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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Mexico City ( Crime Reporter Found Dead in Southern Mexico )
MEXICO CITY – Mexican journalist Alberto Lopez Bello, who covered the police beat for the largest newspaper in the southern state of Oaxaca, was found dead on Wednesday, authorities said.The discovery of two bodies near the village of Trinidad de Viguera was reported at around 7:00 a.m., the state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
Another person identified as Arturo Alejandro Franco was found slain next to the El Imparcial reporter.
The newspaper lamented and condemned Lopez Bello’s death in a statement on its Web site.
El Imparcial urged authorities to clear up the homicides, saying they demonstrate how vulnerable reporters are “in their daily work of promptly and truthfully informing the citizenry.”
Oaxaca Gov. Gabino Cue instructed state Attorney General Manuel de Jesus Lopez to treat the killing of the reporter as a high-impact crime and channel the case to a special unit for crimes against journalists.
Detectives attached to the Oaxaca AG’s office and personnel from the state’s Public Safety Department traveled to the crime scene to begin their investigation.
Mexico, where more than 80 media professionals have been slain since 2000, is the world’s second deadliest country for journalists, according to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders. EFE
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
JAPAN ( Police bust home delivery sex ring - Using overweight women " Max Body " )
TOKYO —
Japanese police have arrested the alleged ringleader of a sex home-delivery service specialising in women weighing up to 150 kilograms, a spokesman said.Keiko Saito, 41, and one of her employees are suspected of conspiring to run a prostitution business under the name “Makkusu Bodi” (Max Body), which boasted that it catered for men who like “explosive boobs and bums”, police said.
Saito is alleged to have had about 30 overweight women working for her, including one who tipped the scales at more than 150 kilograms, Jiji Press reported.
Police say punters in Tokyo could telephone to request a visit in their home or hotel room, a service called “deri-heru” (delivery health) that is widespread in Japan, where it is illegal to sell penetrative sex.
Saito, who is believed to have earned about 400 million yen over three years, had previously worked as a prostitute, Jiji said. She began her business because she believed larger women were popular with customers, the agency added.
Iran News ( Jailed labor activist Reza Shahabi being denied medication while in prison )
17 July 2013
Keywords : Political Prisoners
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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Jailed labor activist Reza Shahabi’s health is plunging behind bars as prison officials refuse to grant furlough for his medical needs. The treasurer of Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) has said he will resort to going on hunger strike in protest.
Mahmoud Salehi, labor activist and spokesperson for Committee to Defend Reza Shahabi in Iran, said in an interview with CHRR, “Mr. Reza Shahabi has been in very poor health since his return behind bars from furlough. He is in excruciating pain in his neck area, suffers from a cervical and spine injury, and has dangerous fluctuations in his blood pressure. Despite all of this, he has not been seen by a specialist physician while behind bars. He and his family have made numerous requests for him to be transferred to a hospital to receive necessary care, but to no avail. The officials just take him to the Evin prison infirmary as an outpatient and give him pain medication.”
Salehi was asked about the types of pain medication that are administered to Reza Shahabi behind bars. “The physicians employed in the infirmaries of Iran’s prisons are general practitioners. Since most prisoners are non-political, the GP’s just to the minimum needed to get the prisoners out of the infirmary and there is no separation of political or criminal prisoners. They usually just give the prisoners pain killers and sleeping pills because they are not specialists and don’t have access to any other type of medication.”
Mahmoud Salehi, labor activist and former political prisoner, made a request that Reza Shahabi be transferred to a hospital with specialized care and not be taken to a public facility that is not capable of handling Shahabi’s medical needs.
CHRR asked the spokesperson for Committee to Defend Reza Shahabi about the possibility of another hunger strike. “We have made a request to Mr. Shahabi that he refrain from going on another hunger strike. However we cannot make decisions for a prisoner because we are free and not behind bars; we cannot fully know the circumstances that the prisoner is faced with in prison. Only the prisoner profoundly suffers the experience, faces the difficulties and endures the hardships.”
In ending Mahmoud Salehi while expressing his deep worry for Reza Shahabi said, “At the very least I hope a new case file is not generated for Mr. Shahabi with the excuse that he had a leave of absence, so that he can finally receive his crucial medical care after the end of his prison term in [late March 2014].
Egypt ( Seven Killed in Egypt Clashes -261 others injured )
CAIRO – Seven people were killed and 261 others injured overnight amid protests in this capital by tens of thousands of supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, Egyptian state television said Tuesday.Four of the fatalities occurred in Al-Nahda Square, near the campus of the University of Cairo, where Morsi partisans clashed with neighborhood residents, state news agency Mena said.
Attempts by police to break up pro-Morsi demonstrations in Ramses Square and on Oct. 6th Bridge left two people dead and 134 injured.
More than 400 people were arrested in connection with the incident in Ramses Square, a police source told Efe.
Street vendors and unknown assailants attacked a march by Morsi supporters in the vicinity of Giza Square, according to Mena.
Monday’s protests came a week after 51 Morsi partisans died in a confrontation with security forces in front of Republican Guard headquarters, where Islamists suspected the ousted president was being held.
The Egyptian military removed Morsi on July 3, following days of massive anti-government protests.
Critics accused Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement of doing little to address poverty and Egypt’s struggling economy, of failing to advance the goals of the 2011 revolution that forced out strongman Hosni Mubarak and of seeking to monopolize power. EFE
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