San Diego ( Border Patrol - New " Use of Force regulations " )

SAN DIEGO – The Southern Border Communities Coalition acknowledged that the Border Patrol’s decision to modify its regulations on the use of force is “a step in the right direction.”

The new policies were the result of pressure by border communities and lawmakers who asked that an end be put to the wave of incidents involving firearms and Border Patrol agents, which have resulted in the deaths of about 20 people since 2010, coalition director Christian Ramirez told Efe.

“The key moment in this process of raising awareness occurred in 2012 after a ... video was publicly released that documented the beating and death of San Diego resident Anastacio Rojas, 42, the father of five children, who was beaten in May 2010 by more than a dozen Border Patrol agents when he was going to be deported to Mexico,” Ramirez said.

The video, aired on PBS, showed how Rojas was beaten “while he was lying face down, handcuffed, at the same time that he was subjected four times to the impact of a taser without any regard for the fact that he was begging for his life, dying of a heart attack,” he said.

The co-president of the coalition, Andrea Guerrero, told Efe that activists will continue “with our advocacy to ensure ourselves that words are transformed into deeds.”

The announcement about the changes in the use of force policy occurred on the same day that a delegation of representatives from the border communities, including law enforcement personnel, businessmen, religious and community leaders met with top-level White House and Border Patrol officials, Guerrero said.

The attention brought by the Rojas case allowed five other incidents in which Border Patrol agents shot and killed people while they were on the Mexican side of the frontier to make it to the national level. EFE

Mexico ( Women and girls , from six years old , are abducted to be sold over and over again for prostitution )

Drug cartels in Mexico are increasingly engaged in the trafficking of people to diversify their ' revenue ' , resulting in an increase of the victims of exploitation in the country , which are becoming younger . " Heli " , the controversial film about the drug trade in Mexico .
Women and girls , from six years old , are abducted to be sold over and over again for prostitution , until they cease to be a business for his captors , according to reports from civil society organizations fighting to end human trafficking .
The regional director of the Coalition Against Trafficking and Exploitation of Girls and Women in Latin America and the Caribbean , Teresa Ulloa , said that the cases he has treated between August 2012 and August 2013 have been linked to gangs engaged in drug trafficking by 70 % , while 5 % have been killed
 The victims are hooked through online social networks , beauty contests or directly to their home , where they are tricked or , in the worst case , deprived of their liberty and forcibly abducted , according to the Mexican newspaper El Universal .
Pregnancy and threats to children" Now also pregnant and threaten to take away or make something to their children to continue working for them ," stated Ulloa , who points out that victims are often exploited apparently legal in places like restaurants or bars, and that among owners are drug dealers, famous businessmen and politicians or senior public servants who use fake names to offend.
The director in Mexico of the international organization ECPAT ( End Child Sexual Exploitation , by its acronym in English ) , Norma Negrete , explained that some of the victims are just kidnapped migrants passing through the country.
Civil organizations regret that , to date, the Mexican government does not have or make public an assessment of the crime of trafficking in the country , so it is unknown the likely number of victims, the modus operandi of national and international networks dedicated to this illegal activity and the degree of permissiveness by act or omission of the authorities.
If there is a diagnosis, there can be an effective public policy that this crime attack head-on , said Negrete .
In 2007 came into force in the country a federal anti-trafficking law , which was amended and promulgated on June 1, 2012 as a general law , which requires the authorities of all states to take action on the matter , but until now , not been regulated .
In addition , Mexico's 18 states have specific laws on the subject and in all , the offense is included in the Penal Code . " The problem is that all legislation is handled concepts than there is no harmonization and this helps make the crime go unpunished ," stated the Academic Legal Research Institute of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ) Javier Benitez.
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Mexico ( scrap metal worker gunned down in front of his house )

 

The morning of Wednesday a man identified as Juan Sanchez Sanchez, 36 years old, who was engaged in buying and selling scrap metal, was gunned down inside his car at the time it was parked outside his home, which is located in the Bellavista neighborhood.

