Imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini is finally receiving hospital treatment for internal injuries suffered at the hands of his captors in Iranian prisons.
Naghmeh Abedini told Faith Radio her husband is finally being given decent meals and pain medication to deal with this wounds. He had been transferred to a hospital from Rajai Shahr prison, called Iran’s deadliest prison.
However, Saeed reportedly still needs to undergo surgery.
Iran backed off and called a “mistake” their recent actions where they shackled Abedini and denied him any medical treatment. The reversal came after a worldwide outcry of abuse.
His lawyers with the American Center for Law and Justice say the Iranian guards are still blocking visitors.
Venezuelan leaders have begun to blatantly ignore human rights in squelching protests and opposition to their rule.
President Nicolas Maduro has been warning opposition leaders for weeks that they will be jailed and tortured like opposition hardliner Leopoldo Lopez if they do not stop opposing his plans for the country.
Thursday the government arrested two opposition members of the legislature and had already sentenced one of them to 10 months in jail. Another congresswoman is jailed and the government is working to strip away her congressional immunity from prosecution because of her opposition to Maduro.
The mayor of San Diego, Enzo Scarano, was removed from his position by the Supreme Court which is loaded with Maduro associates. He was jailed for not following a court order to remove protester barricades from the city.
Maduro said Thursday he will “neutralize” the “country’s enemies.”
Two Washington, DC area teenagers are in jail after being arrested on charges related to torturing an autistic boy.
Lauren Bush, 17 and a 15-year-old girl recorded their assaults against the 16-year-old victim. In addition to forcing him to perform various personal indignities, they stabbed him multiple times and dragged him around by his hair.
They also forced the victim to walk across a partially frozen pond where he fell through the ice multiple times. The suspects refused to help the boy out of the frigid water and laughed as he struggled to get back onto the ice surface.
Bush is being charged as an adult. Both defendants are facing charges of 1st degree assault, 2nd degree assault, production of child pornography and false imprisonment.
Bush and her co-conspirator have not told police why they committed the acts against the boy.
The United Nations report on the atrocities committed by the North Korean government is slowly being completely released to the public and the latest information shows horrific drawings of torture.
A man who survived two years inside a prison camp gave the sketches to the UN. The drawings show a glimpse into the camp where cameras are forbidden by the North Korean government.
“This was the first thing that I saw: there it said that ‘if you run, you die,'” Kim Kwang-Il told the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights.
“We are supposed to think there’s an imaginary motorcycle and we are supposed to be in this position as if we are riding the motorcycle. And for this, we pose as if we are airplanes ourselves. We are flying. And if we stand like this there’s no way that you can hold that position for a long time. You are bound to fall forward. Everybody in the detention center goes through this kind of torture,” said Kwang-Il, who was able to escape to South Korea.
Kwang-Il was sentenced to 29 months in a labor camp for smuggling pine nuts into the country.
Witnesses say the prisoners are kept starving to the point they would eat rats or snakes that they would catch in their cells or outside their buildings.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is pressing for the International Criminal Court to put North Korean leaders on trial.
The charity “Save The Children” is reporting cases of horrific abuse of children by the Syrian government as the civil war in the nation continues to rage.
The group has called on the United Nations to step in and increase its presence on the ground in hopes it would quell the violence. Continue reading →
