Iran: A dozen women stabbed and injured by Basij in southern city - (Updated)

 

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File photo: Iranian regime agent attacks anti-government protester with knife.

NCRI - A number of young Iranian women, including at least five university students, have been stabbed in their hips with knives in past few days in the southern city of Jahrom.

According to information received from a source in Jahrom, about a dozen women have been victim of the violent attacks.

The women were attacked by at least four men riding on motorcycles.

The local officials have acknowledged that at least six women have been injured in this wave of attacks and they include five university students.

Sources in the city said the university students have identified one attacker who is affiliated with the paramilitary Basij Force.

Mohamad Beheshtifar was identified through recorded footage from a security camera near where he attacked one victim.

Mohamad Beheshtifar’s father is IRGC Colonel Jalil Beheshtifar who heads the Basij force in Ghotbabad district in Jahrom County, south of the city of Jahrom.

This criminal act followed recent protests by 300 students in Jahrom University where students protested against the suppressive measures in the university.

The attacks on university students are also taking place as university students across Iran are expected to take part in the annual protest on the occasion of Student Day on December 7 – known locally as 16 Azar – to demand political freedom in Iran.

 The Iranian regime officials in the city were forced to arrest the man after his identity had been revealed.

The attacker has said he had been motivated to attack after one cleric has said “killing of a Bad-Hejab (improperly veiled women) is permissible” and he has done this to act to “prevent vice”.

Earlier this month the Iranian regime’s parliament approved a bill officially putting the members of the Basij paramilitary force in charge of enforcing dress code in Iran and harassing and repressing women and youth in public under the pretext of “Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice”.

The law which passed with a majority institutionalized the work of members of the Basij paramilitaries that often patrol streets to enforce dress code and other behavior prescribed under the clerical regime’s misogynist laws.

The new law bolsters the work of the Basij members who often patrol streets and stop cars to interrogate couples about their relationships, to the resentment of many Iranians.

Acid attacks began after the Iranian regime’s parliament began reviewing bills empowering the Basij paramilitaries

Egyptian Jihadists Claim Killing of U.S. Citizen Last August in Sinai

CAIRO – A jihadist group in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula claimed responsibility on Monday for killing U.S. oil expert William Henderson last August and posted copies of the victim’s passport and identity documents on its Twitter account.

The group formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis changed its name to Sinai Province in November after its leaders swore loyalty to the Islamic State terror group that controls large areas of Syria and Iraq.

“We declare our responsibility for the death of U.S. oil expert William Henderson in the Western Desert,” reads a tweet on the Sinai Province account, without elaborating any further.

Henderson, 58, an employee of the U.S. Apache Corporation, was killed last Aug. 6 under circumstances that have never been clarified.

Local media had previously referred to the incident as a criminal act, while the Egyptian authorities did not comment on the matter.

The jihadist group’s priority is to target Egyptian security forces. The only attack claimed by the group against foreigners to date was an attack on a bus of South Korean tourists in February.

Three days ago, Sinai Province claimed responsibility of killing five Egyptian soldiers, including a colonel of the Armed Forces, in Cairo and in the Qalyubia governorate of the Nile Delta region.

IS has urged its affiliates to kill citizens of the countries that have joined the U.S.-led alliance to fight the jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

Five Burned Bodies Found in Southern Mexico

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Five burned bodies were found over the weekend in Chilapa de Alvarez, a town in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, police chief Job Encarnacion Cuenca said.

Police received a call around 8:40 p.m. Saturday that an SUV was on fire about three kilometers (1.8 miles) from Chilapa de Alvarez, Cuenca told Efe.

Officers found five bodies that had been set on fire with straw in the vehicle, the police chief said.

The bodies may be those of five businessmen who disappeared last week, security officials said.

Last Thursday, police found the headless bodies of 11 young men on the road between Chilapa de Alvarez and Ayahualulco, the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office said.

The bodies were dumped in the road after a shootout Wednesday night between rival gangs, Guerrero AG’s office spokesmen told Efe.

The Los Rojos and Los Ardillos gangs have been fighting for control of the illegal drug trade and other criminal activities in a section of Guerrero.

Two clandestine graves containing 13 bodies were found nearly a month ago in Chilapa de Alvarez.

On Sept. 26, 43 students were detained by police in Iguala, a city in Guerrero, and handed over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which allegedly killed and burned them to cover their tracks.

Former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velazquez has been linked to the disappearance of the 43 education students.

Abarca was arrested on organized crime, kidnapping and murder charges.

The politician and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, were arrested by the Federal Police on Nov. 4 in Mexico City.

Pineda is being held in preventive detention so prosecutors can gather more evidence in the case.

The couple fled from their house on Sept. 30, four days after Iguala municipal police officers opened fire on students from a rural teachers college.

