Venezuela ( UN to look into torture violations in Venezuela )

Monday March 10, 2014  01:50 PM

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has received renewed claims of alleged torture in Venezuela, Argentinean Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, told AFP on Monday in Geneva, outside the presentation of his office annual report.

"We are receiving new claims. They are varied and those related to my incumbency, particularly some of them, fortunately a few of them, have to do with very severe treatment concerning torture," Méndez told AFP.

"We want them to be investigated in depth; they are very, very serious tortures," Méndez said after submitting his report to the UN Human Rights Council.

Malaysia ( Iranian man traveling with stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines )

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A man traveling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday.
The announcement is likely to dampen, at least for now, speculation that the disappearance of the Boeing 777 was linked to terrorism. Police said a second passenger also traveling with a stolen passport has not been identified. Both bought their tickets in Thailand and entered Malaysia together.
No debris from the plane has been found. On Tuesday, baffled authorities expanded their search to the opposite side of Malaysia from where it disappeared more than three days ago with 239 people on board.
The airline says the pilots did not send any distress signals, suggesting a sudden and possibly catastrophic incident. Speculation has ranged widely about possible causes, including pilot error, plane malfunction, hijacking and terrorism.
News that two of the passengers were traveling with stolen passports immediately fueled speculation of foul play. However, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference Tuesday that investigators had determined one was a 19-year-old Iranian planning to enter Germany to seek asylum.
“We believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group,” Khalid said.
He said the young man’s mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt and had been in contact with police. He said she contacted Malaysian authorities to inform them of her concern when her son didn’t get in touch with her.
He also said there was no truth to a statement by at least one other government official that five passengers had checked in for the flight but never boarded the airplane.
The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur, on the western coast of Malaysia, early Saturday en route to Beijing. It flew across Malaysia into the Gulf of Thailand at 35,000 feet (11,000 meters) and then disappeared from radar screens.
Authorities have said the plane may have attempted to turn back toward Kuala Lumpur.
The hunt began on Saturday near the plane’s last known location. But with no debris found there, the search has been systematically expanded to include areas the plane could have reached with the fuel it had on board. That is a vast area in which to locate something as small as a piece of an aircraft.
Malaysia Airlines said search and rescue teams have expanded the scope beyond the flight path to the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia’s western coast and Indonesia’s Sumatra island — the opposite side of Malaysia from its last known location.
An earlier statement said the western coast of Malaysia was “now the focus,” but the airline subsequently said that phrase was an oversight.
“The search is on both sides,” Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said.
The search currently includes nine aircraft and 24 ships from nine countries that have been scouring the Gulf of Thailand on the eastern side of Malaysia. Land areas also are being searched.
China, where two-thirds of the passengers are from, urged Malaysian authorities on Tuesday to “speed up the efforts” to find the plane. It has sent four ships, with another four on the way.
A shopping mall in Beijing suspended advertising on its large outdoor LED screen to display a search timer — an image of an airplane along with a digital clock marking the time since contact with the flight was lost.
Assuming the plane crashed into the ocean or disintegrated in midair, there will likely still be debris floating in the ocean, but it may be widely spread out, and much may have already sunk. In past disasters, it has taken days or longer to find wreckage.
The United States has sent two navy ships, at least one of which is equipped with helicopters, and a Navy P-3C Orion plane with sensors that can detect small debris in the water. It said in a statement that the Malaysian government has done “tremendous job” organizing the land and sea search effort.
Vietnamese planes and ships are also taking part.
Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army, said authorities on land had also been ordered to search for the plane, which could have crashed into mountains or uninhabited jungle. He said military units near the border with Laos and Cambodia had been instructed to search their regions also.
“So far we have found no signs ... so we must widen our search,” he said.
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Minh reported from Hanoi, Vietnam. Associated Press writers Jim Gomez and Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur and Chris Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.

Pakistan ( Two policemen guarding a polio vaccination team Killed )

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Two policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan were were shot dead by armed men on Tuesday, police said, the latest setback to efforts to eradicate the crippling disease.
Militant strikes and threats of violence have badly hampered a campaign to stamp out polio in Pakistan, which along with Nigeria and Afghanistan are the only countries where the disease remains endemic.
Tuesday's attack took place in the village of Gandi Umar Khan, about 20 km west of the nearest city of Dera Ismail Khan, on the second day of an innoculation drive, senior police official Sadiq Baluch said.
Nisar Khan Marwat, another police officer, confirmed the attack, adding: "Two police officials were accompanying two local polio workers when four gunmen riding on two motorbikes shot at them."
The policemen died on the spot while the polio workers themselves were unhurt, he added.
According to an AFP tally, 54 people have been killed in attacks on polio teams in Pakistan since December 2012.
Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Victims are left dead, paralysed or with withered limbs.
Pakistan's failure to defeat polio stands in stark contrast to its neighbour and great rival India, which recently celebrated the eradication of polio three years after its last case.
The WHO has warned that Peshawar, the main city of the northwest, is the world's "largest reservoir" of polio.
Earlier this month, a bomb attack on a polio team in the restive northwest killed 12 people including 11 paramilitary troops guarding a team of vaccinators.

