Iran ( Facebook activities draw harsh prison sentences )

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Eight people have been handed heavy prison sentences for their activities on Facebook. The charges against them range from "assembly and collusion against national security" and "anti-regime activity" to "insulting sanctities and government officials."

IRNA reports that these individuals were running several pages on Facebook and were arrested last July by order of the prosecutor.

The accused are from various cities including Yazd, Shiraz, Abadan, Kerman and Tehran.

Two of the accused were sentenced to 18 years and 19 years respectively as well as a fine of 1.3 million toumans and 50 lashes. (Total of 128 years)

The others are sentenced to prison terms of 8 to 21 years.

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Palestinian man mourns his two children who were killed ( Heart -breaking )

Sajedeh Arabsorkhi is summoned to Evin Prison

Posted on: 11th July, 2014                              

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HRANA News Agency- Sajedeh Arabsorkhi is summoned to serve a one year prison sentence at Evin Prison.
Sajedeh Arabsorkhi is the daughter of Feyzollah Arabsorkhi a political activist and a member of Iranian Reformist party.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), she was summoned for interrogations while her passport was confiscated at the airport after her return to the country.
On her personal Facebook page, Ms Arabsorkhi has announced the news of serving the sentence: “I am summoned to serve a sentence without receiving any formal verdict. What is more interesting is that I was also called in by Islamic Revolutionary Guards for interrogations within an hour! Only God knows the status of my cases!”
Whilst she is charged with “propaganda against the Islamic Regime”, she has been released on a 300 million Tomans bail on temporary basis until now.

BAGHDAD ( Kurds Take Control of Oilfields in Northern Iraq )

BAGHDAD – The government of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region said Friday that it took control of several oilfields in the northern province of Iraq.

“Members of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kirkuk Oil Protection Forces moved to secure the oilfields of Bai Hassan and the Makhmour area,” the Kurdish administration said in a statement.

The Kurds said they acted after learning that the federal oil ministry in Baghdad planned to have employees sabotage a new pipeline being built to link the three largest oilfields in the vicinity of Kirkuk.

Two of those fields are operated by Iraqi federal government’s North Oil Company.

Earlier Friday, the national Oil Ministry accused the KRG’s peshmerga security forces of having seized control of the Bai Hassan and Makhmour fields.

“(T)his irresponsible behavior ... violates the constitution and the national wealth, and disregards the federal authorities and threatens national unity,” the ministry said.

KRG forces took control of Kirkuk and other disputed areas after Iraqi army units in the region collapsed in the face of an onslaught by Sunni Muslim militants

A Bahai citizen arrested in Mashhad

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HRANA News Agency – Saqi Feda’i, a Bahai from Mashhad, was arrested by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence on July 8.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the agents arrived at her home with a warrant for her arrest.
On June 2, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence raided a Bahai religious meeting in her home, stopped the meeting, and searched the house. They seized some religious books and arrested her mother, Mey Khalusi and also Dari Amri and Shayan Tafazoli.
The three are still in custody and under interrogation. There is word yet as to where Saqi Feda’i is being held.

DENVER ( Latino killed at funeral of friend " by police " )

Denver Latino Community Seeks Probe After Fatal Police Shooting

DENVER – Hispanic leaders and members of the community in Denver met with municipal authorities to ask for an investigation into the death of a 20-year-old Latino, who was gunned down by police after attending a friend’s wake.

At the meeting, which took place Wednesday evening, were Mayor Michael Hancock and other city officials, Fidel Montoya, the former Denver public safety chief, told Efe on Thursday.

The idea was for “the authorities to become aware of those feelings and the sensibilities of the community,” Montoya added.

Ryan Ronquillo, who died on July 3, was being sought for multiple vehicle thefts.

On the afternoon of his death, police noticed Ronquillo inside a vehicle, apparently stolen, in front of a funeral home where he had just attended the wake of his best friend, who had committed suicide.

When police tried to arrest him in view of dozens of adults and children who had also come to the wake, Ronquillo got into an altercation with the officers, who opened fire on him and killed him.

On that same day, Joseph Valverde, 32, was also killed by police gunfire during an anti-drug undercover operation.

“The incidents last week in Denver have created anger, bitterness, hatred and concerns in the community,” commented Montoya, one of the heads of the Unity and Justice Committee formed to protest Ronquillo’s death.

Local authorities still have not decided whether to investigate the case, and the committee called a second community meeting for Saturday “to determine what steps to take.”

UNITED NATIONS ( Hamas is firing " M-302 rockets " focusing a new light on Iran ) ?????

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Evidence that Hamas is firing more sophisticated weapons at Israel – including longer-range rockets – than in past conflicts is focusing a new light on Iran’s role in arming the militant organization.
As Israel is contending with rockets launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza that are reaching deeper into its territory, a classified United Nations Security Council report concludes that a shipment of weapons intercepted by Israel on a cargo boat in the Red Sea last March originated in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
At the time, Iranian officials denied any knowledge of the arms, which were found in 20 crates buried under bags of cement. Iran is barred from exporting weaponry under an arms embargo approved by the Security Council in 2007.

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The captain of the ship, the Klos-C, was questioned by Israeli authorities. The Security Council report apparently does not establish the ultimate destination of the arms shipment, but the method of using building materials to cover over arms shipments has been used in the past to smuggle arms into Gaza.

 

But one reason the arms shipment – and the Security Council Sanctions Committee’s report on it – are drawing interest now is that under the bags of cement and among thousands of rounds of ammunition were tucked several dozen M-302 rockets. It’s the same longer-range, larger-payload rocket that Israel reports has been fired from Gaza in the current fighting.

On Wednesday, Israeli officials said an M-302 rocket landed outside the city of Hadera, about 70 miles north of Gaza. Rockets have also reached the greater Tel Aviv area, officials said. The M-302 has a range of about 115 miles