Mexico Juarez ( Cartel members -Stop Ambulance and pull out and abduct 4 wounded people )

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A group of suspected cartel hit men intercepted an ambulance in northern Mexico and abducted four people who had been wounded in a shootout, authorities said.

The four patients, who had been wounded in a firefight pitting two groups of gunmen in the town of Guadalupe y Calvo, were being rushed to a hospital when they were forced off the ambulance Thursday night in the town of Parral and taken away in an SUV, said Carlos Gonzalez, spokesman for the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office.

In a separate incident, two men who were traveling in an SUV on the road leading to Guadalupe y Calvo were wounded early Friday when armed men who had set up an illegal checkpoint fired at them for not stopping.

One of the victims was shot in the head, while the other was wounded in the hip, state authorities said in a press release.

On June 11, a candidate for mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo was kidnapped and killed by a group of gunmen, while in 2010 assailants shot and killed the incumbent mayor of that town, located in the southeastern part of Chihuahua.

Chihuahua has been one of the Mexican states hardest hit in recent years by organized crime-related violence.

Iran ( Student told to convert to Islam and continue your study or flee to another country )

A Bahai student has been deprived of studying in the university

Posted on: 12th July, 2013

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HRANA News Agency – Ayda Bandi the Baha’i citizen and the student of English literature in Shiraz PNU has been deprived of studying.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the university officials asked this Baha’i citizen to be converted into Islam or flee the country as the other Baha’is.

She explains the story due to the following letter she sent to HRANA:

The following text is an explanation of since starting the second semester of English literature in Shiraz PNU:

“I attended the classes after electronic registration and picking units and The time of registering in person arrived. I prepared all the required documents but when I handed over the documents I left the religion check box empty that immediately the responsible employee asked me to fill the check box and I wrote Baha’i. In this step of registeration I was supposed to give the form signed and stamped by the responsible employee to the next employee but she took the form and said “No worry, go and complete the other steps, this paper will be remained here and tell the next responsible that Mrs. … has this paper.”

I completed the registration steps as the others and got my student ID card.

Two days later I got a phone call around 8:30 A.M., “We are calling from PNU, your dossier has problem and go to Tehran for solving the issue.”

I asked what kind of problem it is but they did not answer me. The same day I had class and I went earlier to find out at least who called me. I went to the office of Dr. Ramezani the head of the university. They did not give visit permission. His secretary told me to write a letter. I wrote and I was waiting for two hours in front of his office. Therefore I wrote in the end of the letter that “Mr. Mahbodi please follow up” and I mentioned that I do not know what is the problem of my dossier.

I met Mr. Mahbodi the responsible employee for registrations and he wrote “I do not know what is the problem but there is no study contuation premit for her until it is not checked with Mr. Zare”. I brought the letter back to the head of the university but again I got no answer until it became the lunch time and he came out of his room and had no more choice rather than hearing what I say; I said the story and he took my phone number to contact me.

The same day in the afternoon they called me from university and said that we are following up and actually we do not know who called you but we will call you tomorrow for sure. But they did not call me until I called back after one week. Because it was close to the exams and I was worry that maybe they will not issue the exams’ entrance permission.

Due to the call I found the one who called me and it was the director of university education section and told me we will not give you any explanations via phone, come here.

I went and they told me stay back and put your bag in the end of the room! Put your cellphone into your bag! Perhaps they were worry from recording their voice or even suicide attack!

Finally I have been told that you know what your problem is. I said I know what is my issue but not the problem. -He was talking very very low that I had to ask continuously WHAT? As someone else was supposed to hear their voice that should not!

He told me “convert to Islam and continue your study or flee such as the other Baha’is and continue your studies abroad. Also I am sorry that you cannot study here, but I cannot do anything for you.” Why I cannot be here? What’s my faith business with my study? He said “it is the law. Even with going to Tehran nothing will change. Nowhere could solve your problem.” I returned home and checked the university website, I could not log in etc.”

