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Bahrain on Video : Police Interrogation of Youth Making False Confession Goes Viral - IBTimes UK
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/478263/20130613/bahrain-video-police-youth-ali-marhoon-torture.htm

Bahrain on Video: Police Interrogation of Youth Making False Confession Goes Viral

[...]
The footage, uploaded by Bahrain’s security officer Abdulrahman Al Mannai, depicts the interrogation on a young man called Hussain Jamil Jaffar Ali Marhoon, from Hamad Town.

Repris par la presse

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Syrians accuse Greece of ’pushing back’ migrant boats

Some of the Syrians fleeing the conflict in their country have crossed Turkey aiming for Greece, in order to claim asylum in the European Union. But to get there they have to take to boats - and there have been persistent reports of Greek officials pushing them back into Turkish waters, sometimes with fatal results.

►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22757485

#Grèce #migration #asile #syriens #refoulements #frontière

Turkish protests grow as Erdogan calls counter-demonstrations - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/10/turk-j10.html

Turkish protests grow as Erdogan calls counter-demonstrations
By Alex Lantier
10 June 2013

Protests against the Islamist government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew over the weekend, as Erdogan called counter-demonstrations by his supporters next weekend and warned that his ability to tolerate the protests “has a limit.”

#turquie

Syrians accuse Greece of ’pushing back’ migrant boats

Some of the Syrians fleeing the conflict in their country have crossed Turkey aiming for Greece, in order to claim asylum in the European Union. But to get there they have to take to boats - and there have been persistent reports of Greek officials pushing them back into Turkish waters, sometimes with fatal results.

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►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22757485

#asile #migration #Grèce #Turquie #refoulements

Bahrain court jails 3 protesters : lawyer | GulfNews.com
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahrain-court-jails-3-protesters-lawyer-1.1192240

A Bahrain court on Monday jailed three protesters for up to 15 years on charges including attempting to kill a policeman and taking part in anti-government demonstrations, a lawyer said.
The main defendant was given 15 years for trying to kill the officer, as well as joining protests and taking part in violence in June 2012 in a village near the capital Manama, the lawyer said.
The second got 10 years, also for attempted murder and participating in protests and violence, while the third was jailed for five years, the lawyer said, requesting anonymity.

UN peacekeeping missions: who provides the most troops | News | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/apr/30/un-peacekeeping-missions-mapped

UN peacekeeping missions: who provides the most troops

Is the UN the world’s policeman? It tries to keep the peace in some of the world’s most violent countries in the world - and has just approved a new peacekeeping force in Mali. So, who pays the bill - and where are the personnel based? Click on the map below to explore the data - search for countries and hit ’share view’ to share your zoom on twitter and Facebook

#cartographie-participative #nations-unies #opérations_de_maintien_de_la_paix

Iraq continues using fake bomb detectors
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraq-continues-using-fake-bomb-detectors

James McCormick, a British businessman, made an estimated £50 million ($76 million/59 million euros) selling the “bomb detectors,” based on a novelty golf ball finder, to Iraq and other countries. He was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in jail for fraud.

But despite the sentencing and overwhelming evidence that the devices are worthless, the Iraqi government has not taken them out of circulation.

Relying on bomb detectors that do not work is an especially grave issue in Iraq, where violence is a major problem and bombings by militants are common.

Évidemment, on ne peut trouver cela drôle que si l’on écarte le fait qu’il y a eu 700 morts en avril en Irak.

A Brazilian policeman aims his tear gas gun at a protestor
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/04/29/pictures-of-the-week-april-29-2013/5984
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(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Heu, je ne suis pas spécialiste mais ça ne ressemble pas à un tear gas gun mais plutôt à un fusil à pompe ?
#armes

Egypt policeman sentenced to 15 years for torture

An Egyptian court has sentenced a policeman to 15 years imprisonment for manslaughter for torturing an ultraconservative Salafi Muslim to death.

