Free speech, human rights,Freedom, equality and accountability. We all human are same.Balochistan act for justice on a wide range of issues.Event and News related to Balochistan and world. Baloch In Balochistan have been disappeared and hanged and or murdered by Pakistan's military and securities agencies and Iran regime. Pakistan rarely allows journalists or human rights organizations to travel freely in Balochistan and coverage in the world press is inadequate.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Abdul Haq Mengal was abducted on 19th oct 2012 from Wadh area of Balochistan when he was coming from mosque on Friday. The family member said His only crime is that, he was servant at Mir Javed Mengal house, and used to look after domestic matters.they have accused the head of Pakistan army’s proxy death squad (Shafiq Mengal) and his cronies for the abduction of Mr Mengal. The family members once again appeals to all Baloch Nation and International Human Right Organization to play thier crucial role for release of Abdul Haq Mengal.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
NEWS : Rest in Peace Adnan Baloch.
Rest in Peace Adnan Baloch.
In his condolatory statement on demise of former Karachi Zone president, the central spokesperson of BSO-Azad, has said that Adnan Baloch was a very active member of the organization. Due to his skills and strong resolution he participated in the organizational activities till his last days, and he continued to play the role of a revolutionary.
He further said that BSO-Azad pays rich tribute to Adnan Baloch and the organization vows to continue Adnan’s struggle.
Adnan Baloch was ex-President of Karachi Zone. In past he also held other zonal offices, and had a huge contribution in organizing BSO-Azad in Karachi.
The statement further read, “Adnan Baloch’s life was a symbol of bravery and revolutionary struggle. He had donated his whole life for the struggle of Balochistan’s independence. In spite of bad health he was performing his organizational duties staunchly and persistently. He continuously shared his consciousness and awareness with the general public. He is a role model for the comrades of the struggle.”
“With Adnan’s death, we have lost a sincere and staunch activist. His death is a very huge damage to the organization and the struggle. BSO-Azad will continue to remember Adnan Baloch as a resolute and determined comrade,” the spokesperson further said in his statement.
In his condolatory statement on demise of former Karachi Zone president, the central spokesperson of BSO-Azad, has said that Adnan Baloch was a very active member of the organization. Due to his skills and strong resolution he participated in the organizational activities till his last days, and he continued to play the role of a revolutionary.
He further said that BSO-Azad pays rich tribute to Adnan Baloch and the organization vows to continue Adnan’s struggle.
Adnan Baloch was ex-President of Karachi Zone. In past he also held other zonal offices, and had a huge contribution in organizing BSO-Azad in Karachi.
The statement further read, “Adnan Baloch’s life was a symbol of bravery and revolutionary struggle. He had donated his whole life for the struggle of Balochistan’s independence. In spite of bad health he was performing his organizational duties staunchly and persistently. He continuously shared his consciousness and awareness with the general public. He is a role model for the comrades of the struggle.”
“With Adnan’s death, we have lost a sincere and staunch activist. His death is a very huge damage to the organization and the struggle. BSO-Azad will continue to remember Adnan Baloch as a resolute and determined comrade,” the spokesperson further said in his statement.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Iran executes three Baluch political prisoners
Iran executes three Baluch political prisoners | |
Zahidan :The Iranian fundamentalist regime has executed three Baluch political prisoners on Saturday morning in Zahedan, the capital of Iranian occupied Balochistan.According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Iranian Regime executed the three youth in a blind revenge against human rights laws and humanity. The victims have been named as 25 years old Abdol Basit Rygi, Abdol Jalil Kahrazehi and Yahya Chakarzahi. They were charged with Moharebeh (enmity against God) and were executed in Zahedan prison, early Saturday morning. The report further said that two activists were transferred to solitary confinement in the Intelligence Ministry two days before their execution. They were subjected to brutal torture and coerced to a televised confession. The third Baluch political prisoner Abul Basit, a social activist and a promoter of ‘Human Rights & Democracy’, was reportedly very active on internet. He used to advocate justice, Human rights and democracy in Baluchistan. He was arrested three years ago and kept in solidarity confinement for eleven months. He was physically and mentally tortured. They also kept him in appalling conditions in prison. Intelligence interrogators subjected Mr Rigi to brutal and inhuman torture and forced him to give televised confessions against himself. A death sentence by a kangaroo court was passed against all three Baloch political prisoners after their forced confession. Diaspora communities say that innocent political activist from Kurdish, Baluch and Al-Ahwazi community are executed in different prisons by Iran on regular basis but due to country’s strict grip on news agencies and media such news hardly reach to the wider world or find any space in international media. | |
