DENVER ( ICE has released the mother of 3 U.S born children - They have Dropped Deportation of Mexican Activist )

DENVER – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have released Jeanette Vizguerra, a Mexican activist living in Colorado, supporters of her 4-year-long battle against deportation said Friday.

This is an “unexpected occurrence,” Jordan Garcia, a director of the American Friends Service Committee’s Colorado Immigrant Rights Program, said.

He said ICE officials were known to be reviewing the plea entered by Vizguerra’s attorneys to cancel the deportation order.

Garcia described as “final” the federal agency’s decision not to deport Vizguerra, who has lived in the United States for 15 years and has three U.S.-born children.

For Garcia, the massive mobilization of the AFSC, the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, the Rights for All organization and the local affiliate of the Service Employees International Union helped bring about the canceling of the deportation.

In 2009, Vizguerra was arrested for driving without a license. Later investigations determined that she was not in the country legally and had used documents that did not belong to her to get work, though she had begun procedures to regularize her status.

ICE decided to deport her. In 2011, after a march through downtown Denver in favor of Vizguerra, the deportation was postponed, though a federal judge refused to close the case.

Without waiting for a final verdict, Vizguerra traveled to Mexico in 2012 to attend her mother’s funeral. Though she tried to stay in her native country, she was unable to find work, so she decided to return to the United States last April.

In doing so, she was detained for several days in El Paso, Texas, but was then released and returned to Denver.

Later, on July 24, Vizguerra was arrested upon entering a meeting with ICE, and on Aug. 5 her final appeal to avoid deportation was denied. EFE

BEIJING ( Chinese Activist Makes Video in Jail - human rights )

BEIJING – A prominent human rights and transparency activist jailed last month recorded and circulated a video urging his fellow Chinese to “stand up” for their beliefs.

In the roughly minute-long clip, Xu Zhiyong, handcuffed behind bars and wearing orange prison garb, urges people to unite so they can build “a China with freedom, justice and love.”

The video, which can be viewed on the Web site of the South China Morning Post or on YouTube, had to be shot by some attorney who could visit Xu, the newspaper said.

Xu is one of the founders of the Gongmen movement, which asks senior officials to disclose their assets and demands that the government respect the rights established in China’s constitution.

After spending two months under house arrest, Xu was taken into custody in mid-July on charges of trying to promote a public disturbance.

“Urging people to be citizens, and to comply with the rights and obligations of citizens, to demand equal rights in education and the reform of access to university, and to ask the authorities to be transparent about their activities: those are the three crimes I have committed in these absurd times,” Xu says in the video shot inside Detention Center No. 3 in Beijing.

As of Thursday, nearly 2,700 people had signed a petition for Xu’s release, which has also been requested by the government of the United States.

The promoter of the petition, veteran journalist Xiao Shu, was also arrested.

These detentions are added to the dozen carried out to date this year against Gongmen activists. EFE

Iran ( Student activist of Tehran university sentenced to 4 years in prison )

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HRANA News Agency – Ghasem Ahmadi, the Kurdish journalist has been sentenced to four years in prison by branch 1 of the Mahabad revolutionary court. 

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ghasem Ahmadi the Kurdish journalist was arrested by intelligence agents on March 6, 2013 in Mahabad and it was coincide with Kurdpoor brothers arresting. He was under arrest for 16 days and was freed temporarily on a 50 million tomans bail.

This journalist was a student activist and as well the editor in chief of student publication called Rozhaf which was publishing in Tehran university.

It is worth mentioning that this publication was banned to publish on April 9, 2011 by the cultural department of Tehran university.

Tucson AZ ( Tucson mom who fed baby feces sentenced to 13 years in prison )

 Posted: Aug 9, 2013 12:41 PM by Sam Salzwedel
Updated: Aug 9, 2013 12:43 PM     

 

     

Aug. 9: UPDATE - The Tucson woman who was convicted of intentionally making her child sick was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday.
Blanco Montaño,23, will be credited with 72 days she has already served in jail.
Hospital staff alerted Child Protective Services of her 7-month-old's inability to get over an illness. Doctors suspected Montaño of intentionall making her ill by feeding her feces. It's a disorder known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
May 31: UPDATE - Montaño was found guilty of the charges Friday.

