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| Iran executes man for links to exiled opposition group - Fars |
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| Iran executed a man on Sunday for links with the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an exiled Iranian opposition group, the semi-official Fars news agency said. Fars said Iran had charged Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani with providing financial assistance to the PMOI, which seeks the removal of the Islamic Republic's clerical leadership. At the time of his arrest, Fars said, Iranian police found video and documents describing "important centres including military installations" which had been passed on to the PMOI. |
| U.S. hopes prisoner exchange might bring Taliban breakthroughs |
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 By David Brunnstrom BAGRAM Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Sunday he hoped a prisoner-exchange deal between the United States and the Taliban that freed a U.S. soldier held for nearly five years might lead to breakthroughs in reconciliation with the Afghan militants. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the last POW from America's waning Afghan war, was handed over to U.S. special forces in Afghanistan on Saturday in a dramatic swap for five Taliban detainees who were released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and flown to Qatar. "Whether that could lead to possible new breakthroughs with the Taliban, I don't know.
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| Amnesty says Iranian dissident faces imminent execution |
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| Amnesty International urged Iran on Saturday not to execute a political dissident convicted of "enmity against God" in what it said had been an unfair trial, as his family said they feared he would be hanged within hours. Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani was sentenced in 2010 in connection to alleged links with the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) a group that seeks to overthrow the Islamic Republic, Amnesty says. The PMOI, which has an office in Paris, said Savajani's family had been summoned to the jail where he was being held and had been told he would be executed on Sunday morning. "Yet again Iranian authorities are about to execute a man who did not even receive a fair trial in total disregard of both international law and the Iranian law," said Hassiba Hadj Saharoui, of London-based Amnesty International. |
| McDonald's murder in China sparks outrage |
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| The murder of a woman at a fastfood restaurant in China has sparked a national outcry after it was revealed she was beaten to death for allegedly refusing to give her telephone number to members of a banned religious group. The 37-year-old woman was attacked by a group of people who were described as being members of the Church of Almighty God religious movement, state media reported. The attack occurred last Wednesday at a McDonald's restaurant in northeastern Shandong province and was captured on surveillance video, the official Xinhua News Agency said in a commentary. Video footage of the attack was shown on China Central Television on Saturday. |
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