Balochistan: Three Baloch including a 17 years student whisked away
Balochistan: Three Baloch including a 17 years student whisked away | |
Quetta :Pakistani security forces have abducted two Baloch youth from Turbat and Hub towns of Balochistan on Monday. An elderly man was abducted from Wadh area of Balochistan on Friday.Sources reported that on Monday at about 11:30 AM Bahar Khan Marri s/o Jamal Khan Marri whose eldest brother Mazar Khan Marri was arrested last year was abducted near Sakran police station in the industrial town of Hub, Balochistan. He is 17 years old and had gone to attend the court hearing of his brother Mazar Khan in Lasbela. While on his way back home he was forced down from his motor bike by persons unknown in a 2 D car and twin cabin vehicle and taken away. The relatives have visited the police stations but they express ignorance about the incident. The relatives feel that Pakistani security agencies are involved. In a press release the relatives of Mr Marri have said that he is a first year student and he has no affiliations with any armed group or political parties. He has only been arrested for being a Marri Baloch. The family has appealed to the international human rights organisations and media to pressurise Pakistan to release the 17 year old student unharmed and without any delay. Meanwhile another Baloch youth Mr. Maqbool s/o Naimat Ullah, a resident of Gomazi, has been abducted by the Pakistani secret agencies when he was on his way to Gomazi from Turbat. He was offloaded from a passenger vehicle; witnesses and family members said he has been whisked away by Pakistani security agencies. Separately, an elderly man named Abdul Haq Mengal was abducted from Wadh area of Balochistan on Friday. The family members have accused the head of Pakistan army’s proxy death squad Shafiq Mengal and his cronies for the abduction of Mr Mengal. | |
Monday, October 22, 2012
Morocco: Restore AFP Reporter’s Accreditation
New Move Against International Media Two Years After Al Jazeera Banned
- Journalist Omar Brouksy © 2012 Omar Brouksy
A country that respects freedom of expression should not be yanking press cards for mentioning the monarchy in the ‘wrong’ context or shutting down news bureaus because it dislikes their coverage.
(Rabat) – Moroccan authorities should restore the accreditation of Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist Omar Brouksy and stop retaliating against foreign media for what they report. On October 4, 2012, authorities withdrew Brouksy’s accreditation, citing an article published that day about an election contest in which Brouksy noted that the founder of one political party was close to the royal palace.
October 29 will mark two years since authorities shut down the Morocco bureau of Al Jazeera television in response to its coverage of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. In a country where the two main languages are Arabic and French, Al Jazeera and the AFP are closely followed.
“A country that respects freedom of expression should not be yanking press cards for mentioning the monarchy in the ‘wrong’ context or shutting down news bureaus because it dislikes their coverage,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
The AFP story by Brouksy concerned special elections for three parliamentary seats in districts where results had been invalidated in the November 2011 general elections. His article described the contest in Tangiers as primarily between the Islamist Party of Justice and Development, which won a plurality in the general elections, and “candidates close to the royal palace running under the banner of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity, founded in 2008 by Fouad Ali el-Himma, who is close to King Mohammed VI.” The article also referred to “a power struggle between the government and the royal palace.”
Communications Minister Moustapha Khalfi, the government spokesman, said in an October 4 statement that the government was rescinding Brouksy’s accreditation because of an “anti-professional dispatch” that contained “statements implicating the institution of the monarchy in this election contest,” thereby “undermining” the monarchy’s “neutrality and role as referee above all electoral competition between political formations.”
The next day, Khalfi told the AFP that Brouksy had disregarded the regulations governing journalists, in particular an article requiring that they “respect national sovereignty, professional rules, and the laws in effect.”
The AFP stood by Brouksy’s article and justified the passage in question as providing context for the election.
“Even if the journalist had in fact questioned the palace’s neutrality in this election, it would not justify a sanction from the government, much less one as drastic as taking away his accreditation,” Whitson said.
