Anonymous Group ( Threatens U.S citizens in Federal Witness Protection program ) Terrorist act

Hackers Infect Government Websites with 'Asteroids' Game

By Paul Wagensil | LiveScience.com – 1 hr 20 mins ago

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Hackers angry over the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz took over the website of the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) twice over the weekend, finally infecting the homepage with a playable version of the classic arcade game "Asteroids."

The hackers, claiming affiliation with the online movement Anonymous, also claimed to release a list of people in the federal Witness Security Program, also known as the Witness Protection Program, but that was quickly discovered to be a hoax.

Blood of the martyr

The attack began late Friday (Jan. 25), when the homepage of the USSC, which sets sentencing guidelines for federal courts, was defaced with a video regarding the prosecution of Swartz.

"We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the discretion of prosecutors," said a voiceover on the video. "We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control."

Swartz, who hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month at the age of 26, was facing decades in federal prison for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents from an online archive to a laptop hidden on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to a report released last week, local authorities in Boston had not intended to seek any jail time for Swartz.

Federal prosecutors then took over the case, first indicting Swartz on four charges that carried a maximum penalty of 35 years in prison, then adding nine more charges in a second indictment that increased the possible prison time to 50 years.

Two weeks ago, Anonymous defaced the websites of MIT and the U.S. Department of Justice in Swartz's memory.

Florida ( Missing woman -Husband charged with her death) Vilet Torrez

It was Feb. 24, girls’ night out. Best friends Vilet Torrez and Clarissa Garcia went out to the Cheesecake Factory, where they ordered drinks and split a slice of cheesecake.
They laughed and chatted and caught up on the things best friends talk about over drinks and desserts: their families, their children, their marriages.

And, yet again, Garcia advised her friend she had to leave her husband.
She was tired of hearing the stories of how Cid Torrez beat her and then swore every time afterward he would never do it again. She was sick of seeing Vilet with bruises.
“What’s it gonna take? Your death? A casket?” Garcia asked.
“Oh, my good friend, he wouldn’t do that,” Torrez said.
Torrez went missing five weeks later.
Friends, family and former co-workers of Torrez all believe her husband, Cid, is behind her disappearance. Miramar police and prosecutors agreed and — despite the lack of a body, or an eyewitness, or a weapon — charged the 39-year-old with murder. Such murder charges don’t always stick, as evidenced by the just-completed murder trial of Geralyn Wilson, foster mother of Rilya Wilson. It was another case of no body, no witnesses, no murder weapon. Geralyn Wilson was convicted of lesser charges.
Cid’s family expressed disbelief that he would harm, much less kill and dispose of, the mother of his three children, although they acknowledged the marriage had turned toxic.
Cid Torrez has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial in a Broward jail.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/26/3202276/the-missing-miramar-mom-a-tale.html#storylink=cpy

Mexico (Kombo Kolombia band - killed tortured and Dismembered ) see story

Kombo Kolombia Band Tortured and Dismembered

Monday, January 28, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterChivis

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16 Members and 4 others went missing Thursday at least 8 bodies found

Authorities of Nuevo Leon state performed an intense mobilization in the municipality of Mina on Sunday afternoon after an anonymous call alerted the whereabouts of the members of the musical group Kombo Kolombia. The group was kidnapped by an armed group last Friday morning.

 

 

The police officers received the mysterious call and headed to the location given to them. At kilometer 92 of the highway to Monclova, a water well (other reports say "mine") was located and several bodies inside.

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Troopers of the Civil Force, the Mexican Army, and Federal Police secured the area to allow staff of the State Agency of Investigations to perform their work.

The clandestine grave was found near a road to El Espinazo community.

Credible reports indicate that the l bodies have been found in that location. The anonymous call to the authorities also mentioned the bodies were from members of the Kombo Kolombia band.

Other reports mention that the members of the Kombo Kolombia band were tortured and executed. The bodies were dismembered and buried in the clandestine grave.

It was after a private performance on Thursday night that the band disappeared from the city of Hidalgo about 80 miles north of Monterrey and 40 miles south of the US border. On Friday at 4 AM citizens in the area where the bodies were found hear a series of gunshots and vehicles speeding away.

One unidentified member managed to escape and alert the army. He reports that they were loaded onto a truck at the La Carreta and taken in front of a well/mine at which time he managed to run and jump into a hole and hide.

Most of the band members lived in Monterrey and at least one is a citizen of Colombia.

It is not known why the group would be targeted, unlike other bands they did not sing narco corridos, songs that glorify drug traffickers. They stayed away from that genre of music.

