning to the public. “Your behavior is unacceptable,” the message says. “Repeating it will have legal repercussions.”
WASHINGTON – An
arrest warrant has been issued for New England Patriots tight end Aaron
Hernandez in connection with the murder of his friend, Odin Lloyd, U.S. media
reported Friday.
CBS News and other media cited police sources as saying
the 23-year-old star player, who is of Puerto Rican descent, would be accused of
obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence in the case.
ABC
News, meanwhile, reported that the player, who was selected for the Pro Bowl
following the 2011 season, intentionally destroyed his home’s security system,
including video cameras.
Police also want to know why Hernandez hired a
team of house cleaners to clean his house on Monday and why the cellphone he
turned in to police had been shattered, ABC added.
A jogger discovered
the body of the 27-year-old Lloyd on Monday evening less than a mile from
Hernandez’s house, which is located 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of
Boston.
Police said Lloyd, who was apparently killed in the pre-dawn
hours of Monday, had been with Hernandez and two other men prior to his death.
EFE
CHILPANCINGO,
Mexico – A vigilante group in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero on Friday
blocked the highway between the Mexican port of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo to
demand that the federal government enact measures to restore safety to the
region.
Residents of the Tecpan de Galeana municipality, some 40
kilometers (25 miles) from Zihuatanejo, blocked traffic on the federal highway
starting Thursday “to demand that the president (Enrique Peña Nieto) clear the
area of organized crime,” Leopoldo Soberanis told Efe.
In a statement
over the phone, Soberanis, a leader of the self-described Citizen
Self-Protection Group, said the presence of the Caballeros Templarios crime
organization in the region “has hurt tourism and the production of our
villages.”
The leader complained that the governor of Guerrero, Angel
Aguirre Rivero, has “ignored people’s reports on the presence of the Caballeros
Templarios,” a group that operates in several of the state’s municipalities
including the tourist areas of Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo.
For that reason at
least 600 armed men have had roadblocks set up since Thursday on the
Acapulco-Zihuatanejo highway in six villages of Tecpan de Galeana, which has
left hundreds of tourists stranded on the road.
Soberanis said the
“Caballeros Templarios are robbing locals of their mango and coconut crops,
they’re stealing trucks carrying livestock and collect protection money from
storekeepers, cattlemen and business owners” in the area.
He also said
they are suspected of being behind the deaths of 45 people and of disappearing
19 others since the beginning of the year.
Up to now not a single local
or federal authority has showed up at the roadblocks to talk with the armed men
or to try and clear the highway.
The Caballeros Templarios, which
appeared in March 2011 as an offshoot of La Familia Michoacana cartel, has been
identified as responsible for kidnappings, homicides, and the extortion of
storekeepers and truckers. EFE
Protests Leave 2 Dead in Brazil A total of 62 people
were injured in the protests Thursday night that drew more than 1 million people
into the streets of about 80 cities across the country
RIO DE JANEIRO – At
least two people were killed in the protests that drew more than 1 million
people into the streets of about 80 cities across Brazil, officials said
Friday.
A total of 62 people were injured in the protests Thursday night
that sent 300,000 people pouring into the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
A
protester was killed when he was hit by a vehicle in Riberão Preto, a city in
São Paulo state, becoming the first fatality in the wave of protests that
started last week over a hike in public transit fares.
The second
fatality occurred in the Amazonian city of Belem, where a woman died from a
heart attack after inhaling tear gas fired by police.
The grassroots
movement that organized the protests, meanwhile, announced Friday it was
suspending the demonstrations to evaluate the situation amid indications that
groups with other interests had infiltrated the protests.
The government
said it was concerned that the protests could affect next Pope Francis’s visit
to Brazil next month.
Violent demonstrators tried to enter Congress and
the Foreign Ministry, breaking windows and setting fire to exterior columns on
Thursday night.
Other groups tried to force their way into Rio de Janeiro
city hall and the seat of government in Fortaleza.
Protesters clashed
with police in other cities, such as Salvador and Campinas.
Riot police
used tear gas and charges by mounted officers to disperse the crowds.
The
protests continued even after the government rescinded the fare increase,
reflecting widespread discontent over the situation in cities across
Brazil.
Protesters are calling for measures to deal with corruption, more
investment in health care and public education, and criticizing the huge sums
being spent by the government on the 2014 World Cup. EFE
People took to the streets to celebrate Iran's victory in soccer match. 
They were convicted of participating in house meetings, advertising Christianity, having connections with Christian Organizations abroad, propaganda against the government and disrupting the national security.
Favad Sadeghi & Ali Ghazali are Iranian journalists. Photo from archive 
The Ministry of Intelligence & National Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran 
WASHINGTON – An
arrest warrant has been issued for New England Patriots tight end Aaron
Hernandez in connection with the murder of his friend, Odin Lloyd, U.S. media
reported Friday.
CHILPANCINGO,
Mexico – A vigilante group in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero on Friday
blocked the highway between the Mexican port of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo to
demand that the federal government enact measures to restore safety to the
region.