Without accreditation, a journalist risks being denied entry to government news conferences and being unable to obtain comments from government officials or to renew his press card. Morocco should revise its regulations to prohibit the government from using arbitrary criteria, especially any that can be used to punish political commentary, to rescind press accreditation, Human Rights Watch said.
In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which is considered the authoritative interpreter of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), held in its General Comment 34, “Limited accreditation schemes are permissible only where necessary to provide journalists with privileged access to certain places and/or events. Such schemes should be applied in a manner that is non-discriminatory and compatible with article 19 and other provisions of the [ICCPR], based on objective criteria and taking into account that journalism is a function shared by a wide range of actors.”
The press code provides prison terms for a number of nonviolent speech offenses, including, in article 41, for any “offense” directed at the king or the royal princes or princesses, or speech that “harms” the institution of the monarchy, the Islamic religion, or Morocco’s “territorial integrity.” The latter usually is applied to disputing Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara.
On October 29, 2010, Moroccan authorities ordered the closure of Al Jazeera’s Rabat bureau after withdrawing the accreditation of eight of its Morocco-based correspondents over the previous two years. The channel had, according to an official statement, “seriously distorted Morocco's image and manifestly damaged its greater interests, most notably its territorial integrity,” an apparent allusion to Western Sahara.
In January, a new government led by the Party of Justice and Development took office following its victory in legislative elections. Khalfi, the new minister of communications and government spokesman, told Human Rights Watch on April 4, 2012, that he expected to resolve the problem of Al Jazeera so that it could operate again in Morocco; Al Jazeera confirmed that it had held discussions with Moroccan authorities. However, six months later, the station’s Rabat bureau remains shut and Al Jazeera is forced to prepare its reports on Morocco from its head office in Doha, Qatar.
This is not the first time that authorities have withheld accreditation from Brouksy, who is a Moroccan citizen. After the AFP hired him to report for its Rabat bureau in March 2010, authorities refused, without explanation, to accredit him for nearly one year. Some Moroccan observers speculated in the press that the ministry objected to his previous journalistic work as editor-in-chief and a reporter forLe Journal Hebdomadaire, Morocco's most outspoken news organ before it closed. He wrote articles critical of the country's political leadership, including King Mohammed VI and those close to him.
“With Al Jazeera now able to report from post-revolution Tunisia and Libya, Morocco finds itself among the shrinking club of governments in the region that bans Al Jazeera,” Whitson said. “It should exit that club and stop trying to control how journalists cover sensitive subjects like the monarchy and Western Sahara.”
October 29 will mark two years since authorities shut down the Morocco bureau of Al Jazeera television in response to its coverage of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. In a country where the two main languages are Arabic and French, Al Jazeera and the AFP are closely followed.
“A country that respects freedom of expression should not be yanking press cards for mentioning the monarchy in the ‘wrong’ context or shutting down news bureaus because it dislikes their coverage,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
The AFP story by Brouksy concerned special elections for three parliamentary seats in districts where results had been invalidated in the November 2011 general elections. His article described the contest in Tangiers as primarily between the Islamist Party of Justice and Development, which won a plurality in the general elections, and “candidates close to the royal palace running under the banner of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity, founded in 2008 by Fouad Ali el-Himma, who is close to King Mohammed VI.” The article also referred to “a power struggle between the government and the royal palace.”
Communications Minister Moustapha Khalfi, the government spokesman, said in an October 4 statement that the government was rescinding Brouksy’s accreditation because of an “anti-professional dispatch” that contained “statements implicating the institution of the monarchy in this election contest,” thereby “undermining” the monarchy’s “neutrality and role as referee above all electoral competition between political formations.”
The next day, Khalfi told the AFP that Brouksy had disregarded the regulations governing journalists, in particular an article requiring that they “respect national sovereignty, professional rules, and the laws in effect.”
The AFP stood by Brouksy’s article and justified the passage in question as providing context for the election.
“Even if the journalist had in fact questioned the palace’s neutrality in this election, it would not justify a sanction from the government, much less one as drastic as taking away his accreditation,” Whitson said.
Without accreditation, a journalist risks being denied entry to government news conferences and being unable to obtain comments from government officials or to renew his press card. Morocco should revise its regulations to prohibit the government from using arbitrary criteria, especially any that can be used to punish political commentary, to rescind press accreditation, Human Rights Watch said.