Authorities are keep quiet and not sharing details but unofficial reports say at least 8 bodies were found at the site. Keep in mind authorities have only confirmed that 8 bodies were retrieved so far, other details have been from other sources.

India ( Family of Rape victim want Juvenile to face death penalty ) An eye for an eye

Uttar Pradesh: The family of the Delhi gangrape victim today termed the Juvenile Justice Board’s decision of ruling the sixth accused in the case as minor as “unfortunate” and said that they would challenge it in the court.
“The family would consult legal experts and challenge the matter in the relevant court,” the brother of the girl said over phone from Delhi.
“The family is not ready to accept that the sixth accused get anything less than death penalty,” the brother said, adding that the minor accused should also get the same punishment of death penalty for which the central government should make necessary changes in the law.

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“How can the family accept that the main accused is let off with a mere three year imprisonment,” he asked.
On the decision of the Juvenile Board, the brother said that it is based on his school documents whereas he should have been sent for medical examination.
He expressed apprehension of some kind of “fraud” in mentioning the date of birth in school documents and alleged that the minor accused was the one who had played the main role in the incident

Iran ( Women Human rights bloggers - Put in Evin Prison ) Just a few of many

Human Rights (Defender)
2011, awarded the Swedish Per Anger prize on October 25, 2011, sentence reduced to 6 years in prison on February 14, 2012, summoned to Evin prison to serve sentence on April 21, 2012, transferred to Evin clinic after nervous paralysis, transferred to Zanjan prison on May 17, 2012, temporarily released for medical care on 30 July 2012

  . Rojin Mohammadi, blogger, medical student, arrested after returning to Iran, transferred to Evin prison on November 23, 2011


Tahmineh Monzavi, freelance photo-journalist, arrested on unknown charges in Tehran on February 18, 2012

Tahmineh Monzavi

 

FBI ( Taunted by Anonymous Group - They Hijack Federal Website )

Anonymous Hijacks Federal Website Over Aaron Swartz Suicide

By Matthew Larotonda | ABC News Blogs – 23 hours ago

 

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Activists from the hacker collective known as Anonymous assumed control over the homepage of a federal judicial agency this morning.

In a manifesto left on the defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and what the activists said are threats to the free flow of information.

The lengthy essay largely mirrors previous demands from Anonymous, but this time the group also cited the recent suicide of Reddit co-founder and activist Aaron Swartz as has having "crossed a line" for their organization. Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison on computer fraud charges.

Prosecutors said he had stolen thousands of digital scientific and academic journal articles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the goal of disseminating them for free.

Read More: Aaron Swartz' Death Fuels MIT Probe, White House Petition to Oust Prosecutor

Anonymous says Swartz was "killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win - a twisted and distorted perversion of justice - a game where the only winning move was not to play."

"There must be a return to proportionality of punishment with respect to actual harm caused," it reads, also mentioning recent arrests of Anonymous associates by the FBI.

In their statement, the hackers say they targeted the homepage of the Federal Sentencing Commission for "symbolic" reasons.

The group claimed that if their demands were not met they would release a trove of embarrassing internal Justice Department documents to media outlets. Anonymous named the files after Supreme Court justices and provided hyperlinks to them from the defaced page.

As of press time the commission's site had been taken offline but an earlier attempt by CNN to follow the files' links yielded dead-ends, mostly offline sites.

The file names use an ".aes256? suffix, denoting a common encryption protocol. The same system was used to encrypt the Wikileaks Afghan war documents before their release.

Nashik India ( Cop Suspended for no action on woman's complaint ) She committed suicide

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Top cop suspended for not taking action on woman’s complaint
Nashik: A police inspector here was suspended for reportedly not acting on a harassment complaint by a woman against two persons following which she committed suicide, police said today.
Nashik Commissioner of Police Kulwant Kumar Sarangal yesterday suspended Satpur police station’s senior inspector
Kondiram Popere as he did not take action on the complaint of 43-year-old widow Nirmala Bhaskar Shinde.

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In her complaint filed on 2 January, the woman had alleged that two unidentified persons used to harass her
whenever she returned home from work at an industrial unit and would also make calls on her cellphone, police said.
In her complaint, she had also provided the vehicle and mobile phone numbers of the accused.
However, fed up with the harassment, she ended her life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house last
week. Later, a probe was conducted into the case following which the errant police official was suspended, police said.
Meanwhile, police have arrested one person, identified as Rajesh Aher, from city’s Panchavati area for allegedly
harassing the 43-year-old woman. Aher was arrested two days ago in connection with the case, police said, adding that, search was on for the other accused.