[Iran Press TV Latest] More than 80 people have been wounded in violent clashes between police forces and opposition protesters across Bangladesh, officials say.
According to Bangladeshi authorities, the protesters erected street barricades and hurled bricks at police in the capital city of Dhaka.
Sources say some police officers were also injured in the unrest on Wednesday.
The clashes broke out after the arrest of three top politicians of Jamaat-e-Islami party, who are charged with insulting religious sentiments and demanding a pay hike for textile workers.
According to the party, police detained 25 other party members in overnight raids.
The violence took place three days after a general strike called by opposition parties. The one-day walkout hit most businesses and provoked clashes with police.
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Mexican Marines arrested three men in Sonora and seized a number of contraband items, including dugs and guns, say Mexican news reports.
Elements of the 4th Naval Region acted on an anonymous tip concerning drug sales in the Infonavit Guadalupe district of Empalme, and arrested Daniel Mares Gonzälez, 43, Daniel Antonio Mares, de 19 and Luis Eugenio Carretas Bojorquez, 21. The trio were aboard two stolen trucks when they were arrested.
Drugs seized included 555 doses of cocaine, 519 doses of "crystal" and three kilograms of marijuana. The Marines also seized three guns, 193 weapons cartridges and a fragmentary hand grenade.
Google Translate with a hat tip to Nota Roja for additional details.
Edited at 00:02: Body count is at nine and expected to go higher.
*shudder* I am grateful to live on the north side of the Mexican border. It would be nice of those illegals who've moved back home decided to use what they learnt up north to put an end to this kind of nonsense.
Edited at 16:47: Three more dead found making the total dead at 12.
Mexican police and military authorities located a mass grave containing at least eight victims on a remote farm south of Monterrey, Neuvo Leon, according to Mexican news reports.
The area is so inaccessable, authorities must navigate about 10 kilometers of dirt road to reach it. The location is near the Hacienda Santa Ana farm near Cerro de la Silla. Police located the graves of two people near a brick ranchhouse on a field on the property where they also rescued two unidentified hostages.
Authorities also seized documents.
Documents are good. So are cell phones and computers. Odd how the Mexicans don't report collecting cell phones along with bodies...
Reports are that several more graves may be on the site in addition to the three already found.
In a clearing by a pond about 400 meters away they located two more graves.
To the rear of the ranchhouse authorities found three more bodies. Nearby was an area suspected used for target practice using high powered rifles.
Nearby was a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV, a Silverado pickup truck and a Ford pickup truck.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Chechen capital Grozny, injuring seven people including five police officers outside a concert hall where pro-Russia Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov was present.
The explosion rocked Grozny this evening when a suicide bomber blew himself up during document check. A 22-year-old local resident approached a police vehicle parked near a concert hall in downtown Grozny, where pro-Moscow President Kadyrov was present for the performance and investigators do not rule out an assassination attempt.
"It is unclear what he wanted, but the policemen showed their worth and he blew himself up," Kadyrov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. He said the blast was minor, adding that not one window in nearby buildings was shattered and people inside the theatre did not hear the explosion.
The police cordon around the site of the blast has been lifted and traffic on Putin Avenue and nearby streets resumed.
Did Putin Avenue used to be Stalin Avenue, and before that Tsar Nicholas II Avenue?
SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- A Seoul court Thursday sentenced two North Korean spies to a 10-year jail term for attempting to assassinate a high-profile North Korean defector critical of the communist North and its top leader. The two defendants, known only as Kim, 36, and Tong, 34, were arrested in April on charges of posing as fugitives in a plot to kill Hwang Jang-yop, former secretary of the North's ruling Workers' Party and chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly.
The Seoul Central District Court said that confessions and statements from Kim and Tong regarding motives for their fake defections, planned crimes, infiltration routes and personal careers are all convincing enough to convict them of violating the National Security Law.
"It is also acknowledged that the residence of Hwang is a classified information and the figures contacted by Kim and Tong in China are members of North Korea or other anti-state organizations," said the court.