In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which is considered the authoritative interpreter of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), held in its General Comment 34, “Limited accreditation schemes are permissible only where necessary to provide journalists with privileged access to certain places and/or events. Such schemes should be applied in a manner that is non-discriminatory and compatible with article 19 and other provisions of the [ICCPR], based on objective criteria and taking into account that journalism is a function shared by a wide range of actors.”
The press code provides prison terms for a number of nonviolent speech offenses, including, in article 41, for any “offense” directed at the king or the royal princes or princesses, or speech that “harms” the institution of the monarchy, the Islamic religion, or Morocco’s “territorial integrity.” The latter usually is applied to disputing Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara.
On October 29, 2010, Moroccan authorities ordered the closure of Al Jazeera’s Rabat bureau after withdrawing the accreditation of eight of its Morocco-based correspondents over the previous two years. The channel had, according to an official statement, “seriously distorted Morocco's image and manifestly damaged its greater interests, most notably its territorial integrity,” an apparent allusion to Western Sahara.
In January, a new government led by the Party of Justice and Development took office following its victory in legislative elections. Khalfi, the new minister of communications and government spokesman, told Human Rights Watch on April 4, 2012, that he expected to resolve the problem of Al Jazeera so that it could operate again in Morocco; Al Jazeera confirmed that it had held discussions with Moroccan authorities. However, six months later, the station’s Rabat bureau remains shut and Al Jazeera is forced to prepare its reports on Morocco from its head office in Doha, Qatar.
This is not the first time that authorities have withheld accreditation from Brouksy, who is a Moroccan citizen. After the AFP hired him to report for its Rabat bureau in March 2010, authorities refused, without explanation, to accredit him for nearly one year. Some Moroccan observers speculated in the press that the ministry objected to his previous journalistic work as editor-in-chief and a reporter forLe Journal Hebdomadaire, Morocco's most outspoken news organ before it closed. He wrote articles critical of the country's political leadership, including King Mohammed VI and those close to him.
“With Al Jazeera now able to report from post-revolution Tunisia and Libya, Morocco finds itself among the shrinking club of governments in the region that bans Al Jazeera,” Whitson said. “It should exit that club and stop trying to control how journalists cover sensitive subjects like the monarchy and Western Sahara.”
Maid to employer: you are granddad of my baby.
Maid to employer: you are granddad of my baby
Also: Maid burns baby's face for pay rise
When a man in Kuwait took his Indian housemaid to hospital for pain and bulging belly, he was surprised to learn she was pregnant although she is not married. His surprise turned into shock when she told him he is the baby’s grandfather.
At first, the employer thought she was joking but quickly dismissed that thought as the maid had never joked with him. When he asked her how, she threw the bombshell at the stunned man — she had a relationship with his 17-year-old son.
Infuriated, the man hurried back home, grabbed his son and began beating him relentlessly as if to wrest a fake confession from him that he was not involved in that affair. But the plain reality is that he was.
“The boy had no choice but to flee home…the man, who was even more furious, returned to hospital and phoned the police, who came and arrested the maid,” the Kuwaiti Arabic language daily Alwatan said.
At first, the employer thought she was joking but quickly dismissed that thought as the maid had never joked with him. When he asked her how, she threw the bombshell at the stunned man — she had a relationship with his 17-year-old son.
Infuriated, the man hurried back home, grabbed his son and began beating him relentlessly as if to wrest a fake confession from him that he was not involved in that affair. But the plain reality is that he was.
“The boy had no choice but to flee home…the man, who was even more furious, returned to hospital and phoned the police, who came and arrested the maid,” the Kuwaiti Arabic language daily Alwatan said.
Maid burns baby’s face for pay rise
An Ethiopian housemaid used a hot iron to burn the face of a two and a half year boy after his father refused to raise her salary and told her to go back home.
A picture published in the Saudi Arabic language daily Alsaudeh showed the hot iron left a big burn mark on the boy’s left cheek under his eye.
The boy’s father Alaa Al Jahni said he had noticed that the maid became hot tempered and hostile after he refused to raise her monthly wage to SR1,500.
“We rejected her demand for a pay rise and told her to go back home next week….she retaliated by burning my son,” he told the paper in the western Red Sea town of Jeddah, where the maid was arrested this week.
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