An American couple whose daughter disappeared in 2011 is asking Greek police to check whether or not she is “Maria,” a blue-eyed blond girl who was found living with alleged abductors at a gypsy camp.
The parents of Lisa Irwin, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, of Kansas City, have contacted their local FBI office which has reached out to Greek authorities.
“We are waiting to hear back from law enforcement,” their lawyer, John Picerno, said on Tuesday, according to the Kansas City Star.
"Maria," who is believed to 5 or 6 years old, was taken into protective care last week after DNA tests established that the couple looking after her could not be her biological parents.
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Tehran (AFP) - A convicted Iranian drug trafficker who survived a botched hanging has fallen into a coma, the IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
"His level of consciousness is around six percent and the possibility of brain death will increase if the situation does not improve," IRNA quoted what it called an informed source as saying.
"The doctors cannot perform any surgery or other treatment while he is in a coma," said the source.
The prisoner, identified only as Alireza M., 37, was pronounced dead earlier this month by the attending doctor after hanging for 12 minutes from a noose suspended from a crane at a jail in northeastern Iran.
But the next day, staff at the mortuary in the city of Bojnourd where his shrouded body was taken discovered he was still breathing.
The incident led to a heated debate between jurists, with some saying he should be hanged again and others arguing he had faced his punishment and should be spared.
Some jurists and attorneys even signed and sent a petition to judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, appealing for a stay in the exceptional case.
Two Grand Ayatollahs published a fawta, or religious decree, saying the convict should not be hanged again.
Amnesty International called for an immediate stay of execution Alireza M. and for all other death row prisoners in Iran, which carried out more executions last year than any other country except China.
The London-based human rights watchdog said 508 people have already been executed in the country so far this year.
Tehran says the death penalty is essential to maintain law and order, and that it is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.
Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are among the crimes punishable by death in Iran.
Usage of chemical fertilizers was supposed to be reduced to one third and replaced with plant and living fertilizers, which has not been done so far giving out improper nutrition.
The usage of meat and dairy products has greatly reduced in the food basket of the Iranian people being replaced with fat, explained the head of the agricultural commission.
He said: “Based on recent research 10 per cent of children under the age of 5 are facing lightweight, and in villages percentage is higher.”
"Anemia from lack of iron is higher among girls between the ages of 15 to 19 than women of ages 20 to 45. This shows of an improper nutrition among the new generation.”
Around 2 per cent of the people suffer from digestive cancer. One third of this figure is related to the fertilizers and poisons remaining in the food product and 50 per cent of it comes from places with the most usage of chemical fertilizers.
This government official said: “The soil in South Tehran is contaminated with heavy metals causing great contamination in production with lettuce, mint and scallion containing the most lead.”
Food production in the country must increase to decrease at least 30 per cent of the damages caused in the production unit, he said.