Young woman commits suicide in Iran by jumping off bridge

NCRI – A young Iranian woman committed suicide on Monday by jumping off a bridge in Tehran.

The woman was not identified by name, but the regime’s state media reported that she was 25 years old.

She took her life at 11.20 am by jumping off the 10-meter-heigh pedestrian bridge in Tehran’s Resalat Square.

In another case of suicide, two girls who had been discharged from a girls’ social welfare center in East Azerbaijan Province, north-west Iran, on Friday attempted to take their lives. One of the girls Rava was saved by medics in a hospital in the city of Tabriz while Paria died due to her injuries, the regime’s state news agency IRNA said.

In a separate development, a 45-year-old man on Sunday doused himself with petrol and set himself on fire in a public square in the city of Shush, western Iran.

Poverty, deprivation and suppression in Iran under the mullahs’ regime have driven some people, in particular women and girls, to the point of taking their own lives.

Numerous cases of self-immolation in Iran in recent months have drawn special attention, including the cases of Omid Rashedi, 36, from the south-western city of Ahwaz; Mansour Keyhani, a retired teacher from Sanghar, western Iran; Ali Akbari, 45, a laborer from Tehran; Hamid Farokhi, 43, a street vendor from Tabriz, north-west Iran; and Youness Asakareh, 31, a laborer from Khorramshahr, south-western Iran. In all these cases, the self-immolations had an element of protest against the mullahs' regime.

On average, 11 people commit suicide in Iran every day, the equivalent of three in every 100,000 people,according to the website of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Iranian laborers in particular are suffering from poverty, hunger and unemployment while Iran’s great wealth is spent on domestic suppression, antinationalistic polices of export of terrorism and warmongering in the region, and weapons of mass destruction projects or is plundered by the regime’s officials.

As long as the mullahs’ regime is in power, suppression, poverty, hunger, prostitution and addiction will continue in Iran. The sole solution to end such tyranny and oppression is to topple the antihuman regime of the mullahs and establish democracy in Iran.

Man arrested for acid attack

The police arrested a man in connection with the acid attack on a woman on the Christmas eve at Pariayaram.

The arrested has been identified as Adampoyil James (46), a resident of Pilathara. The police said that the attack was motivated by the woman’s refusal of his offer to marry her, a divorcee and mother of two children. His arrest was recorded late on Monday night.

The woman, identified as Rimsy (29) of Madathil House at Embett near Pariyaram, had been seriously injured in the acid attack while she was going to the local church for the midnight mass on Christmas eve. According to the police, the arrested, wearing Santa Claus costume, ambushed her that night and poured acid he was carrying in a bottle. She has now been admitted to a Mangalore hospital. Her seven-year old son also suffered injuries in the attack.

Two Israelis arrested for flying drone over Vatican

Two Israeli citizens have been detained by police in Rome for allegedly flying a drone over the Vatican, reports The Local in Italian.

Airspace over the capital was declared a no-drone zone at the start of the jubilee year declared earlier this month by Pope Francis, over fears remote-controlled aircraft could be used in a terrorist attack.

Police patrolling the Vatican area spotted the drone, which contained a high resolution camera, flying over the Tiber River and St Peter’s Square on Sunday morning, Roma Today reported.

The police reportedly found the men on a bridge near St Peter’s. One of them was holding the drone’s remote control.

The men were taken to questioning and will likely face charges for violating the drone ban.

Security forces have been put on high alert due to fears of jihadist attacks like the Paris massacre of November 13.

Trump Criticizes Bill Clinton’s “Terrible Record of Women Abuse”

WASHINGTON – Real estate magnate and Republican frontrunner for the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, the controversial Donald Trump, said on Monday that former U.S. President Bill Clinton has a “terrible record of women abuse.”

Trump tweeted the statement as part of an attack on the former president’s wife, Hillary Clinton, who is the Democrat frontrunner for the 2016 elections.

“If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women’s card on me, she’s wrong!” Trump tweeted.

Trump did not back his comment with any examples and is the latest in his war of words with the Clinton family over matters of gender and sex discrimination.

