At least 400 civilians killed in the revolt of the Syria: Group - Reuters

AMMAN. Tue April 26, 2011 1 pm EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - the Syrian security forces shot dead at least 400 civilians in their campaign to crush the pro-democracy protests of long months, Sawasiah Syrian human rights organization said on Tuesday.

The group, founded by Mohannad al-Hassani imprisoned human rights lawyer, said that the United Nations Security Council should convene to start proceedings against the Syrian in the international criminal court officials and "reigns in security apparatus".

"This savage behavior, which aims to maintain the clique of decision power to the detriment of a growing number of life of civilians, calls for immediate international action beyond the convictions," Sawasiah said in a statement sent to Reuters.

"The murderers in the Syrian regime must be held accountable." The rivers of the blood by this oppressive regime over the past four decades are enough, said the statement.

Board of Directors of Sawasiah includes philosophy Syrian Professor Sadiq Jalal al-Azem, the book "Self-criticism after the defeat" helped to prepare the ground for a revival in Arab political thought after the victory of Israel in the 1967 war in the Middle East.

Separately, the Syrian human rights observatory, said security police arrested rights activist Qassem al-Ghazzawi Tuesday in his hometown of Deir al - Zor in the Syria is poor after protests intensified in the region last week.

The Observatory also said Mahmoud Issa, an activist and a former political prisoner arrested last week in the city of Homs, submitted to a military court Tuesday on charges of "owning a Thuraya satellite phone and edge computing."

(Reported by Khaled Yacoub Oweis;) (Editing by Louise Ireland)

View the original article here

Israeli is killed in West Bank - New York Times

text is null
Parameter name: text

View the original article here

1 Israeli killed, 2 wounded in West Bank shooting

Palestinians shot and killed one Israeli and two others wounded Sunday beginning near tomb of Joseph, a Jewish holy site in the Palestinian city of Nablus, Israeli military and rescue services said.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately obvious. An elderly man of about 30 years reaches an Israeli base outside Nablus before dying of his injuries, the army and rescue services said.

Two others, about 20 and 17, reached a Jewish settlement nearby with gunshot wounds and was taken to the hospital.

Jewish worshippers often enter Nablus with a military escort located within an area to pray on the small building traditionally identified as the tomb of the biblical Patriarch, held the Palestinian. These visits are coordinated with the Palestinian security forces. Visit the Israelis Friday, however, seems to have not been coordinated with each side.

Israel Army Radio reported that the faithful identified as Palestinian police snipers.

Jibril al-Bakri, the Palestinian Governor of Nablus, said the Palestinian Authority "studied the incident internally."

A senior Palestinian official said police Palestinians seem to have been involved in the shooting. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The Palestinian Authority governs parts of the West Bank under the control of overall security to Israel.

Nablus moved from Israeli to Palestinian control in the 1990s in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but Israel retained control on the building of the Tomb. In 2000, after deadly fighting autour Tomb, Israel military torn off and handed over control to the Palestinians. Later, a mob ransacked and torched the building.

The tomb was restored later. Recent years, through the improvement of the conditions of security in the West Bank and reinforced cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, Jewish worshippers have travelled to the grave in organized convoys.

Accessibility links

View the original article here

Dr. Qué. admits having killed her children

A cardiologist of Quebec charged with two counts of murder in the first degree admitted that he stabbed her two children in 2009, but it is not an act of premeditated claims.

Guy Turcotte defence team made the admission Monday, in the double murder trial in Saint-Jér?me cardiologist.

In a statement filed by his defence lawyer Pierre Poupart, Turcotte admits that he committed an unlawful act and that it caused the death of her two children.

Olivier (5) and Anne-Sophie (3) was stabbed to death by their father, he admits. (CBC)

But Turcotte of plans to fight against the claim that the murders were premeditated.

Poupart told jurors they will determine the State of mind Turcotte at the time of the crimes, and if he knew what he did.

Children Turcotte has - of five years and three years Anne-Sophie - Olivier were found stabbed to death on 21 February 2009, inside a House of their father leased in the Laurentians.

