Mexico ( Cartel Leader’s Son Arrested in Western Mexico )

MORELIA, Mexico – One of the sons of Caballeros Templarios drug cartel boss Servando Gomez Martinez was arrested in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, officials said.

Huber Gomez Patiño was arrested in the city of Arteaga on Saturday, the Government Secretariat, Defense Secretariat, Navy Secretariat and Attorney General’s Office said in a joint statement.

The 22-year-old suspect tried to flee after spotting federal law enforcement agents and was captured, federal officials said.

Gomez Patiño, who was armed, told the officers he was Gomez Martinez’s son and threatened to have them killed if they did not release him, the federal agencies said.

The suspect faces firearms and drug charges, officials said, adding that he was turned over to federal prosecutors.

Servando Gomez Martinez took over the Caballeros Templarios cartel’s leadership earlier this year.

Federal security forces killed the cartel’s two top leaders, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez and Enrique Plancarte Solis, in February and March, respectively.

Moreno and other members of the Familia Michoacana gang formed the Caballeros Templarios organization after he was reported killed by the government in 2010.

The Caballeros Templarios cartel, which deals in both synthetic and natural drugs, commits murders, stages kidnappings and runs extortion rackets that target business owners and transport companies in Michoacan.

The cartel uses Michoacan’s 270 kilometers (168 miles) of coastline to smuggle chemical drug precursors for the production of synthetic drugs into Mexico.

The federal government is offering a reward of 30 million pesos (about $2.3 million) for information leading to Gomez Martinez’s arrest.

State officials, meanwhile, said Jose Manuel Chacon, a hitman on the cartel’s payroll, was arrested in the upscale Chapultepec district of Morelia, the capital of Michoacan

TEHRAN ( Female fans banned from Iran volleyball )

TEHRAN: Female fans and even women journalists will not be allowed to attend a World League volleyball match between Iran and Italy in Tehran Sunday, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Women were reportedly turned away from the Azadi Stadium when Iran played Italy in the first leg on Friday, while female reporters inside the complex were ordered to leave.
“Female journalists are banned from entering the stadium for the next three matches in Tehran,” IRNA reported.
Placed in the difficult Group A, Iran has already hosted Brazil in Tehran, as well as one game against Italy. Two more games are planned in the Azadi Stadium that can hold 12,000 spectators, against Poland on June 27 and 29.
According to the Khabaronline news website, authorities had confronted female journalists holding proper press credentials issued by Iran’s National Volleyball Federation on Friday, and ordered them out.
A small group of female fans protested outside, and journalist Fatemeh Jamalpour of the reformist Shargh daily said they were detained by the authorities.
Jamalpour was also taken into custody and held for six hours, she said on her Facebook page.
Since Iran started playing in the World League, only once — in 2013 — have Iranian women been allowed to attend the game. Since then, however, female journalists had been allowed to cover the games.

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BEIJING ( 13 Die in Attack on Police Station in Northwest China )

BEIJING – At least 13 people died on Saturday in a new attack on a police station in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, where tensions between the Communist regime and extremist Muslim groups have increased over the past few months.

According to the official news agency Xinhua citing local authorities, the 13 dead were part of a group of assailants gunned down by security forces, while three police officers suffered slight wounds in the clash.

The same sources said that no civilians were killed or wounded in the attack.

For its part, local media reported that a truck crashed into the police station in the city of Yecheng in the southern part of Xinjiang province, and that those riding in it detonated several explosive devices before they were brought down by security forces.

The Xinjiang autonomous region remains a scene of violence in China after decades of conflict between the Uygurs and the majority Han ethnicity.

Beijing says there are extremist groups in this region, many headed by Uygurs, who demand independence for this territory under the name of East Turkestan.

For their part, Uygur groups in exile complain that Beijing uses accusations of terrorism as an excuse to repress their religion and culture, and say that the recent increase of ethnic clashes is due to the “persistent” violation of their human rights.

Over the past five years the number of victims related to clashes between the authorities and these groups or from terrorist attacks stands at around 400.

One of the worst attacks was launched last May 22 when two vehicles ran over people at a crowded street market in the town of Urumqi, capital of the region, leaving 39 dead and almost 100 injured.

In recent months, some attacks have also occurred outside the region, something unprecedented up to now, which has spurred Chinese authorities to roll out an antiterrorist campaign and to heighten surveillance around the country

CAIRO ( 183 Islamists Sentenced to Death, Including Head of Muslim Brotherhood )

CAIRO – The criminal court of Minya in southern Egypt on Saturday sentenced to death 183 alleged followers of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its leader Mohammed Badie, for disturbances and acts of violence in that province last August.

According to the state news agency MENA, another 496 out of a total 683 accused were pardoned, while four people received life sentences.

Around 120 of the accused are in custody for the premeditated murder of a police officer, while the rest were sentenced for rebellion.

Judicial sources told Efe that the accused who are being tried in absentia face harsher sentences, which can later be revised if they finally show up in court.

The defendants found guilty were charged with homicide, attempted murder, robbery, use of deadly force, mob attacks on public installations, arson and unlicensed possession of firearms.

The court, presided by controversial Judge Said Youssef, handed down the final verdict after receiving the non-binding opinion of Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawqi Alam, to whom he sent a previous verdict with 683 death sentences last April to seek his guidance, as is mandatory under Egyptian law.

People close to those on trial, waiting at the courthouse door, were astonished by the sentences and confused by the different versions offered by the defendants’ lawyers after the trial, eyewitnesses told Efe.

The incidents go back to last August when a wave of violence shook the village of al-Adwa in Minya province, after the dismantling of camps in the Cairo squares of Rabaa El-Adawiya and Nahda where the Islamists had gathered to protest the military ouster of Mohamed Morsi.

LA PAZ ( 13 Die in Truck-Bus Collision in Northern Bolivia )

LA PAZ – Thirteen people died on Saturday in Bolivia when a truck and a bus slammed into each other on the highway between the Andean provinces of Oruro and La Paz, police officials said.

The accident occurred around 6:30 a.m. near the community of San Antonio when the two vehicles collided head-on, Erbol radio reported, citing local police.

In the accident, whose causes are as yet unknown and are under police investigation, another five people were injured and were taken to a hospital in the city of El Alto, near La Paz.