Six people died, 25 were wounded and 43 students disappeared in the incident.

The search for the missing students has turned up numerous clandestine graves in the state.

Iran -5 prisoners hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison

Posted on: 29th November, 2014

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HRANA News Agency – 5 prisoners, accused of murder, in Rajai Shahr prison, in Karaj, were executed by hanging.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), On Wednesday 26th November, five prisoners on charges of premeditated murder in Rajai Shahr prison were executed by hanging.

One of those executed was Ruhollah Abbasi, who had been charged with first-degree murder during a street fight and was sentenced to death.

It is to say, on Tuesday 25th November, 9 accused of murder prisoners were transferred to solitary confinements for execution and by getting a reprieve, 4 of them were returned to their cells.

Five Dead in Taliban Attack on Foreigners’ Offices in Kabul

KABUL – Three Taliban and two foreigners, whose nationalities have not been disclosed, died in a suicide attack on Saturday against offices used by foreigners in Kabul, the third attack in the Afghanistan capital in the last three days, an official told Efe.

The attack began at mid-afternoon when several bombs exploded and insurgents ran into the building in the Kartise area on the southwest side of the capital, some 200 meters (655 feet) from the Afghan parliament, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said.

“Two office workers died and another six were rescued by security forces,” Sediqi said, adding that one police officer was wounded in the attack, which lasted four hours.

Two of the Taliban attackers were shot down by security forces and a third was killed when he detonated the explosives he was carrying.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack in a communique and said the building was a center of intelligence operations and Christian crusading.

Afghanistan is currently going through one of its bloodiest phases since local forces were given the responsibility for security last year, coinciding with the gradual withdrawal of foreign military forces which is to be largely complete by the end of this year.

However, NATO has announced that it will maintain 2,700 military instructors here beginning in 2015, while the U.S. will have some 9,800 soldiers posted until 2024

$100,000 in Cash Found Left Behind at Burger King Restaurant

SAN FRANCISCO – An employee of a Burger King restaurant in San Jose, California, in the southwestern U.S., found a backpack stuffed with $100,000 that had been left behind on one of the seats of the fast-food establishment, a discovery that was reported to police and is now under investigation.

The employee was cleaning tables when she came upon an abandoned backpack, which she reported to the manager who proceeded to open it.

“I opened the pack hoping to find documentation that would allow me to get in touch with the owner, but instead of that I found a ton of money in bills of up to $100,” the proprietor and manager Altaf Chaus said Friday on local TV channel KGO.

Chaus notified the police, who went to the restaurant and saw that the backpack contained $100,000 in cash, along with some caramels and marijuana, for which reason an investigation was opened to determine where the money came from.

Mexico Judge Orders Release of 11 Arrested over Violent Protests

VERACRUZ, Mexico – A Mexican judge on Saturday ordered the release of 11 people arrested over violent protests in support of 43 missing teacher trainees.

The judge in Xalapa, capital of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, found insufficient evidence to prosecute the suspects – eight men and three women – for the crimes of criminal association, mutiny and causing bodily harm.

The suspects had been held in two maximum-security prisons in the states of Veracruz and Nayarit after their arrest on Nov. 20 in Mexico City’s main square.

Saturday was the deadline for the judge to rule on whether to hold the 11 suspects over for trial.

Two isolated violent incidents occurred during the Nov. 20 protests in Mexico City involving attacks on security forces with Molotov cocktails, rocks and firecrackers.

Tens of thousands of people gathered that day in the massive Zocalo square to demand the safe return of the 43 students who went missing on the night of Sept. 26 in the southern town of Iguala, Guerrero state.

Police officers from Iguala and the neighboring town of Cocula detained those 43 students that night at the orders of Iguala’s mayor and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos gang, which killed them and burned the bodies to eliminate all traces of the victims, Mexican authorities say, citing statements by suspects in the case.

Corrupt municipal police targeted the students from a nearby teacher-training facility, according to some media accounts, after they had seized several buses for use in protests against education reform.

Earlier this week, London-based human rights group Amnesty International said the 11 suspects were being “unfairly held” and should be released immediately unless further evidence was presented.

“The evidence against the 11 protesters is so thin that it is incredibly hard to understand why they are still in detention, let alone in high-security facilities and treated as ‘high value criminals,’” Erika Guevara Rosas, AI’s Americas director, was quoted as saying.

“Such acts raise the question of whether there is a deliberate attempt to discourage legitimate protests,” she added.

In its statement on Thursday, AI also blamed the situation in Iguala on officials at the highest levels of government.

“Serious allegations of human rights violations and collusion between local authorities and criminals had been made before but federal and state authorities decided to take no action,” AI sa