The Alexandria Criminal Court found Osama el-Kounayassi guilty of using torture to extract confessions from the man, suspected of involvement in a suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian church over two years ago. El-Kounayassi had earlier won a retrial after another court found him guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2013/04/16/egypt-policeman-sentenced-to-15-years-for-torture

Rappel : C’est notamment la mort de Khaled Saïd dans des circonstances similaires qui avait été l’élément déclencheur de la révolution https://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=khaled+said&oq=khaled+said&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.23

#violence #Egypt

From the Greek Streets › Irregular updates and articles on the situation in Greece, in English
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org

Athens Indymedia, 98FM and Radio Entasi repressed by the greek government: updates
Friday, April 12, 2013

Access Athens Indymedia: http://gutneffntqonah7l.onion.to

or via Tor: http://gutneffntqonah7l.onion

On April 11th, 2013 the university authorities of the Athens Polytechnic (NTUA) cut off the electricity connection to the servers hosting Athens Indymedia and two radio stations of the antagonist movement – 98FM and Radio Entasi. On the next day, a demonstration was called at the Athens Polytechnic campus in Zografou.

Temporary Athens IMC url: http://indymedia.squat.gr

• Heartbreaking Portraits of Boy Prostitutes in Thailand Paint a Picture of Innocence Lost
http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/03/heartbreaking-portraits-of-boy-prostitutes-in-thailand-paint-a-picture
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#prostitution #Thaïland #photographie

Afghanistan, February 2013: Anti-Taliban Militias
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/afghanistan-february-2013-anti-taliban-militias/100468

Recently, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai ordered U.S. forces to leave Wardak province, partly in response to U.S.-funded militias in the region accused of “torturing, harassing, and murdering” ordinary civilians. The U.S. has been training and funding tribal militias in Afghanistan for years, hoping to emulate the success of a similar strategy in Iraq.

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Farzad Akbari, the 12-year-old son of anti-Taliban militia commander Farhad Akbari, in Afghanistan’s volatile Logar province, host to a large number of armed groups and Taliban crossing over from Pakistan. Farzad’s father is grooming him to take control of the militia should he be killed. “The danger (of the Taliban) is real and it’s important I understand how the world works,” says Farzad. (© Vikram Singh)

Instances of abuse are common and well documented.

Afghanistan: Rein in Abusive Militias and Afghan Local Police
►http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/12/afghanistan-rein-abusive-militias-and-afghan-local-police
#milices #enfants #photographie

Volunteer Squads Chase Illegal Migrants In Russia
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-illegal-migrants-patrols/24900274.html

Moscow authorities have announced the creation of a volunteer squad to help track down illegal migrants, a move human rights advocates say opens the door to abuse and violence.

Hours later, as dusk settled on February 12, a dozen volunteers donning dark-red vests with the inscription “immigration patrol” were dispatched into the streets.

Officials insist that squad members are carefully screened and undergo compulsory training. Aggressive individuals and ultranationalists, they say, are rejected.

But rights advocates are nonetheless sounding the alarm.

“I’m very upset by the rise of xenophobia that I observe in the city and in the country,” says Svetlana Gannushkina, a prominent human rights campaigner specializing in migrants’ rights.

“These raids will be conducted not by law enforcement organs but by ordinary citizens, and I can just imagine what kind of enthusiasts will participate. They will bring nothing but more xenophobia, abuse, and divisions in society.”

#Russie #milice #ultranationalisme #extrême_droite #xénophobie #migration

Iceland, Prosecutor of Bankers, Sees Meager Returns - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/world/europe/iceland-prosecutor-of-bankers-sees-meager-returns.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — As chief of police in a tiny fishing town for 11 years, Olafur Hauksson developed what he thought was a basic understanding of the criminal mind. The typical lawbreaker, he said, recalling his many encounters with small-time criminals, “clearly knows that he crossed the line” and generally sees “the difference between right and wrong.”

Today, the burly, 48-year-old former policeman is struggling with a very different sort of suspect. Reassigned to Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, to lead what has become one of the world’s most sweeping investigation into the bankers whose actions contributed to the global financial crisis in 2008, Mr. Hauksson now faces suspects who “are not aware of when they crossed the line” and “defend their actions every step of the way.”