Saudi Arabia ( Two were found guilty of using "Social media " to encourage protests )

A criminal court in Riyadh has sentenced two Saudi political activists to 10 years and eight years in prison respectively for inciting violence in the eastern city of Awamiya using social media platforms.
Fahd bin Abdullah Al-Bikran, a spokesman for the Justice Ministry, said the first Saudi defendant was also fined SR100,000 for committing cyber crimes.
Both Saudis will be banned from traveling abroad for a period equal to their prison terms after completing their sentences, the spokesman said.
The two were found guilty of using sites such as Twitter and YouTube to encourage the families of detainees to stage demonstrations and sit-ins.
The second defendant was released the first time he was arrested after pledging never to incite dissidence again, the court said. But he went back on his promise, saying he was convinced that he was not doing anything wrong.
He was also convicted of defaming and making fun of the king, Saudi preachers and the judiciary.
The court said that he questioned the integrity of these people and also criticized security agencies that detained propagators of subversive thought. The defendant was also said to have supported the idea of fighting in war zones abroad.
In one instance, the defendant tried to flee from the authorities, crashing his car into the vehicle of officials of a law-enforcement authority. He also tried to dispose of his mobile phone so that authorities would not be able to view the content stored inside.
Five of the eight years were handed down for violating laws under the information act, while the remaining three years were given for other crimes.
Meanwhile, the court sentenced another Saudi, known as “King of Al-Nazim,” to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes, in addition to a life ban from driving.
Riyadh police forces arrested the driver for reckless endangerment in November 2012 after he appeared in video footage that had circulated on various social media platforms showing him, along with others, driving irresponsibly and endangering the lives of others.

Las Vegas ( Man gets surgery " Yes its what you think" )

For many men and women the size of male organ is a obseccion , and a great size for them means a more pleasurable sex.

For this American male member of his weight is a big issue , the name of this man is Wesley Warren and suffers from a condition known as scrotal lymphedema is a condition in which the tissue that covers the testis thickens and accumulates all the liquid that occurs in this area .

This problem for this man began in 2008, when asleep he took a heavy blow in one of his testicles , in united states this disease is not common , but in tropical countries is common, also known as scrotal elephantiasis and mostly is produced by the bite of insects injected into the blood parasites that cause a blockage in the lymph nodes near the scrotum surrounding what causes an accumulation of liquid waste , which causes an enormous growth of the scrotum. if warren is different because it is due to trauma suffered is due to the trauma he suffered.

This man had 4 years with a swollen scrotum and could not have sex during this time , or go to the bathroom normally, in 2012 underwent surgery for free in a hospital in las vegas nevada .

Mexico ( Eiza González Se Muestra Como Una Sexy Vampiresa )

 

 Actress finally crystallized saw one of his dreams and debuted on American television. 

Eiza Gonzalez could not be happier because finally managed to debut in the American television series with Robert Rodriguez, From Dusk Till Dawn. The actress arrived at the premiere of his first project in the United States clad in a tiny black dress, which showed off her charms to perfection. 

Gonzalez, who plays the character of "Satanic Pandemonium", was accompanied by the entire cast of the production, which stood Wilmer Valderrama and director, who gave a presentation showing that not only works great, but is also a great singer.

Libya ( Libya threatened Saturday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker )

BENGHAZI: Libya threatened Saturday to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker, which is suspected of trying to load an illegal cargo at the Al-Sidra oil terminal, if the vessel does not leave port.
Militants blockading the terminal in eastern Libya had been trying to load crude aboard the ship, a lawmaker said earlier, in the latest challenge to the government control of exports.


Deputy Defense Minister Khaled Al-Sherif told AFP a “crisis committee” made up of government officials and lawmakers had issued an ultimatum for the ship to leave Libyan territorial waters.
“If the ship doesn’t comply, it will be bombed by the air force or intercepted at sea by the navy,” Sherif said.
An MP and committee member said the deadline 2 p.m. (local time) deadline had expired without any action being taken.
Militants seeking autonomy for Libya’s east, were trying to load a shipment of petroleum “outside the framework of the state,” said the GNC member, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Acting Oil Minister Omar Shakmak denounced the move as an “act of piracy.” “This is a violation of national sovereignty. It is up to the Defense Ministry to deal with this ship,” he told AFP, without elaborating.
The latest crisis erupted in July, when security guards at key oil terminals shut them down, accusing the authorities of corruption and demanding a more equitable distribution of oil revenues.
The situation has become more complicated as self-rule activists in the east have insisted on the right to export.
Saturday’s incident was the latest in a standoff between the government and militants over exports.
, which are the principal source of revenue for the North African country.