[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A court in Sudan on Sunday sentenced a university student to death after convicting him of killing a policeman during protests in the capital last year, a defence lawyer said.
Asim Omer, who was studying at Khartoum University, was arrested in December 2016 and charged with killing the policeman after hundreds of students clashed with security forces at the campus on the banks of the Blue Nile in April of that year.
Last month, the court found Omer guilty, and on Sunday sentenced him to be hanged.
“The judge sentenced Asim Omer to be hanged to death after finding him guilty of killing a policeman,” defence lawyer Mohamed Arabi told AFP, adding that he would appeal.
After sentencing, during which AFP was unable to gain access to the courtroom, police fired tear gas to disperse a protest by students gathered outside the court.
The protests relocated to areas in and around Khartoum University, with those demonstrations also dispersed by the same means.
The opposition Popular Congress Party, of which Omer is a member, rejected the court’s ruling.
“The sentencing of Asim Omer is illegal because the judge didn’t have full evidence to convict him,” the party said in a statement.
“We will continue our fight in the higher court and all alternatives are open to us to save his life.”
Students at Khartoum University demonstrated several times last year against an alleged plan to sell off buildings belonging to the institution.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The September 17 arrest of Samiun Rahman ‐ a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin ‐ in east Delhi came a day before the government in New Delhi told the Supreme Court that the 40,000 Rohingya refugees in its territory constitute a national security threat.
The government had submitted its plea in a sealed envelope to the court, so it is not definite whether Rahman’s case is included as evidence, according to a report by The Wire. Media reports have described him as "al-Qaeda’s key recruiter," although some other reports have been more circumspect, naming him only as a "suspected al-Qaeda Death Eater."
Twenty-eight-year-old Rahman, whose family is still in London, had previously been incarcerated
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To paraphrase and old Israeli saying "Not every Muslim is a terrorist - only every other one.".
[Al Jazeera] Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in central Berlin after exit polls showed that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party had become Germany's third-largest political force.
Shouting slogans such as "All Berlin hates the AfD!" and ''Nazi pigs!", the demonstrators gathered outside a building in Germany's capital where the anti-immigrant party's leaders were celebrating winning an estimated 13.1 percent of the votes in Sunday's federal poll.
Several protesters threw bottles as police kept them away from the building.
The AfD, which will be entering parliament for the first time, was founded just four years ago as an anti-euro force. Its manifesto included a pledge to ban all mosques and criminalise people wearing the veil.
The election result produced shockwaves, both internationally and domestically. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said Nazis are back in the German parliament.
"Seventy years after the end of the war, neo-Nazis are again sitting in the Bundestag," Asselborn told DPA news agency, referring to Germany's lower house of parliament.
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Of course, what can be more democratic then responding to results of an election with a violent protests. And, of course, anybody who doesn't want Muslim "refugees" is a neo-Nazi.
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Huh. People who aren't Soros-stooges win some elections, and Soros stooges riot. It's almost like there's a small group of like-minded people funding the violence.
Anyone know if Sessions has finished his nap, so he can look into the US army of this?
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It's almost like there's a small group of like hive-minded people funding the violence.
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[DAWN] Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Maleeha Lodhi said that India is the mother of terrorism in South Asia, reported the state-run radio service on Sunday.
In her response to the allegations of terrorism levelled against Pakistain by India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in her address at the UN General Assembly session in New York, Lodhi said India is using terrorism as a state policy.
Exercising the right of reply to an earlier speech, Lodhi accused Swaraj of "indulging in an orgy of slander against Pakistain."
On Saturday, Sushma Swaraj in her address accused Islamabad of terrorism. In her diatribe, she had said, "Pakistain is recognised only as the pre-eminent export factory for terror."
"Her comments towards my country betray the hostility that the Indian leadership has towards Pakistain ‐the hostility we have endured for 70 years," Ambassador Lodhi told the 72nd UNGA.
"Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav has confessed of committing terrorism in Pakistain," Lodhi said.
"Repeating falsehoods year after year does not and cannot conceal or alter the truth. But in her vitriol she deliberately ignored the core issue of Jammu and Kashmire."
Lodhi noted Jammu and Kashmire was not a part of India and was recognised by the United Nations and the international community as ’disputed" territory’. "I invite all of you, and the Indian FM, to look at the UN maps," she said.
The Pak diplomat said that India's military occupation of the State was illegal as the UN Security Council had, in over a dozen resolutions, decided that the dispute must be resolved by enabling the people of Jammu and Kashmire to determine their own destiny through a UN-supervised plebiscite.
