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Saudi Arabia: 32 accused of spying for Iranian regime stand trial

A group of 32 people including an Iranian national who have been accused of spying for the Iranian regime’s Intelligence appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Riyadh on Sunday.

The court presented a list of accusations prepared by the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) against the members of the cell that also includes Saudis and an Afghan national.

The spy ring divulged defense secrets and strove to carry out acts of sabotage in the kingdom, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.

“They were accused of high treason against their country and the King by breaching their loyalty to the nation and setting up links with Iranian Intelligence and providing them with highly confidential information,” Saudi Gazette reported.

“The ring recruited people in government departments and trained them to send coded information to Iranian Intelligence.”

“Some of them also met Ali Khamenei,” the Iranian regime’s supreme leader, the report said.

IRAN: Death sentence of young Kurdish man becomes definite

The Iranian judiciary has finalized the death sentence that had been handed dwon to a young Kurdish man who was under the age of 18 at the time of attributed crime.

The country’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence issued for a young man by the name of Heyman Uraminezhad.

This young man is currently held in Sanandaj Central Prison waiting for his sentence to be carried out.

Heyman is currently 21 years old and was convicted on premeditated murder by the Sanandaj Prime Court.

Iran under the rule of the clerical regime is one of the leading executioners of juvenile offenders, Amnesty International said Monday.

In a new report, Amnesty International said last month that it had documented the execution of at least 73 juveniles in Iran from 2005 to 2015 and that 160 juvenile offenders are languishing on the country’s death row.

According to the Amnesty International, the report was based on information received from death-penalty opponents and human rights defenders in Iran, as well as from lawyers and relatives of juveniles convicted of capital crimes in Iran.

Now that Iran is emerging from an era of international sanctions and is seeking broader acceptance, Ms. Auerbach said, rights groups are hoping that the Iranian authorities “realize they have to act in accordance with international human rights standards.”

There have been over 2,300 executions in Iran since Hassan Rouhani has been in office, more than in any similar period in the past 25 years.

The victims include political dissidents like Gholamreza Khosravi, an activist of Iran’s principal opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) who was hanged solely for providing financial assistance to a satellite television station supporting the opposition.

On April 20, 2014 Rouhani described these executions as “God’s commandments” and “laws of the parliament that belongs to the people.”

Panama Has Seized 6.4 Tons of Illicit Drugs So Far in 2016

PANAMA CITY – Panamanian authorities have seized 6.4 tons of drugs and arrested 72 alleged drug traffickers so far this year, the Public Safety Ministry reported Sunday.

The suspects belong to four bands using shell companies in small towns around Panama City, namely Juan Diaz, Parque Lefevre, Betania and Rio Abajo, “where they warehoused large shipments of drugs, to send them later to Central America, the United States and the Caribbean,” the ministry said in a statement.

The arrests and seizures were made in 30 anti-drug operations in the provinces of Panama Oeste, Colon, Veraguas and Chiriqui.

The National Police seized 3,368 kilograms of drugs and more than a million dollars in cash, and the Senan air-sea service seized 2,750 kg of narcotics and other drugs.

Meanwhile, the National Border Service seized 253 kg of cocaine and 39 packages of marijuana.

Of the total seizures, 4.5 tons consisted of cocaine and at least 1.3 tons consisted of pot.

Official figures reveal that 2015 was the biggest year in the past decade for drug seizures in Panama, with at least 58.1 tons confiscated, according to the latest government tally.

14 yr old Teen Arrested in Murder of Peruvian Professor in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO – Civil Police in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro arrested Friday a 14-year-old boy accused of murdering Peruvian university professor Carlos Patricio Mercado Samanez, whose body was found with stab wounds, officials said.

The suspected murderer apparently confessed the homicide to his parents, who chose to notify the authorities, the G1 news Web site reported Friday.

The chief motive being weighed by police is that the slaying, which took place Monday afternoon when the professor went to take his dog for a walk, was the consequence of a robbery.

However, despite the arrest of the suspected murderer, his belongings have still not been found, so an investigation has been opened to determine whether someone else might have taken part in the crime.

Mercado Samanez, 62, has resided more than 30 years in Rio de Janeiro, teaching at the Pontifical Catholic University, or PUC, and Rio de Janeiro State University, or UERJ.

The Peruvian’s body was found in a canal at Quinta de Boa Vista, a park in the city’s downtown area with extensive green zones, and was taken to the medical examiners’ office, where his relatives identified him on Tuesday.

Mercado, who wrote several books on the mathematics of finance, was the coordinator of an industrial engineering program at the PUC and was an associate professor of economics at the UERJ.

The late professor earned an industrial engineering degree at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. He later received a master’s in production engineering and earned a doctorate in business administration, finance and economics.

Mexican Authorities Seized 438 Kilos of Cocaine in Western Port

MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors seized 438 kilos of cocaine that arrived in Manzanillo, a port in the western Mexican state of Colima, from Buenaventura, Colombia’s main Pacific port, the federal Attorney General’s Office said.

“The federal prosecutor in the area, with the support of law enforcement agents and investigators from the Criminal Investigations Agency (AIC), inspected three containers,” the AG’s office said in a statement.

Seven suitcases holding 363 bricks of cocaine, with a total weight of 438 kilos and 240 grams, were found in the containers, the AG’s office said.

“The items secured were retained by the federal prosecutor, who continues investigating” the drug case, the AG’s office said.

The Colima unit of the AG’s office worked with the marine corps and the SAT tax agency on the drug bust.

Cocaine shipments arriving from Buenaventura, Colombia, have been seized in the past in Manzanillo.

Officials seized 123 kilos of cocaine that arrived from the Colombian port city in August 2015.