Iran News ( Female student activist arrested - Human rights reporter sent to Evin prison )

27 July 2013

Student activist Maryam Shafipour arrested

Keywords : Political Prisoners

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Maryam Shafipour, student activist banned from continuing her education has been transferred to Evin prison.

According to CHRR, today July 27th, Maryam Shafipour was detained after she appeared at Branch 2 of Shahid Moghaddas Court per order of a summons, and was transferred behind bars at Evin prison.

Maryam Shafipour is a women’s rights campaigner and student activist who in the past served as a member of the Central Council of the Critics Association of Qazvin University, and was staff at Female Students for Karoubi Presidential Campaign. She was previously detained in 2010 due to her work as an activist and was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence by the Qazvin Revolutionary Court

San Diego ( Mother seeks Justice - She feels Prison Guards Killed her son in a " Bad Shooting " ) Susanville Prison

 

Christopher A. Sanchez

I was contacted by " sonjia viruegas "  the mother of  Christopher Sanchez on my blog . She stated , the "California Department of Corrections " refuses to give her a copy of the incident report regarding her sons shooting death.
She feels the Guards at Susanville State Prison just fired into a crowd killing her son and there is no evidence that he was the inmate stabbing the victim.
Ms. Viruegas  said that the online autopsy report keeps changing about how her son died or " was shot in the head " ?

She feels the department is trying to cover up a bad " shooting " by the Tower Guard . If the department releases the recorded camera footage of the incident it would clear up this issue .

 

 

 

A 23-year-old San Diego man who was fatally shot by prison guards while he was attacking another inmate was identified Tuesday as convicted murderer Christopher A. Sanchez, prison officials said.

Sanchez was serving a sentence of 85 years to life in prison for the 2009 murder of Marcella Peraza at an Encanto birthday party. He was also convicted of attempted murder for wounding a 19-year-old man.

He had fought with others outside the party, then later fired shots into a residential street, striking the victims.

Sanchez was serving time at High Desert State Prison in Susanville when he and another inmate attacked a third on Friday morning, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The victim was stabbed with an improvised weapon.

Sanchez and his accomplice ignored numerous orders from correctional officers to stop, and one guard fired at Sanchez, prison officials said.

The 29-year-old victim suffered numerous stab wounds and injuries to his head. The other attacker was not wounded. Authorities have not released their names.

Iran News ( Human Rights Reporter vanished - arrested a month ago his whereabouts unknown ) ?

One month with no news of jailed journalist Ahmad Asgari

Keywords : Political Prisoners

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Ahmad Asgari, journalist, poet, and student activist remains incommunicado with no precise information about his Human Rights Reporters whereabouts one month after his arrest.

According to CHRR, Ahmad Asgari was detained by Security agents at Tehran’s Fadak Park on June 20 and transferred to an undisclosed location. During the past month he has been banned from his legal right to visitations and there is no information about his physical condition.

Despite the fact that the journalist is inflicted with neurological ailments and is epileptic, his needed medication has not been provided to him. During the past weeks Asgari has been put under intense harassment by interrogators in their attempt to build a case against the journalist. He has been pressured to accept charges of having relations with foreign organizations, and possibly Moharebeh (enmity with God).

Ahmad Asgari’s articles have been published in Karoon, Mardom Salari and Etemad newspapers, along with several websites focused on political and economic issues. Asgari is a university student at Azad University on his last year studying international relations. He was first arrested in January 2010, and released on bail after being held for 3 months. He was arrested again on June 14, 2013 as he was taking pictures of the voting areas – he was released a few hours later after his camera and mobile phone were confiscated. He was actively pursuing information about political prisoner Mohsen Rahmani during the time of his third arrest on June 20. Asgari remains incommunicado and his condition is unknown since the time of his last arrest

EGYPT ( Five more people killed in a clash on Friday -Tahrir Square )

CAIRO – Five people were killed and scores hurt on Friday in confrontations between supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who was pushed out July 3 in a military coup.

The worst of the violence unfolded around a mosque in central Alexandria, where clashes left five dead and 147 injured.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – birthplace of the February 2011 revolution that toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak – in response to a call from Egypt’s armed forces chief for citizens to take to the streets in support of the security forces.

Friday evening marked the end of the 48 hours Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave Egyptians “to join the ranks of the homeland” or prepare to see the military adopt an unspecified new approach to dealing with protests.

The flag-waving crowd in Tahrir Square cheered the news that a judge ordered Morsi jailed on suspicion of various offenses, including murder.

The deposed president is thought to be in military custody.

Thousands of Islamists congregated in Cairo’s Nasr City neighborhood to express support for Morsi and listen to an address by influential cleric Safwat al-Hijazi, who is wanted on allegations of involvement in violent acts.

Al-Hijazi told Efe he has no intention of surrendering to authorities and vowed the Islamists would continue their protest in Nasr City.

“We challenge them (the army) to come to kill us and dismantle the protest,” he said. “We will not kill and none of us will resist.”

Morsi won the presidency in a democratic election, but alienated many Egyptians by his failure to remedy the country’s economic woes and an agenda that was seen as too subservient to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The army forced him from office after days of large anti-government demonstrations. EFE

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Afghanistan ( 8 people killed in a suicide attack in Ghazni )

KABUL – Eight people, including a police commander, were killed and seven others wounded Friday in a suicide attack in the central province of Ghazni, Afghan news agency AIP said, citing officials.

The attack took place at 4:00 p.m. at the main market in Qarabagh district, the province’s deputy governor, Muhamad Ali Ahmadi, told AIP.

Qarabagh police chief Daulat Khan was the target, Ahmadi said.

“The suicide (attacker) was riding a motorcycle and detonated the explosive charge when he was next to Daulat Khan. Khan, his four guards and three civilians died,” the deputy governor said.

All seven of the wounded are civilians.

Violence continues to rage in Afghanistan nearly a dozen years after the U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force is scheduled to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. EFE

Pakistan ( 39 people killed in a bombing in a crowded market )

ISLAMABAD – Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 100 others wounded Friday when two bombs were detonated at a crowded market in the northwestern town of Parachinar, Pakistan’s Dawn television reported, citing official sources.

The bombs, which were placed at opposite ends of the market, went off within an interval of around 4 minutes.

Parachinar is the seat of Kurram, one of the seven Tribal Agencies located along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

The attack came as the market was packed with people shopping for food to prepare the “iftar” meal that breaks the daytime fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.

Never fully under the control of Islamabad, the Tribal Agencies have become a haven for the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda members and other Muslim militants.

The tribal region’s substantial population of Shi’ite Muslims is frequently the target of sectarian attacks by fundamentalist followers of the majority Sunni strand of Islam. EFE