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Mexico City ( U.S. government today issued a travel warning to Mexico - Obama's staff not allowed in Mexico )

Saturday, July 13, 2013 |

MEXICO CITY-The U.S. government today issued a travel warning to Mexico to the safety issue due to the activity of transnational crime gangs, which star in a "violent struggle for control of drug trafficking routes."
The State Department issued a travel warning, which replaces the one issued on November 20, 2012 and imposes additional restrictions on the travel of staff of the Barack Obama in Mexico.
"Transnational criminal organizations are involved in a violent struggle to control drug trafficking routes and other criminal activity. The crime and violence are serious problems and can occur anywhere, "says the alert.
However, it also notes that the government of Mexico makes a "considerable effort" to protect U.S. citizens and other visitors to major tourist destinations.
Even he says that "there is evidence that transnational criminal organizations target their attacks on American visitors and residents based on their nationality."
Last year, we see on the note, more than 20 million Americans visited Mexico.
However, it is emphasized that the Americans have been victims of crimes such as murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, auto theft and robbery on highways.
Although most of the victims are members of the drug cartels also innocent people have died, according to the Department of State.
The number of Americans who have died in Mexico and have been reported to the Department of State was 113 in 2011 and 71 last year, according to the note, which provides a breakdown of the security situation throughout the country.

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Iran ( Female Activist released on bail from prison - Samira Razzaghi top doctor and radiation and chemotherapy student )

Samira Razzaghi, the student activist has been released

Posted on: 12th July, 2013

 

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HRANA News Agency – Samira Razzaghi the top doctor and radiation and chemotherapy student of Shiraz medical since university has been released on the bail from the intelligence of Shiraz.

According to a report by Nedaye Sabze Azadi, she had been arrested on June 26, 2013. She managed to pass the proficiency exam in 2010 but Dr. Mohammad Hadi Imaniye, the president of the medical since university of Shiraz prevented her from being registered for 4 months with no explanation, who was finally forced to by the order of Supreme Justice Court.

Samira Razzaghi who was in the last month of her studies has been chosen for several times as the top student during. She was also the editor of some students’ magazines and a member of the Islamic Association of the students of medical since university before it was confiscated by the authorities.

Iran News ( Female Human Rights Blogger arrested - Taken to Evin Prison No Charge yet ? ) Fariba Pazhuh

 Posted on: 12th July 2013

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HRANA News Agency – Fariba Pazhuh, the reformer journalist has been arrested in her home yesterday morning. She was transferred to Evin prison.

According to a report by Omid, Fariba Pazhuh was released on the bail after being under arrest for 124 days in 2009.

She was sentenced to one year of prison which was changed to one year of suspended prison by the branch 54 of Tehran appeal court.

There is no report of the reason of this arrest yet.

Mexico City ( Her father was KILLED running for Mayor - She takes his place and WINS ) Woo Hoo

Daughter of Murdered Mayoral Candidate Wins Election

MEXICO CITY – On the same day that she buried her father, Alma Leticia Reyes decided that she would follow in his footsteps and continue his candidacy for mayor of a Mexican town herself, and now – after winning the election – she will have the chance to carry out the plans that he intended to implement in office.

“I’m very happy that the majority supported us. They know it’s going to be a three-year period of a lot of work and fulfilling the commitments my father had made,” the 23-year-old, who graduated with a degree in elementary education with plans to be a teacher, told Efe.

On July 2, the body of Ricardo Reyes, Alma’s father, was found bearing bullet wounds a few hours after he had been kidnapped during a funeral.

He was a candidate in Sunday’s balloting for the leftist Citizens’ Movement for the mayorship of the town of Tayoltita, with 12,000 residents, in the central state of Durango.

“It was difficult from the day I decided (to run) because it was the day of my father’s burial and the close of the campaign. It was a very complicated moment when I was saying goodbye and on the same day I had to replace him” in the campaign, the young mayor-elect said.

Regarding the investigation into her father’s killing, Alma said that so far there is one person in custody but she is going to leave the matter in the hands of the authorities.

Although the young woman had not had any political aspirations before this, she said that she helped her father in his campaign and that since there was no campaign budget they devoted themselves to working directly in the neighborhoods organizing various activities.

Among the plans her father had and which now she wants to bring to fruition was to support education, have a paved road built – “because from Durango to here it’s just a dirt road” – and do something about the fact that “there’s not enough water.”

In addition, she plans to work to have more police officers assigned to the municipality, given that currently there are only a few and they focus mainly on administrative tasks, she said.

According to how Alma described her father, who had already been mayor before and who was also involved with business, “he was not a politician, but rather he liked to help people.”

She added that he never commented on controversial issues such as drug trafficking, and so she does not understand why he was killed.

“Being a candidate could be a political matter, because he had no problems with anyone, no fights or anything,” she said. EFE