Riot Police ( A riot police officer caught using - excessive force in a riot ) Human rights violation

Pakistan ( Least 6 Dead in U.S. Drone Strike in Pakistan )

ISLAMABAD – At least six suspected insurgents died in a U.S. drone strike against a building in a tribal area of North Waziristan, a Pakistani official told Efe on Monday.

“The home, which was hit by two missiles, belonged to a group of foreign paramilitaries and those who died were not Pakistanis,” regional administrator Rehman Sha said by telephone from Peshawar.

The attack occurred late Sunday in the area of Data Khel, he said.

The missile hit the home as the occupants were sharing the “iftar” meal that breaks the daytime fast practiced by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, a Data Khel resident told Geo television.

Officials cited by Geo said the strike took place in the Shawal Valley near the porous Afghan border and is often used by insurgents, “especially foreigners,” as a summer refuge.

North Waziristan is often the scene of U.S. drone attacks.

This year there have been some 15 attacks that have killed close to 100 people, most of them identified by authorities as suspected insurgents.

A confidential Pakistani government report published last week by the Bureau for Investigative Journalism found that of 746 people killed by drones between 2006-2009, at least 147 “are clearly stated to be civilian victims, 94 of those are said to be children.”

The death of civilians is one of the main sore points between Islamabad and Washington.

Despite their public criticism of drones, Pakistani authorities are suspected to have tacitly accepted their use. EFE

Mexico ( 4 people killed at Pacific resort city of Acapulco - Among the dead a 34 yr old pregnant woman )

Gunmen Kill 4 Members of Family Outside Mexican Pacific Resort City

MEXICO CITY – Four members of a family were gunned down over the weekend outside the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco by unidentified individuals, media reports said.

A man shot twice in the chest is listed in serious condition following Sunday’s shooting, the Novedades de Acapulco newspaper reported.

One of the dead is a 34-year-old woman who was six months’ pregnant, the daily said, adding that the motive for the killings has not been determined.

The murders occurred in Ampliacion Lazaro Cardenas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Acapulco.

The Citizens Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice said in a report issued in February that Acapulco was the world’s second most violent city, with 142 homicides per 100,000 residents, trailing only San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Acapulco, one of Mexico’s most famous tourist destinations, has been plagued by drug-related violence in recent years. EFE

Police stop ( Female kicks cop - Cop kicks female back in head ) see video

LONDON ( A British coroner has asked police to investigate further - In womans Suicide )

                   

London: A British coroner has asked police in the UK and India to investigate further into the suspected suicide of an Indian student, who was found dead in her campus accommodation at Liverpool University earlier this month.

Georgianna Thomsson, an 18-year-old aspiring astronaut from Chennai, was found hanging in her room at Melville Grove on the university campus.

"There were various notes left within the accommodation. Some of those notes seemed to indicate intentional self-harm. However, there were other notes which led me to direct there be investigations not just here, but also in Chennai," Liverpool Coroner Andre Rebello said.According to local media report, Thomsson - an aerospace engineering student at the university - had not been seen for several days before her body was found on July 12.

She had reportedly started missing lectures in February.

"She was last seen on July 3 by a domestic supervisor. Her room was checked daily and although she was never seen after this date, all of Georgianna's possessions were still in the room as if she was still living there.

On July 12, the domestic supervisor returned to the room to see if she had left and on entering found Georgianna hanging," the coroner added.

Local Merseyside Police have confirmed that officers are working to respond to the coroner's directions of a further probe to piece together the circumstances surrounding Georgianna's death.

Her father Seshiyan Thomsson, a policeman from Chennai, insists there is more than meets the eye.

'There is no fan, no iron rod in the room where she was found dead. How could she hang herself," he had said following a visit to the room where her body was found.

He has refused to accept his daughter's body until further investigations are carried out.

 

Iran ( Reports said that some 300 satellite dishes were collected and taken away from Citizens )

NCRI - The Iranian regime's repressive State Security Forces (Police) have raided people's houses in a district in the southern city of Shiraz confiscating their satellite dishes.
According to the reports received from Iran during the raid that took place in Pansad-Dastgah district of the city on Wednesday, June 24, many satellite dishes were collected.


Last week also, in a widespread attack to several villages in the province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, the security forces collected people’s satellite dishes. Reports said that some 300 dishes were collected and taken away.
The people however disregarded the measure and a few hours later almost all collected dishes were bought and installed again.
Since early July the Iranian regime's state security forces have intensified raids on homes in a number of provinces in Iran.
A regime official recently admitted that the regime had failed in its bid to ban people from watching satellite TV channels.

Despite a 1994 law making satellite dishes illegal, up to 70 per cent of families have them and their use is increasing, state-run TV network boss Fardin Ali-Khah said.
"Although their use is now forbidden, they can be seen everywhere. Statistics show that the use of satellite dishes has never declined, and currently there is 50 to 70 per cent use of satellite dishes in Iranian families."
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Pakistan ( 21 people have died from drinking clandestinely-made alcohol in Faisalabad )

ISLAMABAD – At least 21 people have died and 24 others are hospitalized after consuming clandestinely-made alcohol in Faisalabad, a city in Pakistan’s eastern Punyab province, police said Sunday.

The majority of the victims drank the alcohol on Thursday at a private party organized by a group of friends to celebrate the birth of a son, a police spokesman told the Express Tribune.

Four suspected distributors of the tainted alcohol have been arrested, the private Geo TV television network reported, citing officials.

The first deaths occurred Thursday night.

Many of the dead and sick are residents of Warispura, a Christian neighborhood in Faisalabad, although the majority of the names on the list of victims provided by the authorities are those of Muslims and only a few appear to be Christians, press reports said.

This type of tragedy occurs occasionally in Pakistan, which is officially an Islamic republic where the law permits only non-Muslims to buy and consume alcohol, and non-Muslims constitute only slightly more than 3 percent of the population.

However, a number of Muslims drink alcoholic beverages in private.