Dozens dead as ISIL claims responsibility for Baghdad bomb blast

Seven Arrested in Mexico with 372 Sea Turtle Eggs

MEXICO CITY – Seven people were arrested in the Pacific Coast state of Nayarit in possession of 372 sea turtle eggs, Mexico’s environmental protection agency, known as Profepa, said in a statement.

Profepa said the enforcement actions in the municipality of Compostela were spurred by the presence of people selling turtle eggs on area beaches, including Platanitos, Playa de Ixtapa, Boca de Custodio and Boca de Chila.

After intercepting five people transporting 175 eggs in a 1996 Nissan pickup truck, authorities surprised two men as they were plundering sea turtle nests, seizing 112 eggs from one of them and 85 from the other.

The suspects were handed over to a delegation of the federal Attorney General’s Office in Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit.

Sale of sea turtles and their eggs has been banned in Mexico since 2006 and the seven suspects in Nayarit could face up to nine years in prison as well as hefty fines, Profepa said.

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Iran: homeless women arrested

The catastrophe of homeless women and those sleeping in the streets in Iran has now reached a point where they are arrested by security agents. Meitham Amroudi, deputy Tehran mayor said in this regard 2,000 homeless people in the summer and 6,000 in the winter are rounded up each day in Tehran alone.
 (State-run Fars news agency – August 5, 2015)

Doctors Refuse to Force Feed Palestinian Prisoner on Hunger Strike

JERUSALEM - Israeli doctors have refused to force feed Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Alaan, who has been on hunger strike for 56 days, on the grounds that it is a form of torture, despite recent legislation in Israel that allows it.

Alaan had already been transferred from Soroka hospital in Beersheva to Barzilai in Ashkelon on Monday after doctors refused to force feed the prisoner for ethical and legal reasons, and the same decision has been taken by the doctors at Barzilai on Tuesday.

While the Israeli Knesset adopted a law permitting the force feeding of hunger striking prisoners in July, many medical associations have condemned the measure and have urged health workers to refuse to comply.

Thus, the director of the Barzilai medical center, Dr. Hezi Levy, endorsed the decision of his colleagues at Soroka and refused to feed the prisoner against his will, as his life is not in immediate danger, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.

"Force-feeding is a drastic measure that is incompatible with medical ethics," Dr. Levy said in a statement released on Tuesday, according to The Times of Israel.

"Any treatment carried out without the consent of the patient is reserved for a decline in (his) medical condition and an urgent life-saving need," the hospital director added.

Basel Ghattas, an Arab member of the Knesset, warned the Barzilai administration in a letter that it would turn into an "Israeli Guantanamo, where it is allowed to torture" if it employed force-feeding, Channel 2 reported.

Dr. Leonid Eidelman, the chairman of the Israel Medical Association, said that he would petition the High Court of Justice to ban force-feeding.

13 Wounded in Prison Fight in Mexico

CANCUN, Mexico – Thirteen inmates were wounded in disturbances at the jail in the Mexican Caribbean resort city of Cancun over the weekend, officials said.

Two of the inmates were seriously wounded in the brawl on Sunday, Quintana Roo state Public Safety Secretary Juan Pedro Mercader Rodriguez said.

An attack on the leader of a prison gang led to a second fight as the man was being transported to Cancun General Hospital for treatment, Mercader said.

Security will be tightened on family visiting days, the public safety secretary said.

“The inmates violated the agreement we had with them to avoid any types of disturbances during family visits,” Mercader said.

“What’s going to happen now is that the number of visits and times are going to be restricted. This is the second time this happens. We had a problem before during a soccer game and there were 40 hurt, 30 of whom were hospitalized,” Mercader said.

An investigation has been opened into the incident at the jail, the Quintana Roo Attorney General’s Office said.