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May 23: TUCSON - The trial began for a mother accused of possibly making her 7-month-old daughter sick using feces.
"The doctors believe that Blanca is giving her daughter something to make her sick," according to an Interim Complaint by Tucson Police. "They indicated that ingestion of feces could cause the infections."
Opening arguments in the trial of Blanca Montaño started Wednesday.
Prosecutors say it is a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. That means she made up an illness in somebody else to get attention, even though they say she created a real illness. They believe she wanted the attention of the girl's father.
Dr. Hari Ghuman is a clinical psychiatry professor at the University of Arizona. He just learned about the case and has nothing to do with the trial. He said the condition is real.
"It's not that common," he said, "but we see one child in 200,000 cases. But it can be from mild to very severe, and you usually hear one or two cases in the news every year."
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is usually committed by young mothers, but sometimes by fathers, according to Ghuman.

Iran News ( Closed-circuit cameras in girls' schools are being installed - To many women are defying officers in public ) Omg

NCRI - The Iranian mullahs are installing closed-circuit cameras in girls' schools across the country in the latest in a wave of suppressive measures against women in the regime.
The move comes after plans by the Science Ministry to begin the same-sex segregation of universities across the country.

The state-run Qanoun newspaper wrote: "The issue of installing cameras in girls’ schools has been under discussion for several years.
"However, with the new academic year beginning, this plan will be implemented widely, especially in private schools, which has raised objections from parents.
"The member of the Education and Research Commission in parliament, Abulqasem Khosravi, has stated regarding the installation of the cameras in schools that there is no particular law or bill issued for this plan, but that it comes under the regulations of the Schools’ Education bureau.
"Installing cameras in girls' schools has become a pervasive process, and currently many girls’ schools in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Torbat and Haidarieh are monitoring students with these cameras.”
One unnamed student told the paper: "They control us in almost every part of the school with the cameras, in the cafeteria, the restroom, the hallway and the school yard."
Meanwhile, the financial and executive deputy of the Science Ministry has announced the creation of 13 segregated universities across the country, ISNA news agency reported.
Ali Akbar Motakan claimed that the establishment of women-only universities was a positive measure of the previous government, adding: "It is very sad that some people say the policy of the Science Ministry is based on segregation. There are segregated universities all over the world."
The measures have prompted protests and public attacks on anti-vice police by Iranian women in recent weeks, prompting a special session in the parliament was held to discuss ways to counter the defiance.
The National Security and Foreign Affairs Commission and Cultural Commission as well as Tehran's police and Basij paramilitary held the urgent meeting on July 23 after three incidents of women defying female officers in public.
The committee said it discussed new ways to protect those who 'promote virtue and prevent vice' on the streets of Iran

Phoenix Az ( Detention Officer For Sheriff Joe Arpaio - Ambushed and Killed outside his house )

PHOENIX (AP) — A detention officer with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office died Thursday after being shot in the driveway of his Arizona home while he prepared to head to work, police said.
Jorge Vargas, 27, was rushed to a hospital after the 4 a.m. attack and died a short time later, Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said.
No one was in custody and there was no information on a motive.
"It's really a whodunit," Crump said, adding that investigators are looking into whether the shooting was connected to the victim's job.

"Anytime we have a homicide and the suspect is unknown, we start with our victim," Crump said. "But we can't rule out a random act."
Vargas was an eight-year veteran who worked for the Sheriff's Office Custody Support Bureau in the jail's food factory, but he often came into contact with inmates, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
He wouldn't speculate about whether Vargas' killing may have been related to his work, but said his office was assisting Phoenix police in the investigation, including gathering intelligence from the jails.
"I won't call it an assassination or an execution," the sheriff said. "Right now, I'll call it a murder."
Arpaio did, however, have a warning for the killer.
"Watch out," he said. "We're ready for battle and we're going to take whatever action we need."
Vargas was wearing his uniform that identified him as a Sheriff's Office employee at the time of the attack and was in his driveway working on his car when he was shot.

A man was seen running from the scene after neighbors heard shots and found the critically wounded officer in his driveway.

Tactical teams and K-9 units searched the area, but so far police had no suspects.
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Associated Press writer Paul Davenport contributed to this report.

Long Beach ( Police shoot and kill man first - And ask questions later )

Man Shot Dead By Police While Watering Neighbor’s Lawn If you see something, say some

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