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Tulsa - Woman arrested for trying to bite off boyfriends " penis ,".

TULSA - A night out drinking and an argument with his girlfriend nearly cost a Tulsa man his penis.

Officers responded to a Tulsa hospital early Thursday morning where a man claimed his girlfriend attacked him while he slept.

Amber Ellis was arrested for maiming and assault with a dangerous weapon.

According to the police report, the victim said he and his girlfriend were out drinking and began arguing while walking home "about how needy she had become."  The couple verbally fought in the apartment until the victim told police Ellis stormed off, slamming the bedroom door.

Police say the victim fell asleep on the couch only to wake up to find Ellis "biting his (penis) off."

The victim told police he fought Ellis off but she hit him in the head with a laptop computer.

Once hospitalized, the victim received several stitches to the base of his penis and was treated for injuries to his head, face, neck, fingers and knee.

Ellis was taken into custody for an interview and ultimately booked into the Tulsa County Jail.

Maryam Rajavi calls to save Saman Naseem and 5 Iranian political prisoners facing execution

NCRI - Mrs Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has called for urgent action to save the life of Saman Naseem, who was arrested when he was 17, and five political prisoners being on death row in the central prison in the city of Orumiyeh (northeastern Iran).

The six men were transferred to isolation on Wednesday (February 18) to await their execution.

Mrs Rajavi urged the United Nations, the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and all human rights organizations to take action to save the lives of these political prisoners.

She also called on UN Secretary General and Security Council, the United States and the European countries to take urgent and effective measures to save political prisoners in Iran, particularly these six prisoners, who are facing imminent execution.

Political prisoners Saman Naseem, Younes Aghayan, Sirvan Nejavi, Ebrahim Shapouri, Habibullah Afshari and Ali Afshari have all been sentenced in sham courts of the clerical regime and their death sentences have been confirmed by the mullahs' Supreme Court.

Younes Aghayan, an Azeri political prisoner and a follower of Ahl-Haq, has already spent 10 years in prison.

Saman Naseem, Sirvan Nejavi and Ebrahim Shapouri, have been sentenced to death for cooperating with the Life of Kurdistan Party (PJAK).

Habibullah Afshari, 26 and his brother Ali Afshari, 34, have been sentenced to death for supporting the Komala.

Continuing the policy of appeasement with regards to the Iranian regime, and silence against the dire situation of human rights in Iran, not only has given the ruling mullahs an open hand to impose the cruelest repression against the Iranian people, but it also has emboldened the clerical dictatorship in warmongering and export of terrorism and fundamentalism in the region as well as the world.

Mrs Rajavi demanded that the dossier of the clerical regime's crimes including the execution of 120,000 political prisoners be referred to the International Criminal Court by the United Nations Security Council.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 19. 2015

Iran news in brief, 19 February 2015

South African Man Sentenced To 1,500 Prison Term for 29 Rapes

JOHANNESBURG – A South African court has sentenced a serial rapist to 1,535 years in prison for sexually assaulting 29 women over a period of six years, the local daily, The Times, reported Friday.

Albert Morake, who committed his crimes between 2007 and 2013, was sentenced to 30 life sentences and was convicted of 144 additional charges including robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder.

“He had acted with premeditation. He came prepared (to commit the crimes) and was always in control,” Judge Rean Strydom said during sentencing.

Authorities said Morake threatened the women with a gun and sometimes tied up the partners of his victims and forced them to witness the rapes.

Strydom said that Morake, who showed no remorse for his actions, behaved arrogantly and “provided his victims with advice on how to protect themselves from rape in the future.”

According to South African law, Morake will not be eligible for parole before serving at least 25 years behind bars.

Argentine Government, Opposition Feud after Memorial March for Nisman

BUENOS AIRES – A day after an estimated 400,000 people marched in Buenos Aires to honor late prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the Argentine government criticized the political tone of an event one opposition leader described as a “resounding demonstration of hope.”

What took place Wednesday in Buenos Aires was not “a demonstration from the point of view of paying tribute to anybody, but rather an opposition march,” presidential chief of staff Anibal Fernandez said.

