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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Iran Tehran ( Cyber police - Close down 67 Internet cafes in Tehran in a Week to control people ) ?
NCRI - The Iranian regime's Cyber Police have shut down 67 Internet cafes in Tehran in a week as the regime tightens its control over people's freedom online.
Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedinia said 352 cafés were inspected in the latest draconian clampdown on the Internet.
He told the state-run news INSA agency: "According to a plan implemented during the past week, agents in charge of supervision of public places in Tehran inspected 352 Internet Cafés and as a result 67 were shut down due to violations by the owners and a number of others received a warnings of closure.
"Many internet cafes are trying to damage young people and families by offering illegal services and it is the responsibility of police to deal with the violators.
"Following repeated violations by various businesses and many cases prepared by the cyber-police in Tehran, a plan for dealing with illegal Internet cafes and those violating law has been implemented.
Sajedinia did not elaborate that what those violations has been.
The plan to set up a Cyber Police division was announced in 2009 by country's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam to counter 'internet crimes', and the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA) was founded in January 2011.
Ahmadi-Moqaddam said at the time: "The Cyber Police will tackle anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used Internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests."
In January 2012, the Cyber Police issued new guidelines for Internet cafés, requiring users to provide personal information that would be kept by café owners for six months, as well as a record of the websites they visited.
The rules also require café owners to install closed-circuit television cameras and maintain the recordings for six months.
Meanwhile, the use of VPNs and other technology that allows users to circumvent internet blocking is also forbidden in internet cafés.
Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedinia said 352 cafés were inspected in the latest draconian clampdown on the Internet.
He told the state-run news INSA agency: "According to a plan implemented during the past week, agents in charge of supervision of public places in Tehran inspected 352 Internet Cafés and as a result 67 were shut down due to violations by the owners and a number of others received a warnings of closure.
"Many internet cafes are trying to damage young people and families by offering illegal services and it is the responsibility of police to deal with the violators.
"Following repeated violations by various businesses and many cases prepared by the cyber-police in Tehran, a plan for dealing with illegal Internet cafes and those violating law has been implemented.
Sajedinia did not elaborate that what those violations has been.
The plan to set up a Cyber Police division was announced in 2009 by country's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam to counter 'internet crimes', and the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA) was founded in January 2011.
Ahmadi-Moqaddam said at the time: "The Cyber Police will tackle anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used Internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests."
In January 2012, the Cyber Police issued new guidelines for Internet cafés, requiring users to provide personal information that would be kept by café owners for six months, as well as a record of the websites they visited.
The rules also require café owners to install closed-circuit television cameras and maintain the recordings for six months.
Meanwhile, the use of VPNs and other technology that allows users to circumvent internet blocking is also forbidden in internet cafés.
Iran News ( Female student activist arrested - Human rights reporter sent to Evin prison )
27 July 2013
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.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Iran News ( Human Rights Reporter vanished - arrested a month ago his whereabouts unknown ) ?
One month with no news of jailed journalist Ahmad Asgari
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Keywords : Political Prisoners
فارسى
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
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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