Iran News

 Iran News : Masih Alinejad WASHINGTON, July 13 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged four Iranians, alleged to be intelligence operatives for Tehran, with plotting to kidnap a New York journalist and human rights activist.

Mexico- 6 Police Officers and Jail Director Arrested for Alleged Murder of Hidalgo Doctor

 State authorities in Hidalgo have arrested six municipal police officers and a jail director in the murder of a medical doctor. Dr. Beatriz Hernández, 29, was arrested after a traffic accident on Wednesday of last week in Progreso de Obregón. She was driving a compact car and was involved in a four-car collision.

Because the accident was spectacular, Beatriz got out of her car to help the people involved, as she was a doctor at the Actopan General Hospital and Immediate Response Hospital. Witnesses of the accident assured that there was no refusal to assume her responsibility and the payment of the damages on her part.

However, she was violently detained by agents of the Progreso Obregón police and taken to the primary detention cells where she died hours later. The officers claimed she was intoxicated and took her into custody.

According to a press release issued by local authorities, Hernández was sent to a retention area before police took a break to eat. When they returned, they found that Hernández was dead.

The municipal government said on social media that before her death Hernández was visited by a man who said he was her father. She was later found “suspended by an object around her throat,” they said. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where her death was confirmed.

But according to a report by the news service ADN40, her father determined that Hernández had been beaten and asked police officers that she be released. He left his daughter to find out what the charges were against her but when he returned jail personnel were attempting to resuscitate the woman. The state Attorney General’s Office is investigating the death as a possible femicide.

Friends and family of the deceased gathered Thursday to protest and demand more information about the death. The Progreso de Obregón government maintains that Hernández was inebriated and took her own life after a fight with her father.

The mayor said in a press release that the local police officers’ arrests were illegal, given that they had voluntarily given witness statements. The mayor also said 50 state police officers turned up at municipal police headquarters and seized officers’ weapons.

Through social networks, friends of Beatriz demanded justice for her case, assuring that she was attacked by elements of the police prior to her death.

“Today a friend and colleague passed away! Beatriz Ruiz !!! It is unknown what would have happened at the hands of municipal police, she was treated badly, insults and strangling Bety, this in a town called #ProgresoDeObregon in the state of Hidalgo,” said David Toledo who identified himself as a friend of the victim in social networks.

German Citizen Goes Missing in Cancún; Five More Women Disappeared Days Earlier

Regine Beatrix Roessler, 62, a German citizen and resident of Mexico, went missing in Cancún, Quintana Roo, last week and has not been located. On social media, relatives of the woman indicated that she is a resident of Isla Mujeres. They said that she boarded the ferry to Cancun to retrieve money from a bank and then go shopping. She intended to go to a Costco store near Kabah Park but never made it there. 

The last time she was seen, she was wearing a light colored dress, heels, and a black bag. She speaks German, English and some Spanish. The Quintana Roo Attorney General's Office launched the "ALBA Protocol" to locate her. This measure triggers special attention, reaction and coordination between the three levels of administration (local, state and federal) when a woman goes missing. It was first implemented in Ciudad Juárez and was later adopted across Mexico. Two days before she was reported missing, five women disappeared in a span of five days. The are María Antonia Perez López, Youssi Emili González, Dorcas Córdova García, Marisol López Arcos, and Julia Altagracia José Vilomar. Three of them are minors.

Utah- Draper teenager hospitalized with blood clots after COVID-19 vaccine shot

 

Antifa News

 An Antifa member in Portland who was charged with felony arson and riot crimes has been revealed to be a journalism student at the University of Oregon.

Alma Yesenia Raven-Guido, 19, of Beaverton, Ore., has been charged by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office with two counts of felony rioting, second-degree felony arson and first-degree felony criminal mischief. A serial riot arrestee, she was arrested again Tuesday night at a Black Lives Matter-Antifa riot in north Portland where the police union hall was set on fire. 

German held after racist attack on Syrian caught on video

 BERLIN: A 39-year-old German man has been arrested in connection with a racist attack on a teenage refugee in the eastern city of Erfurt that was captured on video, officials said Monday.

The governor of Thuringia state, where Erfurt is located, called the attack that took place late Friday in one of the city’s trams “simply disgusting.”

“The perpetrator has been caught,” the governor, Bodo Ramelow, wrote on Twitter. “Such a cowardly person, strong and aggressive against someone who was defenseless.”
A video circulating on social media shows a man standing over the seated victim, repeatedly insulting and spitting at him, and then kicking him in the face.
Erfurt police said the 17-year-old victim from Syria, suffered minor injuries in the attack, which followed a verbal argument.
Witnesses on the tram alerted officers, who were able to identify the suspect based on the video as he was already known to police.
Anti-racism groups say there were 102 cases of far-right and antisemitic violence in Thuringia last year.

Spain: 17 dead in migrant boat found drifting off Canaries

 BARCELONA: Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says at least 17 people are believed to have died aboard a migrant boat found adrift off the Canary Islands.

A Spanish military helicopter airlifted three survivors and was bringing them to land, a spokesperson with Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said.

The migrant boat was first spotted by a Spanish Air Force plane drifting in the Atlantic Ocean some 265 nautical miles from the island of El Hierro Monday morning. A search and rescue vessel was deployed to the area but wasn’t expected to reach the boat carrying the 17 bodies until Tuesday afternoon.
The Atlantic sea journey from the Western coast of Africa to the Spanish archipelago has become a major route for migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing conflict, violence and economic hardship exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Some 4,000 people have reached the Canaries so far this year according to Spain’s Interior Ministry.