#banquier #crise #Islande

Romanian policeman on duty in Paris - Europe in motion : https://twitter.com/nicolaskb/status/293327440531566593/photo/1

#Grèce : la police travaille
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/11/21/a-testimony-from-the-hellhole-at-police-headquarters-in-athens

He beat us mostly and the others would accompany him. They cursed, loomed over our heads and punched us or banged our heads against the wall. The level of torture isn’t just the beating, there are also the threats, attempts at humiliation. They are also forms of torture. But there were also physical assaults. I couldn’t take seeing those who were bleeding, were being beaten even more. The most injured was one who’s head had been bashed and had been bleeding for hours, he was in constant pain and calling for a doctor and whenever he spoke, he would get beaten. Whenever he asked for something, they would assault him with slaps and punches. Also, because many hours had passed – we had managed to hold onto a watch and could tell the time – we would try to close our eyes to rest for a couple minutes. We were exhausted, especially those injured. At some point, the young man who was bleeding from his head, closed his eyes and laid down. They wouldn’t let him, they screamed “Get up, you won’t sleep, get up”. Another one beaten in the face, was bleeding from above his nose and from his arm. Others had been beaten in their backs, they had baton scars. During their arrests, they had been thrown to the ground and were beaten while immobilized. And while thrown to the ground, the police tried to remove the bikers’ safety helmets with fury and in danger of choking them since the helmet are tied at the neck. Baton injuries were on all parts of their bodies: back, belly, legs, arms. Because of the direction of the bench, I kept my legs tucked and my head stooped to avoid them photographing my face with mobiles. That specific Delta policeman came over to me and started pulling my hair to lift my head to take my picture. The first time that happened, one of those arrested sitting next to me, protested. He was assaulted because of his protests. The second time I protested when the Delta police came, and I was hit. Because I had my arms in front of my face, keeping my elbows high, I was punched in the neck. Wherever he succeeded in punching me beause he couldn’t get to my face. He would pull my hair and while slapping and punching me.

#ACAB

«I lost my daughters in Gaza last time. Surely the bloodshed has to end» | Izzeldin Abuelaish (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/izzeldin-abuelaish-plea-for-peace-gaza-israel

Izzeldin Abuelaish: Huge courage is needed now to heal historic wounds and cease the killing, abandoning all justifications for war Source: The Guardian

Au sujet des « kamikazes à leur insu »…

Pour mémoire, Robert Fisk racontait ceci en avril 2006. J’ai moi aussi entendu ce genre d’histoires.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-seen-through-a-syrian-lens-unknown-americans-are-provokin

The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. “I swear to you that we have very good information,” my source says, finger stabbing the air in front of him. “One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: ’Come back in a week.’ When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the car but couldn’t get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up.”

Impossible, I think to myself. But then I remember how many times Iraqis in Baghdad have told me similar stories. These reports are believed even if they seem unbelievable. And I know where much of the Syrian information is gleaned: from the tens of thousands of Shia Muslim pilgrims who come to pray at the Sayda Zeinab mosque outside Damascus. These men and women come from the slums of Baghdad, Hillah and Iskandariyah as well as the cities of Najaf and Basra. Sunnis from Fallujah and Ramadi also visit Damascus to see friends and relatives and talk freely of American tactics in Iraq.

“There was another man, trained by the Americans for the police. He too was given a mobile and told to drive to an area where there was a crowd - maybe a protest - and to call them and tell them what was happening. Again, his new mobile was not working. So he went to a landline phone and called the Americans and told them: ’Here I am, in the place you sent me and I can tell you what’s happening here.’ And at that moment there was a big explosion in his car.”

Just who these “Americans” might be, my source did not say. In the anarchic and panic-stricken world of Iraq, there are many US groups - including countless outfits supposedly working for the American military and the new Western-backed Iraqi Interior Ministry - who operate outside any laws or rules. No one can account for the murder of 191 university teachers and professors since the 2003 invasion - nor the fact that more than 50 former Iraqi fighter-bomber pilots who attacked Iran in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have been assassinated in their home towns in Iraq in the past three years.