The court also noted that Hwang's defection to the South is "a symbol of South Korean system's superiority" and should they succeed in settling down here, it could have been a major threat to the safety of Hwang considering their military training.
The two, both former North Korean military officers, arrived in Seoul last December disguised as defectors on orders by the North's reconnaissance unit in charge of espionage operations against South Korea.
Hwang, 88, defected to South Korea in 1997 and has received repeated death threats for criticizing his former boss, Kim Jong-il. The location of his residence is not publicly known, and South Korean police keep him under round-the-clock surveillance.
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The authorities should let it be known that the assassins were quick to give themselves up, offering information about their bosses, and saying that prison in South Korea was better than living in North Korea.
I'm sure their bosses in the North would be happy to hear about that. And not being able to torture and murder their assassins themselves, they would probably kill everyone associated with them.
Suspected Maoists torched a house killing an 80-year-old woman and her elderly daughter when they did not find a CPM leader on Wednesday night.
Their neighbours at Bagdubi village, who had kept mum for a day, called up Nabin Hembrum in his hideout this morning and told him his house was gutted and they had seen two bodies amid the rubble.
Nabin, who stays 40km away in Khatra since the Maoists named him on a hit list, went to police after hearing what had happened to his house.
The police removed its burnt remains amid the stink of rotting flesh and pulled out the bodies of Amala Hembrum and Saraswati Hembrum, 55.
The Maoists had shot dead Nabins younger brother Kalipada last December. He had stayed back to look after their farmland when Nabin and another brother, Gabin, fled home.
The Maoists had been hunting for Nabin since the CRPF shot dead two squad members on December 15, 2006. They think it was Nabin who tipped off the police about their presence in Bagdubi, a police officer said. The hit list was released soon after.
Nabin was a CPM local committee member and a leader in his village. His brothers were party sympathisers.
Residents of Bagdubi, a village in the midst of a jungle 210km from Calcutta, said 30-40 people came to the Hembrums house around 9.30pm on Wednesday. They went inside and we heard muffled voices and screams. We were terrified and did not dare to go near. Soon after, the attackers stepped out and set the hut ablaze. They watched it burn for some time and left. In the morning, we ventured closer and saw from a distance the burnt bodies, said a villager.
Nabin and Gabin identified their mother and sister from their burnt clothes and bangles. Their faces had been charred beyond recognition.
Since December 2006, this was the second time the brothers stepped into the village. The only other occasion was Kalipadas death.
Revenge appears to have been the motive, Bankura police chief Vishal Garg said. The rebels would have known that Nabin wouldnt be at home.
This is the first time CPI (Maoist) guerrillas have killed their targets kin in his absence. In May 2002, alleged Peoples War Group members had killed CPM member Sristidhar Mahatos wife and three-year-old daughter after he gave them the slip. A 60-year-old woman related to the Mahatos was also killed in West Midnapores Salboni. On December 31, 2005, the partys Purulia district secretariat member, Rabindranath Kar, and his wife were locked in and burnt by the Maoists in Bandwan.
Although it was not clear why the Maoists killed Nabins mother and sister, police sources said it was meant to warn people against informing the police about their activities. It comes at a time when several Maoists have been arrested following tip-offs from villagers, the officer said.
The Maoists are suspected to have abducted the teenage son of a CPM leader in West Midnapores Binpur.
Branch committee member Motilal Tudu said one of his neighbours got a call last night in which a man demanded the release of an arrested Maoist action squad member in exchange for his son. The police said the Maoists wanted the release of Durga Mandi, who had been arrested on June 20.
Six people came on motorcycles and took Srimanta, 18, away last night. Motilal has been staying away from home as he is on the rebels hit list.
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According to some professional haunted house fixers, those poor souls who are unjustly burned alive are the spirits most likely to remain and haunt a place for years even decades beyond their physical death. I happen to believe in this kind of thing. Holy water from the Ganges and a vedic mantra would free these poor souls. "In My Name They Shall Cast Out" Mark 16:17
Raipur: The brutal face of Naxals who killed 27 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday came out when they slit open throats and smashed the heads of some of the security men.