Despite being shot by the 9mm, this person did not die instantly, paramedics tried to save the victim but he died at the scene. Read more:
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Mexico Michoacan ( Three heads of men were left on a statue - with a message ) Drug cartel wars

The three heads were left on the statue of Dr. Jose Ramon Macias they belong to men between 25 and 30 years of age and those who were said to be community police officers,  a written message was left on a cardboard.

The finding was at 7:20 am this morning when neighbors reported to the authorities of the presence of the heads in the square that is formed by the avenues Morelos, Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Velázques, Colonia Obrera.

After the report federal police, army and MP came to confirm the incident and cordoned off the area,  bodies parts were in the area they have been dismembered.

The message was left at the foot of the statue, which said:

"This is going to happen to all the rats come disturb communal peace of the people of the Kings continue to support the Poncho to Queringüa, Chelis Geronimo".

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Iran ( People ask Iran President for the release of imprisoned Pastor Saeed Abedini.)

Iran ( Iranian student awarded human-rights prize while in prison )

 Posted on: 26th September, 2013 

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HRANA News Agency – Omid Kokabee, a physics PhD student jailed in Iran since January 2011, was awarded yesterday the 2014 American Physical Society’s Andrei Sakharov Prize for “his courage in refusing to use his physics knowledge to work on projects that he deemed harmful to humanity, in the face of extreme physical and psychological pressure.”

Kokabee has said that he had been pressured to cooperate in Iranian military projects that he thought were likely part of a covert nuclear programme. It is the first time a person is awarded the prize while in prison.

The Sakharov Prize recognizes scientists committed to human rights and is named after the Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov, (1921-1989), who worked on the Soviet hydrogen bomb and later became a dissident. Sakharov received the Peace Nobel prize in 1975.

Along with Kokabee, the American Physical Society (APS) has also presented the 2014 Sakharov prize to Boris Altshuler of the Lebedev Physical Institute, for “his life-long struggle for democracy in Russia and for his advocacy on behalf of the rights of neglected children.”.

Kokabee, 31, did graduate studies in laser physics at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona and at the University of Texas in Austin. He was sentenced to 10 years of prison in May 2010 for conspiring against Iran. He denied all accusations in a series of open letters, in which he also denounced ill-treatment in jail. In one letter, published in March, he wrote that the he was jailed for refusing to work on projects that were possibly related to the use of high-powered carbon dioxide laser for isotope separation.

“Kokabee is becoming an icon for science free of pressure from political influence: this independence is much in the spirit of Sakharov,” says Hossein Sadeghpour, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the chair of the APS Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists, which nominated the PhD student for the prize. He says that the nomination was supported by letters from prominent physicists, including a Nobel Prize laureate.

“I am happy that the prize is awarded to a person in the Middle East, because the situation of the region is very similar today to Stalin’s Russia,” says Eugene Chudnovsky, a physicist at the City University of New York and a member of the award committee who was himself a victim of repression in the Soviet Union. “Plenty of people are jailed or killed in a fight against freedom of thought.” He adds that the awardee has been selected “in part because Nature […] brought international attention to Omid”.

Now, scientists hope that the prize will improve Kokabee’s situation. The country has a new president, Hassan Rouhani, who is seen as more moderate than his predecessor. “Omid Kokabee’s case presents a good opportunity for Rouhani to show he wants to improve Iran’s human-rights standards”, says Chudnovsky.

In August, an Iranian opposition magazine published a letter in which Kokabee complained for having been refused a temporary prison leave to present results at a physics conference held in late August in Iran. His submission, made from jail, was accepted by the conference organizers, and he was assigned a time slot. Prison authorities argued that they could not afford the security and transport costs, the letter says.

Los Angeles ( Man dies in fight after Dodgers Game - Suspects detained )

A 24-year-old man in Los Angeles Dodgers apparel was stabbed to death during a fight Wednesday night near AT&T Park after the game between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers.
Jonathan Denver was stabbed at around 11:30 p.m. PDT, shortly after the game ended, police told the San Francisco Chronicle. There were reports that 10 Dodgers and Giants fans were involved in the altercation and Sgt. Danielle Newman told the Chronicle that three people had been detained. Denver, who died at San Francisco General Hospital, was walking away from the stadium with his father and brother when a verbal disagreement became violent, police told CBS San Francisco.