Saudi Arabia ( Expat Indian driver shot dead by employer's son )

An Indian house driver who had arrived in the Kingdom a week ago was shot dead by his Saudi employer’s son in Makkah on Saturday.
“The shooter, who was in his twenties, suffered psychological problems,” said Aati Al-Qurashi, Makkah police spokesman. “The driver died after sustaining several gunshot wounds.”
A source told Arab News: “ Anas Pudvilikalvi, 24, from Kerala in India, arrived in Makkah a week ago to work as a family driver. The driver went to Taif on Friday night, along with the sponsor’s family, and returned to Makkah the same night, after which the fateful incident occurred,”
The body has been shifted to King Faisal Hospital in Makkah.
The shooter is in custody.

Iran ( 5 Christians arrested for gathering for " Easter" )

No information about the condition of 5 arrested Christians

Sunday, May 25 2014

 

 

The status of Ehsan Sadeghi, Maryam Asadi, Ali Arfa', Vahid Safi and Amin Mazloomi is still unknown.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), few days ago, Ehsan Sadeghi, Maryam Asadi, Ali Arfa', Vahid Safi, Amin Mazloomi and two more people were arrested in an attack to a church in south of Tehran, by security forces.

An informed source, based on the available evidence, introduced Mr. Sadeghi and Safi as the Afghan citizens who have been resided in Iran and newly converted to Christianity.

According to this report, some of the new converted to Christianity people who gathered in order to celebrate the Easter in Ms. Asadi's house were arrested by security forces. The forces did not have uniform and their behavior was very insulting. After the rush, security forces started investigation and capturing books, notes and other educational stuff.

According to the most updated information regarding this case, after numerous follow up and search of some the families of arrestees to the police, the office of intelligence service and judiciaries, they have informed that this arrest was carried out by intelligence fairs of a military organization and just after the end of investigations they would be able to contact them. They have also warned that they should not publicize and interview with anonymous people.

This source added that the family of Mazloomi could talk to their child.

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Mexico ( Five Members of Same Family Killed in Northwestern Mexico )

CULIACAN, Mexico – Five members of the same family were shot and killed in a mountainous area of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, sources with the state prosecutor’s office said.

A group of armed assailants reportedly abducted nine members of the family in La Cienega, a community in the town of San Ignacio, four of whom managed to escape.

The other five people were killed and their bodies were found in another nearby community.

Four males between the ages of 16 and 20 were among the victims, while the group that escaped consisted of a 16-year-old boy and three men between the ages of 29 and 48.

Mexican army soldiers and investigators with the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office were dispatched to the area to recover the bodies and launch an investigation.

Authorities have not yet indicated who may be behind the quintuple homicide or a possible motive.

Syria ( Syria Says 39 Dead in Attack on Assad Supporters )

BEIRUT – An attack on an election rally for President Bashar al-Assad left 39 people dead and 205 injured, Syrian authorities said Friday.

The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said earlier that at least 21 people died and 30 others were wounded in Thursday night’s mortar attack by an Islamist rebel group.

Describing the assault in the southern city of Daraa as a “terrorist attack,” Syrian state television aired images of the dead and wounded lying on the ground in pools of blood.

Assad is widely expected to win a third seven-year term in office in the June 3 contest against Maher Abdul-Hafiz Hajjar, a lawmaker and member of the legal opposition, and Hassan bin Abdullah al-Nouri, a former minister of administrative and parliamentary affairs.

The strike in Daraa was the first mortar attack by the insurgents on an event related to the election campaign, which kicked off on May 11.

Assad has made frequent public appearances in recent weeks and focused his campaign on national unity in Syria, where a three-year civil war has left more than 160,000 dead.

The mortar attack came just hours after government forces broke a 13-month rebel siege of the main prison in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, ending the insurgents’ attempt to free thousands of inmates housed there.

SAN JUAN (16 Puerto Rican Cops Arrested on Corruption Charges )

 

SAN JUAN – FBI agents on Thursday arrested 16 current and former members of the Puerto Rico Police Department on corruption charges.

The accused, among whom are two sergeants, arrested civilians and seized drugs from them which they later sold, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez said.

“The criminal action today dismantles an entire network of officers who, we allege, used their badges and their guns not to uphold the law, but to break it,” said Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General David O’Neil said.

The suspects, Rodriguez-Velez said, “not only betrayed the citizens they were sworn to protect, they also betrayed the thousands of honest, hard-working law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day to keep us safe.”

“Today is a sad day for Puerto Rico, where a group of police officers allegedly disgraced their uniform and are a shame to the Police of Puerto Rico,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Carlos Cases said.

The arrests came a day after the leaders of Puerto Rico’s House and Senate, Jaime Perello and Eduardo Bhatia, respectively, met with new PRPD chief Jose Caldero to monitor the process of reforming the troubled force.

The reform of the PRPD was launched after the judicial agreement reached between San Juan and the Department of Justice as a result of a 2011 report by the ACLU asserting that between 2005 and 2010 almost 2,000 local police officers committed assorted crimes.

One year earlier, the FBI had undertaken in Puerto Rico one of the largest operations in its history against police corruption linked with drug trafficking.

California ( Rapist who " attacked 40 women to be released" in Southern California )

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The so-called "Pillowcase Rapist" who attacked at least 40 women in the 1970s and 1980s will be freed and allowed to live in a remote Southern California desert area despite a host of vocal protests, a judge ordered Friday.

Christopher Evans Hubbart, 63, must be released from a state facility by July 7, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown ruled.

Hubbart will be permitted to rent a small house near Palmdale, some 45 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

"Now we are preparing for his arrival," said District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who spent months fighting Hubbart's release. "We will do everything within our authority to protect the residents of Los Angeles County from this dangerous predator."

Hubbart will wear a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week GPS monitor on his ankle and will be accompanied by security people every time he goes out in public for the first six months to a year of his release, Lacey said. He will be transported to therapy sessions twice a week.