According to the preliminary post-mortem reports the personnel were brutally killed by the Naxals and around three to four bullet wounds were found on all the 27 CRPF personnel bodies.
"The Naxalites shot dead the CRPF personnel from a distance and later, they slit open the throats of three and smashed heads of two other jawans," a top police official said.
The bodies of the CRPF personnel were airlifted from the thick forests of Dhodawyee to the state capital's Dr BR Ambedkar hospital for conducting post-mortem.
While the CRPF personnel foiled the Naxals move of attempting to loot the armory, 27 jawans were killed, he said, adding "police believe that around 15 Naxalites were killed in the cross-firing".
A large number of heavily-armed Naxals, perched on a hilltop, had opened fire with automatic weapons on a 63-member security contingent which was returning on foot from road opening duty yesterday.
The dead included a CRPF Assistant Commandant Jatin Gulati.
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[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday offered that the government would hold dialogue with the Taliban if they surrendered their arms. They won't surrender their manhood arms, and talks have always worked so well before...
While talking to media representatives outside the Parliament House, Malik said holding dialogue with the Afghan Taliban was a political decision of the Afghan government.
If the Taliban in Pakistan agree to lay down their arms, we will also hold talks with them, he added.
Malik, on the occasion, also criticised the Sharif brothers and said that they had the right to express their views but talking about the government's dismissal was not appropriate.
He condemned the demand of mid-term elections and termed it as an insult to the PPP's mandate.
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So , security and now negotiation are not his forte .. perfect job for an anti ISI stooge .
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Pakistan authorities have arrested 11 people suspected of being behind the attacks on NATO fuel convoys in the country's North Western Frontier Province.
The usual suspects, or actual miscreants?
The Pakistani law enforcement officers made the arrests based on information provided by the NATO supply drivers, who had formerly survived militant attacks, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
The Provincial authorities have instituted an investigative committee to probe the terrorist attacks on NATO fuel convoys.
Four companies contracted by NATO to provide logistics and security for the foreign fuel convoys have been taken over by the government for failing to fulfill the task.
The provincial government has also held responsible three other logistics company in relation to the issue.
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I would hope that the convoys are under realtime video surveillance and that the video is used to backtrack to targets for predators...
The Indian-held Kashmir government sought the army's help on Tuesday and imposed a curfew in the region to control continuing unrest, when firing by security personnel on stone-pelting protesters left three more people dead. The army moved in Sopore and the adjoining Baramulla township, as violence spread to South Kashmir and more areas of North Kashmir.
At least 13 people were injured in fresh clashes between protesters and security forces across the valley, police said.
On Tuesday, deaths were reported from the southern Anantnag district where protesters had gathered on the streets. Police identified the killed protesters as Ishfaq Ahmed Khanday, Imtiyaz Ahmad Itoo and Shujatul Islam. The victims were part of a mob hurling stones at Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Anchidoora in Anantnag town, 55 kilometres of Srinagar, police said.
Locals alleged that the CRPF personnel barged into houses and shops while chasing a violent mob protesting the rise in killings by security forces, and shot the victims in a house and a bakery. Death toll in the firings has reached to eight in a week. Two people had died in CRPF firing in Sopore and Baramulla on Monday.
Reports of violence were also reported from across the valley in Kupwara, Bandipur, Budgam, Pulwama Kangan and Sumbal areas.
In the northern town of Kupwara, at least five protestors and four policemen were injured when CRPF and police resorted to baton-charge and teargas shelling to disperse hundreds of people from Kupwara and adjoining areas who protested and tried to march towards Sopore. Massive protests were also held in nearby Handwara. Protestors from Rajwar, Handwara and Kulangam assembled at the Handwara Chowk to march towards Sopore.
Services blocked: Under the current situation, mobile services in North Kashmir and SMS service in the entire valley were blocked on the instructions of the government.
Separately, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram pledged support to the IHK government to enforce curfew restrictions sternly and end rioting. In a statement after a high-level meeting of security chiefs to review the situation in IHK, the minister blamed anti-national elements for attempting to exploit the situation, and appealed to the people to help restore law and order.