Une traduction en français avait circulé à l’époque :
http://www.legrandsoir.info/Irak-Des-Americains-inconnus-en-train-de-provoquer-une-guerre.html

« Un jeune Irakien nous a raconté qu’il avait subi de la part des Américains un entraînement de policier à Bagdad et qu’il avait passé 70 pour 100 de son temps à apprendre à conduire et 30 pour 100 à s’entraîner avec des armes. Ils lui ont dit : ‘Reviens dans une semaine.’ Quand il est revenu, ils lui ont refilé un GSM et lui ont dit de rouler dans une zone très peuplée, à proximité d’une mosquée, et de leur téléphoner. Il a attendu dans le véhicule mais n’a pu obtenir le signal mobile adéquat. C’est ainsi qu’il est sorti de son véhicule pour avoir un meilleur signal. Et, à ce moment, son véhicule a explosé. »

Impossible, me dis-je. Mais ensuite, je me rappelle le nombre de fois où des Irakiens, à Bagdad, m’ont raconté des histoires du même genre. On croit ces rapports, même s’ils paraissent invraisemblables. Et je sais où l’on peut glaner une bonne part des informations syriennes : parmi les dizaines de milliers de pèlerins chiites qui vont prier à la mosquée de Sayda Zeinab, à l’extérieur de Damas. Ces hommes et ces femmes viennent des quartiers déshérités de Bagdad, tels Hillah et Iskandariyah, de même que des villes de Najaf et Bassora. Des sunnites de Fallujah et Ramadi vont également visiter Damas pour y voir des amis et des proches et parler librement des tactiques américaines en Irak.

« Il y avait un autre homme encore, entraîné par les Américains pour faire partie de la police. À lui aussi, on a donné un GSM et on lui a dit de téléphoner vers une zone où se massait une foule - peut-être une action de protestation - et de leur raconter ce qui se passait. Là non plus, le GSM ne fonctionnait pas. Il s’est donc servi d’un téléphone par fil et a appelé les Américains pour leur dire : ‘C’est moi, à l’endroit où vous m’avez envoyé, et je puis vous raconter ce qui se passe ici.’ Et, au même moment, il y a eu une énorme explosion à son véhicule. »

Ma source ne m’a pas spécifié qui pouvaient bien être ces « Américains ». Dans le monde frappé par l’anarchie et la panique qu’est l’Irak, il y a de nombreux groupes américains - y compris les innombrables satellites supposés travailler pour l’armée américaine et le nouveau ministère irakien de l’Intérieur soutenu par l’Occident - qui opèrent au mépris de toutes lois et règles. Personne n’a pu être accusé de l’assassinat de 191 professeurs d’université et autres enseignants depuis l’invasion de 2003, ni du fait que plus de 50 anciens pilotes de chasseurs bombardiers qui ont attaqué l’Iran lors de la guerre irano-irakienne de 1980-88 ont été assassinés dans leurs villes de résidence en Irak ces trois dernières années.

Et, pour rappel, le New York Times a filmé récemment une scène invraisemblable (et passée totalement inaperçue) dans laquelle l’Armée syrienne libre manipule un prisonnier pour en fait un kamikaze à son insu :
http://seenthis.net/messages/83465

Father discovers missing boy he searched for 15 years was ‘locked in a room by mother and stepfather and so malnourished he still had baby teeth’ « MasterAdrian’s Weblog
http://masteradrian.com/2012/10/27/father-discovers-missing-boy-he-searched-for-15-years-was-locked-in-a-

Father discovers missing boy he searched for 15 years was ‘locked in a room by mother and stepfather and so malnourished he still had baby teeth’
October 27, 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223361/Im-gonna-son-Father-finds-missing-son-locked-room-years-malnourished-ba
‘I’m gonna have my son back’: Father discovers missing boy he searched for 15 years was ‘locked in a room by mother and stepfather and so malnourished he still had baby teeth’

Tony Wawrzynski of Nevada was informed by Georgia detectives that his long-lost son, now 18, is the alleged victim in a Georgia abuse scandal
Wawrzynski said his son, Mitch, was kidnapped by the boy’s mother 15 years ago
A retired policeman found Mitch in Los Angeles looking malnourished, confused and only around 12 or 13 years old
Mitch told police he was put on a bus to California on his 18th birthday by his stepfather
He said his parents had barely fed him and forced him to stand on his tiptoes, facing a wall, with his hands on his head for eight hours every day
His two stepsisters said they could hear him cry and scream for food

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS

PUBLISHED: 01:16 GMT, 26 October 2012 | UPDATED: 03:29 GMT, 26 October 2012

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Found: Tony Wawrzynski of Reno, Nevada has found his son that was kidnapped by the boy’s mother 15 years ago — and the boy is believed to be a victim in a Georgia child abuse scandal Found: Tony Wawrzynski of Reno, Nevada has found his son that was kidnapped by the boy’s mother 15 years ago — and the boy is believed to be a victim in a Georgia child abuse scandal

A Nevada man’s 15-year search for his missing son has ended after the boy, now 18, was found wandering around Los Angeles following years of alleged abuse by his biological mother and stepfather.

