Navajo NEWS ( Smart phones allow Native American language through text messaging and social media )

New Navajo Keyboard app for Android released

Posted: Sep 21, 2013 3:48 PM by Associated Press

 

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Android users can now text each other in Navajo thanks to a new app.

KUNM-FM reports that the company Native Innovations recently released the Navajo Keyboard app to allow smart phone users to practice their skills in the Native American language through text messaging and social media.

The new app comes loaded with all of the traditional Navajo characters and 65 pre-made phrases to help beginners through any basic conversation. It can also act as a user's primary keyboard.

Native Innovations President Jerome Tsosie says the Navajo Keyboard has been available to iPhone users since February. But because there are more android users on the Navajo Nation, Tsosie says the android release was in high demand.

Japan ( Russian woman throws 4-year-old son from ship into lake )

Crime Sep. 19, 2013 - 12:30PM JST ( 29 )

YAMANASHI —

Police in Yamanashi Prefecture have have arrested a Russian woman for throwing her 4-year-old son from a pleasure boat while on a cruise at Lake Yamanaka.
According to police, the 33-year-old woman, who lives in Yamanakako, was arrested after she allegedly threw her son off the deck of the boat and into the water at around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday, TBS reported.
Police say the woman’s Japanese husband jumped into the water to rescue the boy, who was not injured in the incident. The woman was arrested on a charge of attempted murder.
During police questioning, she was quoted by police as saying that she had had a fight with her husband and threw the boy into the water with the intention of killing him and then committing suicide by jumping in herself, TBS reported.

Kenya ( Mall shooting update - possible 30 people killed ) Video

Honduras ( Female Lawyer Gunned Down - 67 lawyers killed since 2010 )

TEGUCIGALPA – The shooting death of an attorney in the northern city of San Pedro Sula brought to 67 the number of lawyers slain in Honduras since the beginning of 2010, police said Wednesday.

Dinia Mercedes Acosta, 40, was killed Tuesday night.

She was driving through San Pedro Sula’s Las Palmas neighborhood when unknown assailants on a motorcycle pulled alongside her vehicle and starting shooting, witnesses said.

Investigators have no leads in the case, a police source told reporters.

Acosta is the 67th attorney murdered in Honduras during the administration of President Porfirio Lobo, who took office Jan. 27, 2010, according to figures compiled by the official Human Rights Commission.

Honduras suffered 85.5 homicides for every 100,000 residents in 2012, compared with a global median rate of 8.8 murders per 100,000, the Violence Observatory at the National Autonomous University said in a study released in February.

Violence escalated sharply in the Central American nation in the wake of the June 2009 coup that ousted President Mel Zelaya, as political strife added to the carnage wrought by criminal gangs. EFE

MEXICO CITY ( Cop Implicated in Bar Kidnapping, Mexican Prosecutors Say )

MEXICO CITY – A police officer has been arrested in connection with the May 26 kidnapping of 13 people from a Mexico City bar and their subsequent murder, the district attorney said.

The suspect, Edgar Ernesto Gutierrez Vega, joined the municipal police force six years ago, Rodolfo Rios told a press conference, adding that the officer appears to have been tipping off drug dealers about planned busts.

Gutierrez’s standard of living “did not correspond” to his salary as a police officer, the district attorney said.

The officer was not on duty at the time of the mass kidnapping, Rios said.

Six people are in custody and facing charges in the case, while seven others remain free, but subject to court supervision.

Judges are still deciding the status of Gutierrez and another suspect who has a record of arrests for drug trafficking, Rios said.

The bodies of the people snatched in May from the Heaven bar in Mexico City’s upscale Zona Rosa district were discovered last month by federal authorities pursuing leads in a firearms case unrelated to the Heaven kidnappings.

Investigators found the mass grave – covered with cement, asbestos and lime – on the La Mesa ranch in Tlalmanalco, Mexico state.

Autopsy results and other forensic evidence indicates the victims were killed within hours of their abduction, Rios told reporters.

Authorities say the mass abduction and murder was carried out in reprisal for the May 24 killing of Horacio Vite Angel, a reputed member of the La Union de Insurgentes drug gang, by the rival La Union de Tepito group.

One of the people taken from the bar and killed, 16-year-old Jerzy Ortiz, was the son of Jorge “El Tanque” Ortiz Reyes, the jailed boss of La Union de Tepito, officials said. EFE

Iran ( Woman Human Rights Lawyer released from Prison - Also Several other women )

Iran Human Rights Welcomes Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and Urges For Release of All Prisoners of Conscious in Iran

2013-09-18 19:27:55

[English] [فارسى]

Iran Human Rights, September 18: The prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was released from jail on Wednesday along with several other political prisoners who had been jailed in connection with the post-election protests in 2009.
According to the state run Iranian news agency ISNA, along with Nasrin Sotoudeh several other prisoners have been released. These prisoners include the reformist politicians Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mirtaher Mousavi, Mehdi Mahmoudian, Mohammad Ali Velayati and Hassan Zarinpour, said the report. The ISNA report also said that "according to unconfirmed reports the women prisoners Mahsa Amrabadi, Mahboubeh Karami, Maryam Jalili, Mitra Rahimi, Farah Vazehan, Zhila Mahvandi and Kefayat Malekmohammadi were also released.
The Opposition website Kaleme (close to Mirhossein Mousavi) reported on Wednesday that seven other women political prisoners had also been released in the previous 24 hours, including the dissident journalist Mahsa Amrabadi, and at least four men, including reformist politicians Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mirtaher Mousavi and former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh.
Iran Human Rights (IHR) welcomes the release of the human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and other political prisoners and urges for release of all prisoners of conscious in the Iranian prisons. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR said: " We are very glad that these prisoners are released after spending several years behind the bars just of their political and civil activities, but we should remember all the other prisoners of conscious who are still in prison, such as: the Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, the student leader Majid Tavakoli who was sentenced to 8 years in prison just for expressing his opinions is still in Rajai Shahr Prison of hasn’t had furlough in four years, the activist Hossein Ronaghi is still in prison despite his serious health condition, the five Azeri civil rights activists Latif Hassani, Mahmoud Fazli, Shahram Radmehr, Ayat Mehralibeiglu and Behboud Gholizadeh were recently sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment only for starting an NGO, Five Arab activists Mohammad Ali Amourinezhad, Seyed Jaber Alboshokeh, Mokhtar Alboshokeh, Hashem Sha’bani Nezhad and Hashem Rashedi are still under danger of execution, and the Kurdish prisoners Loghman and Zanyar Moradi who were sentenced to death based on their confessions under torture, are still on the death row, and there are many more".
"We urge the international community and the Iranian civil society to continue their efforts until all prisoners of conscious are released from the Iranian prisons".
"Iranian people’s human rights must be the first priority in any dialogue between the members of the international community and the Iranian authorities", He ended.

Mexico Acapulco ( A man's body was found on a dirt road - He had been Executed ) Suspects wanted

Man Executed in Acapulco
Saturday, September 21, 2013  The body of a man with his hands tied behind his back and hung with wire tourniquet was found on a dirt road to the dwelling unit Augustine, Acapulco.


The body was found face down, hands and feet bound and his head covered with a green cloth, neck tourniquet of wire and a piece of wood.

The man wore a blue bermuda, white shirt and blue boxer shorts and green shirt which  was used to cover his face.
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