Last weekend, Trump accused Bill Clinton (president from 1993 to 2001) of “sexism” after reports emerged about the former president’s participation in his wife’s presidential campaign.

“Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE’S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate!” Trump tweeted on Saturday.

The real estate magnate, often accused of misogyny since he launched his campaign in June, has used insults and provocation as his main battle strategy, which for now has not dented his popularity in the surveys, which he continues to lead.

Mob try's to burn robber's to death

LA PAZ – Bolivian police rescued a pair of accused robbers from an enraged mob in the central part of the Chapare region before local residents could burn them alive.

The incident occurred early Sunday morning, when two young men identified by the initials J.C.O.H. and E.A.S.P. stole a woman’s motorcycle and were cornered by her neighbors, the Chapare police chief, Daniel Merida, told the state-run ABI news agency.

“A crowd of about 150 to 200 enraged people wanted to kill the two young men by beating them and setting them on fire,” Merida said.

Police were alerted to the lynching by telephone and managed to arrive on the scene in time to prevent the deaths of the two thieves, who had been tied to a post.

After talking with the townspeople for an hour, the officers were able to rescue the two men, one of whom was taken to a hospital in nearby Villa Tunari and the other to a health center in the city of Cochabamba “due to the seriousness of his injuries,” the police chief said.

Police are investigating whether the pair have criminal records and how the woman acquired the motorcycle, given that she did not have a title for the vehicle.

Lynchings in Bolivia often occur and a de facto death penalty carried out by mobs often prevails, particularly in rural or indigenous parts of the country.

The mobs always claim that they are applying community justice reserved for the country’s Indian population, as recognized in the 2009 Constitution, although the charter does not allow for capital – or even physical forms of – punishment.

This year, there have been 32 recorded lynching attempts in which five alleged criminals died, according to a report presented in early December by the national ombudsman’s office.

Baby killed in ambush in Mexico

OAXACA, Mexico – Gunmen opened fire on a pick-up truck carrying several passengers outside Sola de Vega, a city in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, killing four people, including a baby, and wounding two others over the weekend, state officials told EFE.

The ambush occurred on Sunday in the La Pihua section of Paso Ancho, a community near Sola de Vega and San Vicente Coatlan, in the Sierra Sur region, the Oaxaca Public Safety Secretariat said.

The Nissan double-cab pick-up truck was heading to Sola de Vega after making stops in several cities, the secretariat said in a statement.

Unidentified gunmen hidden in the underbrush and armed with large-caliber weapons opened fire on the vehicle at some distance, hitting it as the driver was completing his trip.

The driver, two adult women and a 7-month-old baby girl were among those killed in the attack, the secretariat said.

Another woman, identified as 38-year-old Cristina Rios Jarquin, and her 3-year-old daughter were wounded in the attack.

The two wounded passengers were transported to the regional hospital in Sola de Vega.

State officials have not provided additional details or a motive for the attack.

Sola de Vega is located about 90 minutes from Oaxaca city, the state capital.

Powerful Drug Trafficker among 4 People Killed in Western Mexico

MORELIA, Mexico – Carlos Rosales Mendoza, who founded the Familia Michoacana drug cartel and was a close associate of former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was killed in western Mexico, officials said.

Rosales Mendoza’s body was found on Monday and he appears to have been tortured, prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan said.

The powerful drug trafficker’s body was discovered along with those of three other men, the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office said.

Mexican officials considered Rosales Mendoza a dangerous drug trafficker who had the ability to organize drug gangs and enjoyed the Gulf cartel’s support.

The bodies of Rosales Mendoza and the other three men were found on the Siglo XXI highway, which links Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, and the Pacific coast.

The bodies, which had gunshot wounds and showed signs of torture, were dumped in the parking lot of the toll plaza in Santa Casilda, a town outside the city of Gabriel Zamora.

Rosales Mendoza was arrested in October 2004 at his residence south of Morelia after the government said he organized an attack by more than 40 gunmen on Jan. 5 of that year on the prison in the city of Apatzingan, where 25 inmates, including five extremely dangerous hitmen, escaped.

The drug trafficker left prison in May 2014 and was arrested on gun charges in August, but he managed to post bail.