Tony Wawrzynski of Reno, Nevada says he hasn’t seen his son, Mitch, since the boy’s mother kidnapped him when he was just three years old.

Wawrzynski has written dozens of letters and hired a private investigator to try and find the boy, but his mother had changed her name and moved across the country.

As the years passed, Wawrzynski had all but given up hope that he would ever find his son.

Then last week, a detective found one of Wawrzynski’s letters in the Georgia home of Sheila Comer, who is being investigated for allegedly locking her child in a room and starving him for years.

That child’s name is Mitch, and investigators believe that he is the son who Wawrzynski lost so many years ago.

Authorities called Wawrzynski last week and informed him of their discovery and the Nevada father was overjoyed, but also heartbroken over what investigators believe his son has endured.

‘It’s been really hard on me, I mean, me and Mitch when he was a baby, we were really close,’ Wawrzynski told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. ‘We were inseparable. When Mitch was a baby, I was the one that fed him. I was the one that changed his diapers.’

Investigators say 18-year-old Mitch Comer was locked in a room in his home for years and was so malnourished that he still had his baby teeth and looked like a pre-teen
Shackled: Paul and Sheila Comer are led into Georgia courtroom for a hearing. They have been charged with child abuseShackled: Paul and Sheila Comer are led into Georgia courtroom for a hearing. They have been charged with child abuse

Sheila Comer appears in a courtroom for a hearing in Dallas, Ga
Paul and Sheila Comer are led into a courtroom for a hearing in Dallas, Ga.,

The pair were shackled in chains and in stripey jumpsuits when they arrived at court today

‘I thought he was a 12-year-old boy,’ said Georgia Detective Kevin Morgan at the bond hearing of Paul and Sheila Comer, who were arrested last month on charges of cruelty to children and false imprisonment.

Mitch Comer was just 5′ 1″ and weighed only 87 pounds when he was found wandering around downtown Los Angeles.

He was so neglected, his skin was translucent and he told investigators he hadn’t seen the sun in two years. He said he was confined to a bathroom and bedroom and wasn’t fed often, occasionally getting soup or cereal but little of substance, Morgan said.

Wawrzynski said he’s not sure how much his son knows about him, since he was taken from him at such a young age. He is hoping to reunite with him at a Nov. 10 fundraiser for Mitch in Powder Springs, Georgia, he said.

‘I definitely want some time for us to be able to talk and for him to get to know me,’ Wawrzynski said. ‘My hopes are definitely that I’m gonna have my son back.’

Arrest warrants filed in Georgia say the Comers ‘made Mitch kneel on the floor, bend his head and place his forehead against the wall, and place his hands behind his head for long periods of time.’
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In jail: Paul and Sheila Marie Comer allegedly starving and maltreating 18-year-old Mitch, who was found wandering around a bus station more than 2,000 miles from home
Detectives said the 18-year-old boy had practically translucent skin and looked no more than 12 or 13 years old. Pictured, police searching the family homeDetectives said the 18-year-old boy had practically translucent skin and looked no more than 12 or 13 years old. Pictured, police searching the family home

The Comers’ two daughters, who are 11 and 13, told investigators they heard him cry and scream for food often, Morgan said.

Paul and Sheila Comer, who had lived in the house 14 months, admitted to investigators that Mitch was confined to the room.

‘They both conceded that that was his life,’ Morgan said. ‘He lived in that room for years.’

The boy was kept in such seclusion that his two younger sisters in the same house did not know what he looked like, the authorities revealed.

‘The sisters haven’t seen the brother in over two years,’ said Paulding’s Cpl. Ashley Henson. ‘They didn’t even know what color his hair was.’

