Pakistan ( Islamic militants kill nine foreign tourists - Because of U.S drone Strike )

SLAMABAD (AP) — At least a dozen Islamic militants wearing police uniforms shot to death nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani before dawn Sunday as they were visiting one of the world's highest mountains in a remote area of northern Pakistan that has been largely peaceful, officials said.
The foreigners who were killed included five Ukrainians, three Chinese and one Russian, said Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. One Chinese tourist was wounded in the attack and was rescued, he said.

The local branch of the Taliban took responsibility for the killings, saying it was to avenge the death of a leader killed in a recent U.S. drone strike.

The shooting was one of the worst attacks on foreigners in Pakistan in recent years and is likely to damage the country's already struggling tourism industry. Pakistan's mountainous north — considered until now relatively safe — is one of the main attractions in a country beset with insurgency and other political instability.

ISTANBUL ( Police Remove Thousands of Protesters from Istanbul’s Taksim Square )

Police Remove Thousands of Protesters from Istanbul’s Taksim Square

ISTANBUL – Riot police on Saturday resorted to armored vehicles and water cannons to clear Istanbul’s Taksim Square of the tens of thousands of people who had gathered there to stage a peaceful demonstration.

The tension mounted until 6:00 p.m. as the protesters, who assembled Saturday afternoon in the square with red carnations commemorating the violent removal of demonstrators from nearby Gezi Park a week ago, moved in small groups among the police brigades.

After an hour of peaceful protests, police with their megaphones ordered the demonstrators to leave, which no one did. The cops then blasted jets of water from the armored vehicles that had been surrounding the square for days.

Unlike previous weeks, riot police did not launch tear gas, nor were there scenes of panic or attacks against the officers.

Police guarded the area, though without completely cordoning it off, and many citizens maintained an attitude of protest in the nearby streets, but without any clashes.

The protests began on May 28 as a rejection of government plans to raze Gezi Park to build a replica of an Ottoman-era military barracks and a shopping mall, but they expanded into a broader movement against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, which the demonstrators say has become increasingly authoritarian

Mexico ( Four Prosecutors from Attorney General’s Office Killed in Northwest Mexico ) Crazy

CULIACAN, Mexico – An armed group gunned down four people, three of them prosecutors from the Sinaloa state Attorney General’s Office, along with a student doing professional practice at that agency, authorities said.

Sources with the state AG’s office said that the attack was perpetrated on a main street of Guasave municipality when the gunmen in a moving vehicle shot at the victims riding in another.

The authorities said the group, armed with automatic rifles, intercepted the officials’ vehicle at the intersection of two major Guasave thoroughfares and fired several rounds at them

Police launched an operation to cordon off the area and to begin investigating the case, though as yet they have not uncovered any details about the group of assailants.

The multiple homicide indicates a resurgence of the region’s wave of violence and comes a day after the visit of Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, who met with Gov. Mario Lopez Valdez to analyze the violence in the state.

Sinaloa state’s deputy attorney general, Martin Robles, noted days ago the possibility that the recent homicides in Guasave and Ahome are the work of a gang headed by Fausto Isidro Meza, alias “el Chapo Isidro.”

Brazil ( At least 25 Journalists attacked, detained amid Brazil protests )

 

At least 25 journalists have said they were attacked or briefly detained while covering protests that have spread throughout Brazil. (AFP/Tasso Marcelo)

New York, June 21, 2013--At least 25 journalists have reported being attacked or detained amid protests that have swept Brazil over the past two weeks, growing from discontent in São Paulo over public transportation fare hikes to wider nationwide demonstrations against government policies.

"Journalists covering the massive protests in Brazil are performing a key democratic function by informing Brazilian citizens about events of acute public interest," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas. "Both police and protesters must respect their work and allow them to continue without interference. Authorities should guarantee the safety of all journalists covering the protests and should thoroughly investigate any attacks."
At least 15 journalists reported being attacked on June 13 as military police cracked down on protesters in São Paulo, according to the local association of investigative reporters ABRAJI. Two reported being hit in the eye with rubber bullets fired by police. News accounts said that both Giuliana Vallone, a reporter for Folha de S. Paulo, and Sérgio Andrade da Silva, a photographer for Futura Press agency, were hospitalized for their eye injuries.
Pedro Vedova, a reporter for GloboNews, said he had been hit in the head by a rubber bullet fired by police while covering protests in the city of Rio de Janeiro on June 20, according to news reports. He sought treatment at a local hospital for a forehead wound, the reports said. A security officer on June 19 punched and kicked Vladimir Platonow, a reporter for Agência Brasil, at a bus terminal in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, where he was documenting protesters fleeing from police, according to news reports. Platonow was not hospitalized for any injuries. A spokesman for the bus terminal said the assailant was not affiliated with the company.
Military police also detained at least five journalists covering the protests. ABRAJI reportedthat Piero Locatelli, a reporter for Carta Capital magazine, and Fernando Borges, a photographer for Terra, were briefly detained on June 13, and Leandro Machado, a reporter for the national daily Folha de S.Paulo, and Leandro Morais, a photographer for the news website Universo Online, were briefly detained on June 11. News accounts reported that Pedro Ribeiro Nogueira, a reporter for the website Portal Aprendiz who had been detained on June 11, was released after being held two days.
Journalists, particularly those working for major TV networks including Globo, have also been targeted by protesters who have criticized their coverage of events. News accounts reportedthat on June 17, Caco Barcellos, a reporter for Globo, was surrounded by protesters in São Paulo who prevented him from covering the demonstration. On June 13, protesters threw rocks at Vandrey Pereira, also a reporter for Globo, forcing the journalist to leave the protest, news reports said.
Newsreports said that on June 20, protesters set fire to the vehicles of the TV networks SBT in Rio de Janeiro city and TV Bandeirantes in the city of Natal, and that on June 18, protesters threw vinegar in the face of Rita Lisauskas, reporter for TV Bandeirantes. The accounts did not report serious injuries. News reports also said that protesters set fire to a van belonging to the TV network Record on June 18 in São Paulo.
A spike in lethal violence over the past two years has made Brazil one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world, according to CPJ research. In 2013, Brazil was the 10th worst country in CPJ's Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are murdered regularly and the killers go free. The country was also named to CPJ's Risk List, which identified 10 places where press freedom suffered in 2012.

• For more data on Brazil, visit CPJ's Brazil page here.

Iran ( Sixteen arrested for celebrating in streets - Iran’s victory against South Korea ) World Cup Soccer

Posted on: 22nd June,

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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.”

Iran ( Four Christians have been jailed for 4 years -For advertising Christianity ) Omg

Iranian regime jails four Christian for practising their religion

 

Published on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:4

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.

Iran ( Two journalists placed in Evin Prison - After government corruption article ) No charge

Two imprisoned journalists detained without charge

Posted on: 15th June, 2013

 

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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.

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