India has been levelling allegations against Pakistain to divert international attention from the brutalities of Indian forces in held Kashmire, she said. The crimes against humanity in held Kashmire should be investigated.
She also urged the international community to stop India from ceasefire violations on the Line of Control. Pakistain wants a resolution of all outstanding issues through talks, she said, adding that India will have to give up the policy of terrorism.
Lodhi recalled that India's brutal occupation of Kashmire has killed over 100,000 innocent Kashmiris. Although India had launched a campaign of brutality inside Kashmire ‐ including the shooting and blinding of innocent Kashmiri children with pellet guns ‐ and yet had failed to subdue these Kashmiri children, women and youth who came out on the streets almost daily to demand that India get out of occupied Kashmire.
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Lodhi brnadished a photo of an alleged Kashmiri victim of Indian Police pellet guns. Problem is, that is an alleged Palestinian.
To be fair to Mrs Lodhi, Mother India has many children, including Pakistani terrorists
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[Dhaka Tribune] The man sat slumped in a chair inside the thatched hut, the shadows lengthening over his face in the gathering dusk. Tall and gaunt, he was in his mid-twenties but sounded younger. Wearing a traditional blue-and-white check lungi and a cotton shirt, he did not really look like a rebel.
His youthful voice hardened, however, as he reeled off the names of the villages which had been burnt down by the Myanmar army in his home state of Rakhine since August 25, when his organization attacked border posts and an army base, an operation in which he took part with "200 men from our area."
"We hit their soldiers, they hit our women and kiddies," he said. "The Burmese military are cowards."
An intermediary introduced him as Abdus Shakoor, a commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or ARSA in the Maungdaw district in northern Rakhine. We met him near a barbed wire fence separating Bangladesh and Myanmar after a long trek through swaying rice fields and rolling hills, a deceptively pristine setting for a desperate tale of loss, recklessness and forlorn hope.
After a succession of guides took turns to lead us through a maze of dirt tracks, we came upon a cluster of huts. Children played in a clearing nearby. Chickens scrabbled in the dirt. There were no guns in sight. It was oddly appropriate for the insurgency that Shakoor was describing ‐ almost entirely rural, a peasant war fought in the Rakhine countryside.
The meeting with the ARSA commander was set up after a week of enquiries, dead-ends, and several false starts. ARSA fighters are under severe pressure from the Myanmar army, which has reacted to the August 25 attacks with a scorched-earth campaign that the UN and international human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups have denounced as ethnic cleansing.
Yangon has denied that the security forces have targeted civilians, claiming that the army is trying to hunt down terrorists.
It is an accusation to which Shakoor is extremely sensitive. "We are not terrorists," he said, using the English word, which he pronounced as ’tetarist.’ "We stood up for our haqq, our rights. There’s nothing else that we want, nothing!"
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a group previously known as Harakah al-Yaqin, or "Faith Movement," attacked border guard posts, cop shoppes, and army bases on August 25, killing at least 10 coppers and an army soldier.
Shakoor described why and how his group planned and carried out the attack.
"Our zimmadars or elders said we must fight back because the Myanmar government was starving us, killing us slowly. They slaughter our people for no reason, they dishonour our women. They want to uproot us from the land that was handed down from our forefathers.
"To save our people, to save our mothers and sisters, to take back our rights, we took up sticks, and axes and knives and rose up against the oppressors."
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My best guess is that these are the same systems the Russian replaced in the Vladisvostok region a few months ago with their latest S-400 SAM system
TEHRAN: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard has displayed the country’s sophisticated Russian-made S-300 air defense system in central Tehran.
This is the first time that the S-300 air defense system has been displayed in public.
The public show in Tehran’s Baharestan square near the Parliament building square exhibited different missile systems, including ballistic missiles, solid-fuel surface-to-surface Sejjil missiles and the liquid-fuel Ghadr.
The IRGC prepared the show for the annual Defense Week, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
US President Donald Trump signed in August a bill imposing mandatory penalties on those involved in Iran’s controversial ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them.
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I wonder which version of the software the Persians received. And who else might have a copy?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The pro-government "Homeland Shield Forces" (Dara’ al-Watan) made their way from southern Syria to the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate, Saturday, in order to aid in the upcoming offensive along the Idlib-Hama Highway.
According to a military report, the Homeland Shield Forces were sent to the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate after the al-Qaeda linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham murderous Moslems violated the ceasefire in the de-escalation zones and launched an offensive near the town of Ma’an earlier this week.
Video footage of the Homeland Shield Forces arriving in northern Hama was released by the al-Quneitra Hawks Brigade on Sunday
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