Paul Comer told investigators he brought Mitch Comer food at 7am noon and 7pm each day and fed him whatever the family was eating.

On September 11, a retired police sergeant working security at a downtown Los Angeles bus station noticed Mitch Comer.

Police decided to investigate further because the teen looked much younger than the 18 years he claimed, Los Angeles police said last month.
Mr Comer and the boy’s mother Sheila Marie were arrested on six charges of child abuse and one charge of false imprisonment on September 12, at their home near Dallas.Parents: Mr Comer and the boy’s mother Sheila Marie were arrested on six charges of child abuse and one charge of false imprisonment on September 12, at their home near Dallas

The teen told authorities he had suffered from years of abuse after being taken out of school in the eighth grade.

He told authorities his stepfather gave him $200 and a list of homeless shelters before he was put on a bus to Los Angeles on his 18th birthday. Paul Comer told investigators Mitch Comer wanted to be an actor.

Mr Comer and the boy’s mother Sheila Marie were arrested on six charges of child abuse and one charge of false imprisonment on September 12, at their home near Dallas.

As an 18-year-old, Mitch was not eligible for foster care, but has been taken in by a local family and is ‘doing well’, detectives said.

He did not know his own address, but his parents were quickly tracked down.

The couple’s two daughters have been in protective custody since their parents were arrested, investigators said.

The Comers have no prior criminal history, but were the subject of a 2009 investigation by local authorities following an abuse allegation when the family lived in Cherokee County.

The case was referred to the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office, but was later closed, and no charges were filed.

Neighbours on the quiet cul-de-sac of two-story brick and vinyl siding homes, about 30 miles outside Atlanta, said the couple kept to themselves and were shocked to discover that the family had a son.
’Abuse’: Mitch told detectives he was forced to stand against the wall at the family home near Dallas, Georgia, for up to eight hours at a time‘Abuse’: Mitch told detectives he was forced to stand against the wall at the family home near Dallas, Georgia, for up to eight hours at a time

The FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have joined the case, Cpl. Henson added.

Mrs Comer’s mother, Diana Powell, of Iowa, said she hadn’t spoken to her daughter in more than a decade and hadn’t seen her grandson since he was a toddler.

Powell told the station that she had feared her daughter and husband abused their children but had no direct evidence.

‘They mistreated him something terrible. I got on her case about it and she disappeared from my life,’ she said crying.

Authorities say that they are just at the ‘tip of the iceberg’ with the case and more charges could be brought against the parents.

Monica Moore, an investigator with the Paulding County District Attorney’s office, described the 18-year-old victim as small, very timid, and extremely polite.

Moore confirmed that a local family had agreed to house the teenager, according to Channel 2.

A spokesman from Paulding County Public Schools could also not confirm whether the children have ever been enrolled in the school system.

Records show the Comers have lived in almost two dozen different homes during the past two decades. Neighbours said the family had lived at their large Dallas home for at least a few years.

Dion Walker and Mea Smith told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that their children had played with the Comers’ daughters over the years but that they had never even seen Mitch.

They said they were surprised to learn the family had a son. ‘Maybe, when the young girls would stare at us, were they trying to say something?’ said Mr Walker. ‘Should we have noticed?’

Mitch was flown back to Dallas on Wednesday to participate in the investigation and legal proceedings.

His stepfather had his own business repairing home appliances, said next-door neighbour John White. They rarely spoke.

Mrs Comer never left the house unless she was with her husband, not even to check the mail, said Mr White. Their two daughters would sometimes come outside and play, but only in the back yard.

Neighbours assumed the girls didn’t go to school either – they never caught the bus that picked up other children in the cul-de-sac every morning.

Neighbors said they had no clue the Comers had a son until a detective came knocking at their doors asking questions last week.

‘I had no idea, no clue. There were no signs of a son at all,’ said Mr Walker, who has lived next to the Comers for two years. ‘The few occasions we would see them go to the van, it was always the parents and the two girls.’

Walker said police swarmed the Comers’ home last week, arresting the parents and taking both girls into protective custody.

