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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Iran ( Trial for Girl who went to volleyball game )
Outcome of Ghoncheh's trial #FreeGhoncheh
Oct 14, 2014 — Dear supporters,The Ghoncheh's trial took place today. It was private so our family waited outside. It took one and half hours.
My mother met Ghoncheh briefly before the hearing, held her and gave her confidence. After the hearing the judge allowed everyone into the courtroom. It was an emotional family reunion. Ghoncheh met our beloved grandfather after 110 days and embraced him and cried. Aunt, uncle, grandparents and another relative were present. Since the court was not public Ghoncheh and the lawyer didn't say much about what happened. But she was calm after the hearing.
The judge will give his verdict in a week's time. Ghoncheh left the building and returned to prison. Outside in the prison car, she saw few of her friends waiting, they blew a kiss to her and she blew a kiss back. I am optimistic but anxiously waiting for next week's verdict which I hope to be just and fair. I will update you on the verdict.
A second Texas health care worker infected with Ebola
DALLAS – A second Texas health care worker who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has become infected with the deadly disease, health officials announced early Wednesday.
The hospital employee reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, officials said. The woman's name, age, and position have not released.
“This is a heroic person, a person who has dedicated her life to helping others and is a servant leader,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said during a press conference.
The woman was among 76 hospital workers who cared for Duncan, a Liberian citizen who died from Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian a week ago.
Jenkins called the second employee’s diagnosis a “gut shot” to the hospital staff. He acknowledged officials are making contingency plans that others who treated Duncan may develop Ebola as well.
“That is a very real possibility,” he said.
It wasn't immediately known how the second worker contracted the disease, but the hospital's chief clinical officer said but “it’s clear there was an exposure somewhere, sometime in their treatment of Mr. Duncan.”
“We’re a hospital that may have done some things different with the benefit of what we know today,” said a bleary eyed Dr. Daniel Varga said during a news conference. “Make no mistake, no one wants to get this right more than our hospital.” The second Ebola infection at the hospital is "an unprecedented crisis," he said.
The latest positive test for Ebola was determined at about midnight Tuesday at a state laboratory in Austin. Results from a second testing by the CDC in Atlanta are expected later Wednesday.
A hazardous-materials team is now decontaminating the worker’s Dallas apartment in a popular community not far from the hospital. City officials said she lived alone and had no pets.
The woman becomes the third person to be diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas since Sept. 30. City officials addressed the public early Wednesday.
“I continue to believe that while Dallas is anxious about this — and with this news this morning the anxiety level goes up a level — we are not fearful,” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said. “It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.”
Duncan, who had travelled from West Africa to Dallas days before becoming ill, was the first person to ever be diagnosed with the virus in the United States. The disease, for which there is no known cure, has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization estimates.
Duncan, 42, was treated at Texas Health Presbyterian for 10 days before his death. Last Friday, 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham began running a fever while at home and went to the hospital where she was isolated. She tested positive for Ebola on Sunday. Hospital officials reported that she was in good condition as of late Tuesday.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Convicted Killer Released, 2 Days Later Kills His Mother
Convicted Killer Steven Pratt Released, 2 Days Later Kills His Mother
Here’s why sane civilizations execute murders:
Just two days after a convicted murderer had been released from prison, he was arrested and charged in the beating death of his 64-year-old mother, authorities said.Gwendolyn Pratt was found dead around 6:30 a.m. Sunday at a home in Atlantic City, The Press of Atlantic City (http://bit.ly/1saiKL1) reported. An autopsy determined that she died from massive blunt injuries to the head, Atlantic County prosecutor Jim McClain said in a statement.Her 45-year-old son, Steven Pratt, was detained at the scene and charged with murder.
The next door neighbor he had been locked up for shooting in the face, Michael Anderson, had been like a father to him, according to Pratt himself.
When the moonbat authorities inevitably let him loose again, his friends and relatives are advised to make themselves scarce.
Pratt falls back into prison.
Journalist Reported Missing in Northwestern Mexico
CULIACAN, Mexico – The editor of the Nueva Prensa political magazine based in Ahome, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, has disappeared, his family said.Jesus Antonio Gamboa Urias disappeared on Friday night from a business owned by one of his brothers and his whereabouts is unknown.
His relatives reported the journalist’s disappearance to the prosecutor’s office in Ahome.
The 39-year-old Gamboa never returned home, has failed to answer his cell phone and has not been seen, his brothers said.
“We searched for him in the places that he more or less frequents and nothing ... we searched for him with the police (on Sunday) in different places and we are desperate and without news,” Gamboa’s family told prosecutors.
“The last time we saw him was Friday around midnight at his brother’s business. He was there a good while, left and we never heard from him again,” a friend of the journalist told Efe.
The Sinaloa state legislature scrapped a law in August limiting press coverage of crime that was opposed by the media and human rights groups.
Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel that bears the state’s name.
The Sinaloa cartel, sometimes referred to by Mexican officials as the Pacific cartel, is a transnational business empire that operates in the United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, intelligence agencies say.
Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman, the cartel’s leader, was captured on Feb. 22 by marines at the Miramar condominium in Mazatlan.
Guzman, the world’s most notorious and powerful drug lord, was captured without any shots being fired.
Iran ( Two women on " hunger strike " )
Atena Farghdani and Ghoncheh Ghavami on ‘dry’ hunger strike
HRANA News Agency – Atena Farghdani and Ghoncheh Ghavami, who are in the same cell at ward 2A, went on ‘dry’ hunger strike from day ten of their hunger strike.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Atena Farghdani and Ghoncheh Ghavami, who are held in the same cell at ward 2A of Revolutionary Guard in Evin prison, are on hunger strike since about 11 days ago and since October 11th are on ‘dry’ hunger strike.
Atena Farghdani, painter artist and children’s rights activist, was arrested in early September this year and no exact information regarding the charges against her has been obtained yet.
Ghoncheh Ghavami, a British-Iranian citizen, who had gone to watch a volleyball match in Azadi Stadium on 20th June this year was arrested and then released hours later.
A few days later, she went to get her personal belongings; she was arrested again and since 105 days ago she has been detained.
It should be noted that during ‘dry’ hunger strike, the striker avoids to drink water and other liquids, too.
Iran ( “Masoumeh Zia” and “Maliheh Biganian” released from prison )
Posted on: 13th October, 2014
Masoumeh Zia According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), from the four followers of the “Erfan-e-Halghe” transferred to Evin Prison, “Masoumeh Zia” and “Maliheh Biganian” were released on bail. “Narges Farhadi” who refused to provide the bail remained in prison.
There is no information about “Iraj Amidi” yet.
A well informed source told HRANA reporter: “interrogations were extremely violent and those arrested has been threatened. All three detainees have been on hunger strike within the past couple of days in protest to violent interrogations and also the imprisonment of Mohammad Ali Taheri. “Narges Farhadi” is still in prison and will continue the hunger strike.”
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