Anti-state elements: "There are reliable reports that anti-national elements are trying to exploit the situation. Some militants may also have sneaked into the valley to trigger violence. I appeal to all those who believe in peace and development to stand by the state government and help it restore law and order," he added.
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Maoist rebels killed at least 27 paramilitary troops in an ambush in eastern India on Tuesday, the latest in a series of bold attacks by the guerrillas, a senior police official said.
A 50-strong patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force was ambushed on Tuesday evening on a routine patrol in a densely forested area in the Narayanpur district of Chhatisgarh state, said Sunder Raj, a senior local police official. Ten other troops were wounded, he said.
Few other details were immediately available from the remote area. It is a stronghold of the rebels, who are also called Naxals, after the village of Naxalbari where their movement started in the 1970s.
The government launched a major offensive last year to tackle the worsening left-wing insurgency, but since then the Maoists have hit back -- triggering widespread criticism of officials and politicians.
Maoist rebel groups have fought for decades throughout east and central India against state and government rule, drawing support from landless tribal groups and farmers left behind by the country's economic development.
In the last major attack by suspected Maoists, one month ago 146 people were killed when a Mumbai-bound passenger train from Kolkata was derailed by saboteurs in a remote part of West Bengal state.
The express veered into the path of an oncoming freight train after a section of the track was removed.
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The Lahore police has arrested three activists of a banned militant organisation under suspicion of involvement in attacks on UN vehicles and other installations across the country, Daily Times has learnt.
According to police sources, the arrested militants were handed over to another law enforcement agency for further investigation.
The sources said that following the monitoring of cellular phones of suspected activists of the banned organization, law enforcers discovered several clues about the presence of a group of terrorists in the provincial capital.
Later, after several days of surveillance, law enforcers discovered that several other terrorists were set to gather at the house of one Amir in Shalimar area on Monday. Upon making the discovery, police high-ups immediately formed a special team consisting of personnel of intelligence agencies and commandos of the Lahore police.
The special team conducted a raid on Amir's house and arrested Amir and two unidentified people. The team then handed over all three arrested suspects to the personnel of another law enforcement agency, who immediately shifted the men to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
"Later, during initial interrogation, it was established that the three arrested people had strong links with terrorist groups working across the country. It was also discovered that they were the masterminds of the attacks on UN vehicles and other installations across the country," the sources said, adding that the arrested men also confessed about their hideouts in various parts of the city, on which the Lahore police hierarchy issued directions for an immediate large-scale operation in the disclosed areas.
More arrests: Following the directions, several teams of the Lahore police conducted raids at terrorist hideouts in different areas of the city as well as its outskirts on Monday night. "During which, police teams arrested more than 15 suspects and shifted them to undisclosed locations for further investigations," the sources said, adding that so far all the arrested men have been declared suspects in incidents of terrorism across the province and so far all the arrested men have failed to provide their identification documents to the authorities.
"During the crackdown, a special police team also arrested a terrorist from Z-Block Defence housing Authority (DHA) Lahore and recovered a large quantity of explosives from his possession," the sources said.
Quoting the discoveries made in the investigation, the sources said that the arrested terrorists also disclosed their future targets and the arrival of several accomplices in the provincial capital. "On which, the city police hierarchy with the cooperation of intelligence agencies has deputed specially trained personnel at the city's entry points... the personnel are fully equipped with the latest technology and have been informed of the whereabouts of the alleged terrorists," the sources added.
To summarize: a team of Lahore police plus a variety of other unknown security types seized three men, two of them unknown, and spirited them away to a secret hide-out where they were interrogated by members of possibly yet another unknown internal security organization. Based on the results of that interrogation, teams of unknown security personnel seized fifteen more individuals at various spots around the city, and claim the additional gloss of a cache of explosives as well. Nobody knows where the eighteen captives are, or what has become of them, but emergency orders for mustache wax and Number Seven truncheons are reported to have been filled. More arrests are expected momentarily as a result.
