CUBA News ( Thousands Flock to Public “Cyber Points,” Cuba Says )

HAVANA – Cuba’s “cyber points,” which offer public Internet access, have attracted more than 100,000 paying customers in the last three months, government daily Juventud Rebelde said Thursday.

About 60 percent of clients accessed the World Wide Web, while the rest spent their time on Cuba’s domestic intranet or e-mailing, the newspaper said, citing data from state telecommunications monopoly Etecsa.

Very few Cubans have internet access at home, due to a combination of politically motivated restrictions and technical constraints.

Etecsa now operates 121 cyber points where customers pay anywhere from 60 cents to $4.50 to connect to the internet, fees that many Cubans regard as prohibit in a country where the average wage is less than $20 a month.

Cuba, a nation of 11.2 million people, had only 2.87 million internet users in 2012.

The Cuban government says its immediate priority is to expand access to the internet from public places and that widespread residential internet service is years away. EFE

Mexico ( Judges get in fight with each other - see video )

MEXICO CITY – A judge in the central Mexican state of Morelos hit a colleague during an argument over alleged irregularities in the appointment of acting judges, media reports said.

Justice Miguel Angel Falcon Vega struck the smaller Justice Ruben Jasso Diaz during a session of the Morelos Supreme Court, with the assault captured on a video that was posted on YouTube.

Other justices stepped in and stopped the attack, and Chief Justice Nadia Luz Maria Lara Chavez suspended the session.

The fight highlighted the split in the state’s high court between supporters of Falcon Vega and Lara Chavez’s backers over how justices are promoted and removed from their posts.

The Judiciary Council will investigate the incident and Jasso Diaz has the option to take legal action on his own, Lara Chavez said. EFE

Mexico ( The Asian Mafia vs. the Mexican Drug Cartel in Mexico ) Along the border

 Asian Mafia Vs Video "La Tuta" The head of the Knights Templar on the border "Tijuana and    Mexicali area's. The drug cartel wars of Mexico continue on with no signs of stopping.
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North Korea ( ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un -Executed in public for porn tapes )

The ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Hyon Song-wol was executed by firing squad for breaking North Korea’s law against pornography.

 

According to South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, she was one of famous performers who had sex on camera and later sold those tapes. Since some of other victims accused of the same crime, are said to have had Bibles, this fact, according to the newspaper, puts them in the position of the political dissidents.

Hyon and several other victims were arrested on August 17, the arrest followed by a public execution three days later.

All of them worked for Unhasu Orchestra and also performed as singers, musicians and dancers with the Wangjaesan Light Music Band.

Hyon met Kim ten years ago, when he was still single, and so was she, but the relationship was broken up by his father, Kim Jong-il

Interestingly enough, Kim's current wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before becoming dictator’s wife.

0They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," - The Chosun Ilbo reported with a reference to an informed source. According to another report, the family member of the executed performers were sent to prison camps, since, under the North Korea's law, they were guilty by association.

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Iran ( United States asks Iran for help in locating Missing FBI agent )

Iran ( Children arrested and told to confess for fathers crimes ) What ?

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NCRI - The two children of political prisoner Hassan Saremi have been arrested and placed in solitary confinement by the Iranian regime in a bid to force their father into making a false confession on live TV.
Hamed Saremi, 32, and Shahla Saremi, 28, were arrested by intelligence ministry agents who raided their home on June 5 and transferred to ward 209 of Tehran's Evin prison.
For almost three months, their family have been denied all visits and received no news of the fate of Hamed, a graduate in Industrial Management and Shahla, a public relations student at the University of Applied Science.
Their father Hassan, 54, is a children's rights activist jailed for his beliefs in the 1980s. His brother Ali Saremi was also a political prisoner and supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who was executed in Evin prison in 2010.
The chief interrogator of the Saremis is a mullah and intelligence ministry official named as Alavi, known to have personally hanged Ali Saremi three years ago and committed repeated crimes against humanity in Evin prison since the 1980s.

Iran ( Christian pastor gets 8 yrs in Evin prison for opening Christian Churches ) Wife mad at Obama

Tuesday, 27 August 2013   

The wife of an Iranian-American pastor imprisoned in Iran said Monday she was "extremely disappointed" that US President Barack Obama had remained silent on the case.

Mohabat News - The statement by Naghmeh Abedini followed reports from Tehran that an Iranian appeals court had upheld her husband Saeed Abedini's conviction and eight-year prison term.

"The news out of Iran is devastating to our family," she said in a statement released by the American Center for Law and Justice, which is representing the family.

Abedini, a naturalized US citizen who converted from Islam to Christianity, was sentenced to prison in January for his role in establishing underground Christian churches in Iran.

His Iran-based lawyer Nasser Sarbazi said the Tehran appeals court confirmed the verdict.

"As a consequence, the sentence of eight years in prison is definitive from now on," Sarbazi said.

Naghmeh Abedini, who lives in Idaho with the couple's two children, said the family would be consulting with lawyers to determine whether to appeal to Iran's Supreme Court or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader.

She called in the meantime for stepped up international pressure in the case, and sharply criticized Obama for not speaking out on her husband's behalf.

"My husband is serving eight years in the notorious Evin prison and facing daily threats and abuse by radicals because he refuses to deny his Christian faith," she said.

"And yet, my president, President Obama, has not spoken a word about him," she said.

"I am extremely disappointed that President Obama has chosen to remain silent on this critical human and religious rights case of an American imprisoned in Iran," she said. / WASHINGTON (AFP)