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The Justice of Suriname refuses to suspend the conviction of former former President Bouterse fugitive
The Court of Justice of Suriname rejected the appeal to suspend the convictions of former fugitive president Desi Bouterse and the other four convicted of the murder of 15 political opponents in 1982.
The former president’s lawyers alleged that the judicial process against his clients was not fair, and that is what the Court of Justice had to determine today, which declared it “inadmissible.”
The former governor must thus serve his 20-year prison sentence, issued last December, since the court decided not to suspend the sentence or its execution.
However, one of the lawyers, Murwin Dubois, quoted by the Surinamese media, indicated that they will “carefully study the considerations of the court” to determine other steps to be taken.
Dubois said that the legal team still believes that procedural errors were made in the trial.
Although the legal options for Bouterse and the other four convicts – sentenced to 15 years in prison – to avoid punishment were exhausted, the question remains whether the former president will serve that sentence.
Bouterse, 78 years old and president between 2010 and 2020, has been a fugitive from the Surinamese authorities since last January, when he should have appeared before the authorities, and his whereabouts are unknown.
Interpol issued a red notice against Desi Bouterse last week for law enforcement around the world to locate and arrest him.
Bouterse, who led a military government in the 1980s, had already been sentenced in 2021 for the massacre of opponents to 20 years in prison by the Surinamese Martial Court, which confirmed a similar ruling in 2019.
The victims – journalists, military, union leaders, lawyers, businessmen and university professors – arrested on December 8, 1982 and transferred to the then headquarters of the Surinamese National Army, where they were tortured and later summarily executed.
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Seven bodies found with signs of torture in Sinaloa
Mexican authorities discovered seven lifeless bodies on Wednesday, showing clear signs of torture, in the rural area of Culiacán, Sinaloa, just one day after the same number of bodies was found in several municipalities in the western state of Mexico.
Six of these seven victims were found along the side of the highway that connects Culiacán to Mazatlán, near Laguna de Canachi, according to local media reports, which also noted that messages addressed to a criminal group were found near the bodies.
This brings the total number of violent deaths in the region to seven within just 24 hours. On Tuesday, authorities reported more victims found in the municipalities of Culiacán, Elota, and Mazatlán.
Among the victims identified was a local cattle rancher named Ramón Velázquez Ontiveros, as well as a police officer from Mazatlán, who was killed by a motorcyclist outside his home in San Marcos.
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Málaga paralyzed by new storm as torrential rains hit Spain
Thousands of people were evacuated and trains were suspended as torrential rains once again struck Spain on Wednesday, following the devastating floods that killed at least 223 people two weeks ago, most of them in the Valencia region.
The national meteorological agency (Aemet) issued a maximum, red-level alert for the Andalusian province of Málaga in the south, and for Tarragona in the northeast, due to the new DANA (isolated depression at high levels), also known as a cold drop.
The city of Málaga appeared to be the hardest hit by the rains, with more than 3,000 people evacuated from 1,000 homes near rivers, flooded streets, and the suspension of urban transport and train services to Madrid.
“Today Málaga is paralyzed,” said Andalusia’s regional president, Juan Manuel Moreno, to reporters. “I know it is a problem for citizens not being able to take their children to school or go to work, but after what we saw in Valencia, we need to ‘prevent’ and minimize the impact in terms of loss of life,” he added.
The storm also led to the postponement of a match between Spain and Poland in the Billie Jean King Cup women’s tennis competition, which was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Málaga.
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Hezbollah launches explosive drone strike on Israel’s defense headquarters
The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah claimed on Wednesday that it launched an attack with explosive drones against the Israeli army’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The Iran-backed organization reported in a statement that it had carried out “an aerial attack with a squadron of explosive drones” targeting the site that houses Israel’s main defense institutions.
Hezbollah later stated that it also fired a barrage of rockets at the Glilot military intelligence base in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military indicated that “sirens sounded in several areas of northern and central Israel following the launch of projectiles from Lebanon.”
It later clarified that “five projectiles were identified over the territory, and some were intercepted.”
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