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[Dawn] At least 20 suspected militants were killed when fighter jets bombed insurgent hideouts in a new assault in the Orakzai tribal region where the army had previously declared victory, a government official said.
Samiullah Khan, a deputy administrator in the tribal region, said the aerial bombings Wednesday destroyed six Taliban hideouts in the region.
Khan said field informants confirmed the killing of 20 suspected militants.
Pakistan's army has been engaged in a military operation in Orakzai for months, believing it to be a hiding place for Taliban fighters fleeing another offensive further south in the tribal belt.
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A US drone fired two missiles on a compound used by the Punjabi Taliban in South Waziristan on Tuesday, killing at least ten insurgents, including an al Qaeda foreign fighter.
According to intelligence officials, the missiles struck the house, which was near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.
The house was known to be frequented by al Qaeda members and was being used by the Punjabi Taliban, intelligence officials said. Four militants were also wounded in the attack, the officials added. This is the first drone strike in South Waziristan since July 2009.
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NEWS KERALA > MILITANTS MAY ATTACK PUNJABI GOVERNOR, POLITICIANS.
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* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INTERROGATION OF SENIOR MAOIST REVEALS STARTLING FACTS: MAOISTS PLAN TO SPREAD/EXPAND THEIR MAYHEM TO SOUTH INDIA AND LINK UP WITH ISLAMISTS.
* SAME B.R. > MAOISTS MAY TARGET POLITICIANS + NAXALITES DECLARE WAR ON MNCS [oper in India].
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: A police officer and a gunman were killed and three people were wounded in an armed attack in west of Anbar, a security source said on Wednesday.
"Unknown gunmen killed a police officer in an armed attack on a medical compound in central Heit district, west of Anbar," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Policemen clashed with the attackers, killing one of them, while two passing civilians, including a woman, and a gunman were wounded," he added.
A gunman blew himself up on Wednesday when policemen arrested him after an attack on a medical compound in western Anbar, according to a security source.
Policemen arrested a wounded gunman after clashes with an armed group, which attacked a medical compound in Heit district, western Anbar, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The gunman blew up an explosive belt strapped to his body after the forces arrested him, leaving an unspecified number of casualties, he added, noting that security authorities imposed a curfew on the district.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Wednesday arrested a recently freed Hamas MP for refusing to follow an order expelling him from Jerusalem, police said. Mohammed Abu Teir was one of four senior Hamas officials Israel has been trying to expel in recent weeks, sparking concern among Arabs in Jerusalem worried about their rights as residents.
"We arrested him; he has broken the law and stayed within the borders of the state of Israel," said Jerusalem police spokesman Shmulik Ben-Ruby. "He has been detained and taken for questioning."
Israel had sought to strip Jerusalem IDs from Abu Teir, Khaled Abu Arafeh, a former minister for Jerusalem affairs, and MPs Ahmad Atoun and Mohammed Totah, a step that would likely result in their expulsion to the West Bank or the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
The men have appealed the decision, with a final ruling expected in September. In the meantime, they have been ordered to remain in the West Bank.
So they're not quite fearless enough to live with their comrades in Gaza? Enjoying the fleshpots of Ramallah and East Jerusalem instead?
Many Palestinians fear their expulsion could set a precedent for the removal of more of the nearly 270,000 Palestinians living in east Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 and annexed in a move not recognized internationally.
Palestinians living in east Jerusalem hold Israeli-issued IDs that allow them to travel freely in Israel and the West Bank, collect government benefits and vote in local but not national elections.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Israeli police have arrested a leading Hamas official over his links with the Islamic group after he failed to leave his hometown of al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Mohammad Abu Tir and three other Hamas officials were ordered to leave al-Quds in June after they refused to renounce their membership in the Islamic resistance movement Hamas.
Their ID cards, which are also their residence permits, were revoked in June, and they were ordered to leave al-Quds by the end of July.
"I will not willingly leave the place my family has lived for 500 years," Abu Tir said last week.
Abu Tir and several other Hamas officials were arrested and detained after Hamas captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006. Abu Tir, who has spent nearly 30 years in Israeli jails, was released from jail in May.
