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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Bangladesh ( Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at garment workers over " Pay Rate " )
Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at garment workers who stitch clothes for Western retailers during clashes on Tuesday as demonstrations against low wages intensified, an officer said.
Some 40,000 workers downed tools and took to the streets in the Ashulia export zone on the outskirts of Dhaka for the second day, forcing around 200 factories to suspend production, police and factory owners said.
The workers are demanding a wage hike to $100 per month instead of the rise to $67 approved last week by the Minimum Wage Board after rounds of meetings with industry, unions and government representatives. (AFP)
Monday, November 11, 2013
Iran ( Iran Gives UN Inspectors Expanded Access to Nuke Facilities )
TEHRAN – Iran and the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency agreed on Monday on a plan to give IAEA inspectors access to a uranium mine and a heavy water plant.The pact was signed in Tehran by IAEA director Yukiya Amano and the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi.
Based on the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed, the document is “a roadmap for cooperation that determines mutual steps to resolve remaining issues,” Salehi said during a joint press conference with Amano.
Tehran’s willingness to grant access to the Gchine mine and the heavy water plant near Arak ends a nearly two-year impasse with the IAEA.
“It was agreed that Iran and the IAEA will cooperate further with respect to verification activities to be undertaken by the IAEA to resolve all present and past issues,” the parties said in a joint statement.
Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, was elected in June after pledging to work to resolve the dispute with the West over the Iranian nuclear program.
Israel and some Western nations say they suspect Iran is seeking the capability to make nuclear weapons, while Tehran insists the purposes of the program are strictly peaceful.
Talks in Geneva between Iran and the P5+1 group – Britain, France, the United States, Russia and China plus Germany – on a broad solution to the nuclear issue ended over the weekend without agreement, though negotiations are set to continue.
The IAEA has never found evidence that Iran is diverting nuclear materials for military purposes and the most recent estimate from the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Tehran is not pursuing nuclear weapons
Iran ( Prison doctor arrested after probing blogger’s death )
Monday, 11 November 2013
Reza Heydarpour, the Evin Prison physician who prepared the report on the death of jailed blogger Sattar Beheshti in custody, has been arrested, according to the exiles activist website.
Mohabat News - The report indicates that on Monday November 4, Heydarpour was arrested by the ministry of intelligence as he left Evin Prison.
The report adds that the detained physician was transferred to ward 209 of the prison, and there has been no news of him since then.
Beheshti was arrested in October of 2012 by the cyber police for his media activities and was pronounced dead in jail within a few days of his arrest. There have been many reports that his death was the result of severe beatings and torture by his interrogators.
The Beheshti family's efforts to hold prison authorities responsible for his death have so far been unsuccessful.
In 2009, Ramin Pourandarjani, the physician on duty at the notorious Kahrizak Prison, died under suspicious circumstances. The prison was later shut down, after reports of the deaths and abuse of detainees in that facility hit the media. /Radio zamaneh
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