'El Chapo' returned to Mexico Altiplano prison
- 9 January 2016
- Latin America & Caribbean
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been recaptured and sent back to the maximum-security prison he escaped from six months ago.
He was paraded before cameras before being bundled into a helicopter to Altiplano prison in central Mexico.
He escaped from there in July through a tunnel dug in the showers.
Guzman was arrested on Friday in the city of Los Mochis in his home state of Sinaloa - which he had come to dominate through the drugs cartel he led.
During the early-morning raid, he managed to flee through a drain but was later caught by marines in a shootout.
Six people, including one marine, are reported to have been killed.
Part of the reason he was tracked down was because he contacted actors and producers in the hope of making a film about his life, Mexico's Attorney General Arely Gomez said.
Saudi Arabia v Iran: Riyadh defiant and angry after turbulent week
Ian Black in Saudi capital and Jeddah finds commentators cataloguing alleged Iranian crimes as tensions continue to run high over execution of Shia cleric
On the surface, Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter looks perfectly calm, armed guards at checkpoints, Asian workers squatting between palm trees masking elegant modern offices and the crenellated towers of Saudi government buildings. Iran’s embassy is built in the national style – yellowish brick surrounded by high walls topped with surveillance cameras – with the green, white and red flag of the Islamic republic hanging limply in the winter sunshine.
But it has been a turbulent week. The Iranian mission now stands empty and silent, its diplomats ordered to leave en masse after the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran after Saudi Arabia’s controversial execution of a leading Shia cleric.
News of the death of Nimr al-Nimr instantly ratcheted up the already high tensions between two powerful countries ranged on opposite sides of a deeply unstable Middle East. Forty-six other Saudis – mostly Sunnis convicted for al-Qaida terrorist activities – were also beheaded or shot on 2 January. Three other Shias also died.
Ethiopian security forces 'kill 140 protesters’ over land dispute
Human Rights Watch has accused the Ethiopian capital of killing anti-goverment protesters
A US-based human rights organisation has accused the Ethiopian government of killing 140 protesters over a land dispute.
“Security forces have killed at least 140 protesters and injured many more, according to activists, in what may be the biggest crisis to hit Ethiopia since the 2005 election violence,” writes Felix Horne, a Human Rights Watch researcher.
Mass anti-government protests have erupted across Oromia, Ethiopia's largest region, disputing the capital's plan to expand its control. Demonstrators fear that local farmers will be displaced.
However, the administration has accused the protesters of having strong links to terror groups in the region, BBC reports.
Slovakia vows to refuse entry to Muslim migrants
Responding to the sexual assaults in Cologne and Hamburg, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has reiterated his aim to allow no Muslims into the country. According to reports, some of the attackers were refugees.
Robert Fico said on Thursday that Slovakia would fight against immigration from Muslim countries to prevent attacks like last year's shootings in Paris and large-scale assaults of women in Germany, which took place on New Year's Eve.
"We don't want something like what happened in Germany taking place in Slovakia," Fico said, adding that the country must "prevent [its] women from being molested in public places."
According to reports by local German newspaper "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" and an online preview of investigations by Sunday paper "Welt am Sonntag," Cologne authorities have identified some of the perpetrators in the attacks as been Syrian asylum seekers.
From drugs to pet iguanas: Snapshots from a Nicaraguan prison
Photos taken by inmates and posted on Facebook offer a rare look into life for prisoners at a jail in Nicaragua. The photos are testament to the deplorable conditions that the prisoners live in and the violence that reigns in the facility.
Since 2008, the Nicaraguan government has made it increasingly difficult for human rights advocates to gain access to the La Modelo prison, located in the western town of Tipitapa. The Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights has decried this on several occasions.
Only a few stories published by the local press give a small, rare glimpses into what happens behind the walls of La Modelo prison. Recently, local journalists reported on a telephone smuggling network within the prison, as well as a rape case and an inmate who died after being beaten.
Inside Delhi's gadget graveyard where the West's e-waste ends up
Matt Wade
Indian men, women and children process discarded technology for as little as $2.10 a day and it is slowly poisoning them, writes Matt Wade.
Imran Mansoori kneels in an alleyway picking over a tangle of electronic trash.
He's one of thousands of e-waste workers in India's capital, Delhi, which has emerged as one of Asia's biggest e-waste processing hubs.
People sit and work without any safety precautions such as gloves, masks and so on.Priti Mahesh, Toxics Link
Much of the junk on Imran's pile is familiar – the shell of a TV remote, a shattered Wi-Fi router and a squashed credit/debit card reader. This is the graveyard for countless electronic gadgets.
The grimy lane where Imran works is strewn with the debris of the e-age. One shop is packed to the ceiling with those familiar rectangular steel boxes that house computers under office desks across the world. Another gloomy hole in the wall is crammed with neatly stacked flat screen televisions. Across the alley from Imran, a young man, maybe in his teens, sits cross legged in a tiny room using a chisel to separate electronic components. The wall beside him is piled waste-high with circuit boards ready to be dismantled. Another young man next door uses a small drill to disassemble steel circuit boxes at lighting speed.
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