Turcotte was also found in the House, under a bed, after he ingested washer.

He was charged with and found fit to stand trial in an investigation preliminary hearing last year.

Turcotte sobbed in court as counsel for the Attorney General Claudia Carbonneau describes the details of the double murder.

Crime scene technician gave jurors a view inside the House: two knives, two blood-stained, a container of windshield washer near vacuum in a bathroom and vomits on the floor.

It had mother Turcotte, Margaret Fournier testified Monday on the last telephone conversation with his son until the children were killed.

Turcotte, cardiologist, faces two counts of first degree murder. (Canadian Press)

Turcotte deplored his marriage missed to Isabelle Gaston, whom he had separated a month earlier.

Fournier said his son was depressed and told him that Gaston was cheating on him.

"There lasts for weeks," Fournier cited his son saying. She said that he was told "it was in my home in my bed."

His mother advised him to look forward, but his son does not seem to hear. But then he said something that struck Fournier as characters.

"I love you, I tell dad I love it," Fournier said, remembering his son repeating these words repeated during the discussion of one hour.

"When I heard this speech, I was afraid that he would take his own life," she said.

He had been drinking fearful, Fournier was driving to his son on the night, but her husband said to wait.

Fournier has arrived the next day to find no grandchildren in view, locked doors and shades drawn to the single-family in a rural district in Piedmont.

"Maybe my husband always had hope [things were OK], but I had no hope at all the", she testified.

Fournier cooling 911 call pleaded with police rushing to the rented house was played in court late Monday, causing some tears more Turcotte.

If found guilty, he could face life imprisonment.

About 30 witnesses are expected to testify at the trial, including the police, ambulance technicians and family.

Gaston, a doctor herself, should also take the position.

The trial is expected to last between six and eight weeks.

Police band access of blocks of a house in Piedmont, Que., where the bodies of two young children were found on February 21, 2009. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) Records of the Canadian Press return to the accessibility links

View the original article here

Father of British Colombia who killed children could not obtain leaves

Leaves with escort for Allan Schoenborn, the father who killed his three children at their home in trailers of Merritt, b.c., will be reconsidered by the Board of review of the Colombia of British Columbia, Attorney General Barry Penner said.

Last week, the provincial court held that Schoenborn could be granted passes to leave the psychiatric hospital of Port Coquitlam for outings in the community.

But Penner said Wednesday that the new information that Schoenborn woman lives in Coquitlam prompted the new review, which should take place within 14 days.

The Hospital Director said Wednesday earlier that the orginal decision should not have been taken to mean that the leaves with escort would be automatically granted to Schoenborn, especially in the light of the news of the proximity of his wife in the installation.

Allan Schoenborn and Darcie Clarke's three children, 10-year-old Kaitlynne, age of eight the Max cord and five years, were found killed in their Merritt, b.c., trailer to home. CBC "this is new information, and this is the kind of information, where our deliberations and our decision-making process could change because of this," Dr. Johann Brink of Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Port Coquitlam.

"Of course we do not want to put everyone in danger." We certainly would deliberately or negligent. ?

Schoenborn was declared not responsible criminally for killing his three children, previously Merritt saying: he takes their lives to prevent them from be assaulted.

Ex-wife of Schoenborn, Darcie Clarke, found dead in his house on April 6, 2008 children. Ten years Kaitlynne was in his bedroom, his throat crevée, while Max of eight and five years cord were lying on the sofa, stifled.

Last year, Schoenborn asked his first examination hearing completely fulfill the hospital, but was refused on the grounds that he was still a threat to society.

To a review board hearing last week, Schoenborn said this time he wants to keep taking his medication and stay alive in the hospital.

"I'm looking for the answers to what has passed, and I don't want to gum works," he said.

He said that he wanted to leave escorted to make things simple, such as seeking a job or a cup of coffee.

Counsel for the Crown Lyle Hillaby taken supported supervised visits but said the Commission to review that Schoenborn "is not to trust" because of his history with the violence and anger.

Scott Hicks, the Schoenborn lawyer, said his client had committed no act of violence over the past year and that the disorder is in remission, so it was "realistic" to give the community of visits to the discretion of the edge.