Tel Aviv has not announced where the four Palestinians will be expelled to.
Israel has stripped thousands of Palestinians of their al-Quds (Jerusalem) residency since occupying the eastern part of the city in 1967.
Most Palestinians view the expulsions as part of an Israeli Judiazation plan meant to weaken their hold on East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and its holy sites and to change the city's demography.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] An Israeli soldier and several civilians have been arrested for allegedly passing information to the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and smuggling drugs across the border, the army said on Wednesday.
"It is suspected that an IDF warrant officer and a number of Israeli civilians were in contact with Lebanese drug dealers so as to smuggle drugs over the border," a statement said.
"According to the investigation, it is alleged that the warrant officer passed on military-security information to Lebanese drug dealers, connected to the Hezbollah terror organization," it said.
The statement, which did not identify the soldier or give further details on the civilians or their number, said charges would be filed in the coming days.
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A Kassam rocket was fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, damaging a factory in the Sdot Negev Regional Council area. Police called to the area by residents reported that nobody was injured in the attack.
The rocket fell on a packaging plant at approximately four in the morning on Wednesday morning and the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing was closed shortly afterward due to terror warnings.
In response to the attack MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) said that this event illustrates the need for active defense systems on Israel's border with Gaza to prevent rocket attacks.
The attack came after IAF aircraft struck in the Gaza Strip overnight Thursday, targeting a weapons cache in the north and two smuggling tunnels in the south. The IDF action was a response to several rocket attacks that targeted southern Israel on Thursday.
Two mortar shells and a Kassam rocket landed near one of the kibbutzim in the Negev Regional Council area. Three more mortar shells landed in the Ashkelon area. No damage or injuries were reported in Thursday's attacks.
The attack came as the Security Cabinet is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to discuss the liberalization of the Gaza blockade ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's trip to Washington to meet with US President Barack Obama next week.
Tuesday evening Israel authorized the Palestinians to let 150 trucks with aid into the Strip each day. The number is twenty more than was previously allowed.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A military court has sentenced two men to death in connection with the deaths of at least three anti-government protesters in Kahrizak jail, Iran's state news agency IRNA said on Wednesday.
"Two defendants were sentenced to qisas (death penalty), nine others were sentenced to jail and lashes, and one was acquitted," the agency reported, quoting a court statement.
It said the two, who under Iranian law have 20 days to appeal, were found guilty of "inflicting intentional abuse leading to the murder of Mohammad Kamrani, Amir Javadi-far and Mohsen Ruholamini."
Iran's judiciary said at the start of the trial in March that 11 policemen and one civilian were facing charges over the deaths last summer in the notorious Kahrizak jail, south of Tehran.
The court statement did not specify whether the civilian was among the two condemned to death.
The case has caused major embarrassment to the Islamic republic, which acknowledged, after months of denial, that the deaths at the detention centre were the result of injuries inflicted in Kahrizak.
The centre was shut down last July at the order of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following reports of abuse.
In January, a parliamentary probe found Tehran's feared former prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi responsible for sending post-election protesters to Kahrizak last year and called for his punishment.
Among the three young men who died of abuse in Kahrizak was Ruholamini, 25, the son of a well-known conservative politician. They were arrested in street protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.
A fourth protester was also reportedly feared dead after being jailed in Kahrizak, but this has not been officially confirmed.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday offered that the government would hold dialogue with the Taliban if they surrendered their arms.
[Dawn] At least 20 suspected militants were killed when fighter jets bombed insurgent hideouts in a new assault in the Orakzai tribal region where the army had previously declared victory, a government official said.
A US drone fired two missiles on a compound used by the Punjabi Taliban in South Waziristan on Tuesday, killing at least ten insurgents, including an al Qaeda foreign fighter.
JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Wednesday arrested a recently freed Hamas MP for refusing to follow an order expelling him from Jerusalem, police said. 
A Kassam rocket was fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, damaging a factory in the Sdot Negev Regional Council area. Police called to the area by residents reported that nobody was injured in the attack.
