Iran - 148 lashes for woman and 10 years in prison

Marzieh Amiri was sentenced to 10-year and six months prison term and 148 lashes

Posted on: August 24th, 2019

Marzieh Amiri, a journalist at Shargh newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison and 148 lashes by the Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court on August 24, 2019. She was arrested alongside several labor activists who had been arrested during a protest demonstration in Tehran on the International Labor Day.

On May 1, police arrested Marzieh Amiri while covering a Labor Day demonstration in front of the Iranian parliament building in Tehran. Police arrested several labor activists during the rally. She was detained and interrogated in ward 2-Alef of Evin Prison, which is under the supervision of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Organization. A week after, she was transferred to the solidarity confinement in ward 209 of the Evin Prison which is under administration of Ministry of Intelligence. Eventually, on June 8, 2019, she was transferred to women’s ward of the Evin Prison.

She received her indictment on July 3, 2019 when she was transferred to the Branch 28 of Revolutionary Court in Tehran. She was charged with “assembly and collusion”, “propaganda against the state”, and “disrupting public order”.

She was tried on August 13, 2019, at the Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, led by judge Mohammad Moghiseh. Her sister, Samira Amiri, wrote on her personal page on social media that Marzieh was sentenced to 148 lashes and 10 and a half years in prison. Based on the Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, the charge with the highest penalty will be considered; this means that Marzieh Amiri should serve six years in prison. Judge Moghiseh has denied her requests to set a bail and her temporary release for medical treatment although she suffered once from epileptic seizure in prison.

Sex offender wanted by FBI.

A felony arrest warrant was issued for Navarrete Jr. on June 19, according to the FBI. He is charged with four counts of lewd acts with a child under 14, three counts of sex acts with a child under 10 and four counts of oral sex with a child under 10.

FBI

Jose Arturo Navarrete, Jr.

A federal arrest warrant was issued on Aug. 22 after Navarrete Jr. was charged with “unlawful flight to avoid prosecution," officials said.

Navarrete Jr. was last seen in Texas. Officials said he may be in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas or Mexico.

The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information

New York- Man arrested for hate crimes.

MANHATTAN — Police have made an arrest in a series of hate crime attacks in Manhattan earlier this month , one of which a woman was hit with a brick.

Todd Lyons, 33, was taken into custody Friday afternoon for his alleged involvement in the incidents that occurred between Aug. 9 and Aug. 14. He faces assault and hate crime assault charges.

Tucson AZ - New tunnel found west of Deconcini Port of Entry.

TUCSON, Ariz. – On Sunday, U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered the second cross-border tunnel running beneath the streets of Nogales in less than a week.

Nogales Border Patrol agents
located a tunnel west of the
DeConcini Crossing on
Sunday

Tucson Sector agents discovered the tunnel west of the Deconcini Port of Entry and only 50 yards east of the tunnel discovered days prior.

Mexico’s Policia Federal subsequently located the tunnel’s entrance in the floor of the existing Grand Avenue Drainage System in Mexico. The tunnel followed the footer of the International Boundary Fence at a depth of about 10 feet, crossed beneath it, and came up approximately 5 feet north of the fence.

Agents discovered the 125th
border tunnel within the
Tucson Sector

U.S. authorities remediated the tunnel on Monday, December 9. This is the 125th tunnel discovered in the Tucson Sector since 1990 and the second discovered this month.

U.S. Border Patrol frequently works with strategic partners to conduct joint operations, and binational cooperation with Mexico plays a vital role in border security. These efforts aim to prevent the movement of illegal contraband or persons across the border. 

Harvard Divinity School on Jihad

Jihad was also invoked against regimes that came into power after the colonial governments fell. Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), a prominent member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, opposed the regime of President Gamal ‘Abdel Nasser, asserting that it was contrary to Islamic principles. During nearly a decade of imprisonment and torture, Qutb called for the overthrow of “un-Islamic” regimes by violence if necessary and invoked the doctrine of jihad. His writings continue to inspire radical groups that use the concept of jihad to justify violence. The most significant reinterpretation of jihad in recent times took place in the context of the Cold War when a coalition of several nations, led by the United States, co-opted and endorsed a militant form of jihad in their battle against communism after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979.

These are not the only possible meanings of jihad, or even the most popular meanings as understood by Muslims through time and space. Muslims also speak of a jihad of the tongue and jihad of the pen as ways to express the teachings of Islam. Some Muslims have understood jihad in ethical terms, conceiving of it as a person’s inner struggle against the impulses of the ego, such as greed, anger, and jealousy—what the Prophet Muhammad himself referred to as the “greater jihad.”

In another sense, some Muslims consider jihad to be a human being’s struggle to fulfill one’s obligations to family and society. In the context of the modern nation state, jihad has been used to refer to a state-sponsored program that is non-military in nature. For example, President Bourguiba of Tunisia and General Musharraf of Pakistan employed the term in the context of eliminating illiteracy, poverty, and economic stagnation to promote economic and social development in their countries.

Mexico News- Three young people visited Veracruz and Vanish.

 The Family members began searching for them through networks; Starting at 11 p.m. on Friday, December 6, the three young person’s phones were turned off.

In social networks the notice of the disappearance of university student Astrid Carolina Rocas Castañeda  21 years, in addition to Cristian Viveros Zorrilla  23 and David Nieva Arizmendi 25, who were in Veracruz. The state of Veracruz is known as "Mexico's graveyard" because of the number of mass graves uncovered there.

A CBP K9 sniffed out $453K in meth hidden in a passenger vehicle at the Laredo Port of Entry. Learn more via @CBPSouthTexas: https://t.co/IyYpCOv00q pic.twitter.com/PnQET06Lfa

— CBP (@CBP) December 12, 2019