Walker said the Comer family did not take part in neighbourhood association meetings and their girls never attended the neighbourhood Halloween block parties.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223361/Im-gonna-son-Father-finds-missing-son-locked-room-years-malnourished-ba

Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012) - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrEECcMVCN4

#film #documentaire #wikileaks

Portraits of Australian criminals from the 1920s | La boite verte
http://www.laboiteverte.fr/portraits-of-australian-criminals-from-the-1920s

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These portraits of Australian criminals came from the archives of the Sydney police.
They were taken during the 1920s by a policeman/photographer while they where in custody in the cells of the police station.

via @tanxxx

The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Marikana (Daily Maverick)
►http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-08-30-the-murder-fields-of-marikana-the-cold-murder-fields-of-

It is becoming clear to this reporter that heavily armed police hunted down and killed the miners in cold blood. A minority were killed in the filmed event where police claim they acted in self-defence. The rest was murder on a massive scale. (...) Source: Daily Maverick

The murder fields of Marikana
►http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-08-30-the-murder-fields-of-marikana-the-cold-murder-fields-of-

It is becoming clear to this reporter that heavily armed police hunted down and killed the miners in cold blood. A minority were killed in the filmed event where police claim they acted in self-defence. The rest was murder on a massive scale.

(...) “Tsepo said many people had been killed at the small koppie and it had never been covered (by the media). He agreed to take us to the small koppie, because that is where many, many people died,” Mmope said.

After the shooting began, Tsepo said, he was among many who ran towards the small koppie. As the police chased them, someone among them said, “Let us lie down, comrades, they will not shoot us then.”

(...) It took several days for police to release the number of those killed. The number 34 surprised most of us. With only about a dozen bodies recorded by the media, where exactly had the remaining miners been killed, and how did they die?

Most journalists and others did not interrogate this properly. The violence of the deaths we could see, again and again, was enough to contend with. The police certainly did not mention what happened outside of the view of the cameras.

The toll of 112 mineworkers (34 dead and 78 wounded) at Marikana is one of those few bitter moments in our bloody history that has been captured by the unblinking eye of the lens. Several lenses, in fact, and from various viewpoints.

This has allowed the actions and reactions of both the strikers and the police to be scrutinised in ways that undocumented tragedies can never be. Therefore, while the motives and rationale of both parties will never be completely clear, their deeds are quite apparent.  

Thus developed a dominant narrative within the public discourse. The facts have been fed by the police, various state entities and by the media that the strikers provoked their own deaths by charging and shooting at the forces of law and order. Indeed, the various images and footage can be read to support this claim.

The contrary view is that the striking miners were trying to escape police rubber bullets and tear gas when they ran at the heavily armed police task team (our version of SWAT). The result was the horrific images of a dozen or so men gunned down in a fusillade of automatic fire.

http://dailymaverick.co.za/photo/resize/2012-08-30-cfakepathgreg-marikana-murders-02-465-609/465/609#.jpg

It is possible to interpret what happened in the filmed events as an over-reaction by the police to a threat. What happened afterwards, 400 metres away at Small Koppie, is quite different. That police armoured vehicles drove over prostrate miners cannot be described as self-defence or as any kind of public order policing.

#afrique_du_sud #police #répression #massacre #cdp

Exceptionnellement, tu as le droit de lire la revue de la presse libanaise de L’Orient-Le Jour :
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C0+La+Une/article/772771/Affaire+Samaha+%3A+coup+dur+pour+Damas%2C+champ+de+mines+pour+le+8+Ma

Si pour tous les éditorialistes libanais l’arrestation jeudi matin de l’ancien ministre libanais et proche de Bachar el-Assad, Michel Samaha, est un événement majeur, elle ne l’est pas nécessairement pour les mêmes raisons.

Where Do The Children Play?
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/where-do-children-play

General Ashraf Rifi, director of the Internal Security Forces (ISF), has issued orders to combat the trend of child beggars and street vendors, upon the instructions of Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Marwan Charbel.

Rifi ordered police precincts to be strict, to arrest the children and place them in suitable social institutions. But the problem lies in the difficulty of turning theory into practical action.

A security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the main obstacle hindering the police’s task is seeing the process through to completion.

“Security forces began arresting the beggars, but found nowhere to put them,” he said. “There is no place that can accommodate even a small number, let alone all of them.”