Accessibility links

View the original article here

Four killed in Syria cut the city - New York Times

The army had sealed off the city that hundreds of demonstrators gathered, undaunted by use of the Government of the force for more than three weeks of unrest, witnesses said. Television reported State that nine soldiers were killed in an ambush near the town.

Because telephone lines, electricity and Internet access were apparently cut to most of the regions of Banias details were incomplete. Soldiers and tanks from the army surrounded the city, prevent people from entering to the.

But a witness, reached by telephone, said hundreds of protesters had gathered near the al-Rahman Mosque, when forces of security with men in open civilian clothing fire armed. The names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque.

Dozens of people were injured, the witness said, but most of them have asked to be treated at a small clinic instead of the main hospital of the city, which was under the control of the security forces.

As most people who were interviewed, the witness requested anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Government. Several human rights activists, also citing witnesses, reported the shootings Sunday, Banias is 185 kilometres northwest of Damascus, the capital.

"There are demonstrations throughout the city, and people are chanting against the regime, said Haitham al-Maleh, 80, a lawyer and activist for the rights of the man who has spent years as a political prisoner in Syria."

The accounts could not be confirmed independently. The Government imposed severe restrictions on the coverage of news and many journalists, including Associated Press, were ordered to leave the country.

Demonstrations broke out in Syria, more than three weeks ago and have experienced steady growth, with tens of thousands of people calling for major reforms in a Government authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad.

More than 170 people were killed, human rights groups function.

The Government accuses the bands armed violence and pledged to crush any further unrest. Sunday, rogue reported State television were behind the killing of nine soldiers in an ambush near Banias.

The television report said armed men hiding among the trees along a road fired at the soldiers, and it broadcasts images of an ambulance and other civilian vehicles coming under fire along the road.

Sunday, Assad said that the country was "" to go forward on the road to comprehensive reforms", reported the State News Agency, Sana." In recent weeks, Mr. Assad responded to the protesters with force and limited concessions which have failed to appease the.

View the original article here

the 4 demonstrators killed in Syria: witnesses

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad posters decorate a street in Damascus. The leader has yet to lift the old state of several decades of emergency. Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty

A witness said of the Syrian security forces killed four demonstrators and wounded dozens in a coastal city.

The witness stated that the names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque Sunday in the city of port of Banias. He said most of the shooting took place in the neighbourhood of Ras al-Nabeh. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Government.

Details were incomplete, because the telephone lines, internet access and electricity were apparently slaughtered most of the parts of the city. Soldiers and tanks from the army surrounded the city, prevent people from entering to the.

But a witness, reached by telephone, said hundreds of demonstrators were gathered near the al-Rahman Mosque when security forces and armed men in civilian clothes open fire on them. The names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque.

He said dozens of people were injured, but most of them asked to be treated at a small clinic instead of to the main hospital, which, as under the control of safety feared forces.

Several other human rights activists, also citing witnesses, reported shooting at Banias Sunday.

"There are demonstrations throughout the city and people are chanting against the regime, said Haitham al-Maleh, 80 years and long-time rights activist lawyer who spent years as a prisoner politics Syria."

Also Sunday, State television reported what the thugs ambushed and killed nine police officers near Banias, 300 kilometres northwest of Damascus.

The report said armed men hiding among the trees along a road turned to the police, and it broadcasts images of ambulance and other civilian vehicles coming under fire on the same road.

Independent reports disappeared from Syria, that the Government has imposed severe restrictions on the coverage of news and many journalists were ordered to leave the country.

Demonstrations broke out in Syria, more than three weeks ago and have experienced steady growth each week, with tens of thousands of people are calling for substantial reforms in the regime authoritarian President Bashar Assad.

More than 170 people were killed, human rights groups function.

Assad has made a statement Sunday the country "will forward on the road to comprehensive reforms," said the State SANA news agency.

A key of demonstrators demand is an end to a decades-old emergency law which gives the regime arrested persons free hands-free. But al-Assad has stopped far demands of the demonstrators.

Accessibility links

View the original article here