Jamaica ( transgender teen murdered by mob - Shot ,beaten ,stabbed and run over by car )

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
By age 16, the teenager was dead — beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.

"When I saw Dwayne's body, I started shaking and crying," said Khloe, one of three transgender friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like many transgender and gay people in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.
"It was horrible. It was so, so painful to see him like that."
International advocacy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile country in the Western Hemisphere for gay and transgender people. After two prominent gay rights activists were murdered, a researcher with the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch in 2006 called the environment in Jamaica for such groups "the worst any of us has ever seen."

Chicago ( Man Tells Police he has Loaded Gun up his Butt )

Published at 5:13 pm EST, August 9, 2013

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Chicago police had the awkward and unpleasant task of removing a loaded gun from the buttocks of a man they pulled over.
Police where in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood investigating an incident in which witnesses say a man in a black car fired at least two shots during a quarrel with a group of men.
Officers spotted a vehicle matching the witnesses’ description later that night and saw two men in the car with their seats reclined, attempted to hide form view.
When officers approached the vehicle, Marco Alvarado, 20, was in the driver’s seat. Officers found two open cans of beer in the car and asked the two men to step out of the car. A closer look in the vehicle did not turn up a gun, but Alvarado later admitted he had hidden a loaded gun in his buttocks.
The police report sates Alvarado said, “I’m gonna be real with you. I have a gun in my a**.”
Officers recovered a .22 caliber blue steel revolver with two live rounds placed “between his buttocks,” the the gun’s serial number filed away.
Alvarado later admitted he was the man who fired the rounds earlier in the evening.
On Thursday, the Latin Kings member was held on $20,000 bail and charged with four counts of possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number.
Alvarado told police he fired three times into the air but said he only did so because his friend was being attacked.

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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.