Citing the “strongly aggressive” statements some participants made against President Cristina Fernandez, Cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich spoke of a “political interest” behind the various demonstrations that have followed Nisman’s still-unexplained death last month.

Even so, both officials echoed the marchers’ demand for answers in the investigation of the prosecutor’s “suspicious death,” which came a few days after Nisman accused the president, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and six others of trying to conceal Iranian involvement in a 1994 attack on a Jewish organization in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead.

Ruling party lawmaker Fernando “Chino” Navarro said Argentine democracy could be weakened if the probe of Nisman’s death does not produce a credible result.

The prosecutor was found dead Jan. 18 in his apartment. Nisman died of a single shot to the temple, fired from a gun he had borrowed from a colleague.

Wednesday’s march “was a resounding demonstration of society’s hope,” the leader of the opposition Renewal Front, Sergio Massa, said in a statement.

Massa is among the people vying to succeed Fernandez when she leaves office in December after serving two terms.

Another presidential hopeful, rightist Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, told Radio Mitre he felt that he had been part of “a historic day” on Wednesday.

He also blasted Fernandez, who, he said, “doesn’t listen to anyone.”

Nisman’s ex-wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, is demanding that the investigation into his death be monitored by a representative of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

“In this judicial, political and media conjuncture, the guarantees for a totally impartial, risk-free investigation do not exist,” she said in an interview with Vorterix radio.

Nisman was the special prosecutor for the 1994 attack on the AMIA organization.

His accusation against Fernandez, taken up last week by prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, cites the Memorandum of Understanding her administration signed with Iran in 2013 to facilitate the AMIA investigation as the principal instrument of the purported cover-up.

The late prosecutor said that intercepts of telephone calls among some of the prospective defendants – though not Fernandez or Timerman – showed the outlines of a plan for Argentina to get Interpol to rescind the red notices the international police agency had issued for the arrest of Iranians accused in the AMIA bombing.

Yet the man who headed Interpol for 15 years until last November rebutted Nisman’s key accusation.

“I can say with 100 percent certainty, not a scintilla of doubt, that Foreign Minister Timerman and the Argentine government have been steadfast, persistent and unwavering that the Interpol’s red notices be issued, remain in effect and not be suspend or removed,” Ronald K. Noble said last month.

Many in the Argentine Jewish community believe the AMIA bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by Tehran’s Hezbollah allies.

Both the Iranian government and the Lebanese militia group deny any involvement and the accusation relies heavily on information provided by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad spy agency.

Prosecutors have yet to secure a single conviction in the case.

In September 2004, 22 people accused in the bombing were acquitted after a process plagued with delays, irregularities and tales of witnesses’ being paid for their testimony

Mexican Army Base Attacked in Protest over Missing Students

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Some 200 students took part in an attack on the headquarters of a Mexican army unit in the capital of the southern state of Guerrero to protest the disappearance of 43 of their classmates late September.

Nobody was hurt in the assault with Molotov cocktails on the 35th Infantry Battalion in Chilpancingo, which coincided with the 102nd anniversary of the army’s founding.

“We are missing 43,” students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college wrote on the base’s main gate.

The students, some wielding sticks and machetes, kept up the assault for only a few minutes before boarding four buses for the trip back to the college in Tixtla, Guerrero.

Families of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students are seeking an investigation of the army’s role in the violent events of Sept. 26 in Iguala, Guerrero.

That night, police attacked Ayotzinapa students as they traveled through the town on buses. Six people – including three students – were killed and 43 other students abducted.

Federal authorities say the incident was the work of corrupt municipal cops acting on the orders of a corrupt mayor who had connections with the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.

The cops handed over the students to cartel gunmen, who killed the young people and burned their bodies at a dump, according to the official account.

The students’ families reject that version of events and are demanding to know why soldiers of the Iguala-based 27th Infantry Battalion who witnessed the police attack did not intervene.

In December, respected newsweekly Proceso published a story drawing on a confidential Guerrero state government document that pointed to Mexico’s Federal Police as the perpetrators of the slaughter of the 43 students.

And before the Proceso report, a group of scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico said that the federal attorney general’s account of the burning of the students’ bodies “has no support in facts or in physical, chemical or natural phenomena.”