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Iran replaces police chief amid protests
General Ahmad-Reza Radan sanctioned by US in 2010,
and later on by European Union
Published: January 07, 2023 17:45
AFP
This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on January 7, 2023
shows him meeting with the newly-appointed police chief General Ahmad-Reza Radan in Tehran.
Image Credit: AFP
Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Saturday a new police chief, nearly four months into protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death.
The Islamic republic has been gripped by unrest since the September 16 death in custody of Iranian Kurdish Amini, 22, following her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
Khamenei, who has the final say in major state policies and is commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces, appointed General Ahmad-Reza Radan to replace Hossein Ashtari, said a statement posted on the leader’s official website.
Khamenei ordered the police department to “improve its capabilities” as well as “train specialised forces for various security sectors”.
This doesn't sound very promising for the girls.
Radan, born in 1963, was deputy police chief from 2008 to 2014 and went on to lead the police’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He was replaced as deputy by Ashtari, who was made the force’s commander in 2015.
Both Radan and Ashtari began their military career in the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The new police chief was sanctioned by the United States in 2010, and later on by the European Union, over “human rights abuses” in connection with protests that followed Iran’s contested presidential elections of 2009.
In the statement announcing Radan’s appointment, Khamenei expressed “gratitude and satisfaction” with Ashtari’s eight-year service.
Iranian authorities describe the current nationwide protests as “riots” and say hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands arrested.
Saudi Arabia: Expat held for harbouring 17 absconding women
in Riyadh
In recent months, Saudi Arabia has intensified clampdown on illegals, facilitators
Published: January 07, 2023 15:22
Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent
Cairo: Police in Riyadh had arrested an expatriate for illegally employing and accommodating 17 female expatriates, reported to have absented themselves from their official workplaces, Saudi media reported.
The male suspect, an Egyptian national, had harboured the absentees in a housing unit in Riyadh in violation of law.
They all were arrested and referred to public prosecution, police said, without giving further details.
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry has repeatedly warned that those who facilitate the entry of infiltrators into the kingdom or provide them with transportation, shelter or any sort of assistance face penalties of a maximum of 15 years in prison, and a fine of up to SR1 million, as well as confiscation of the transport and the accommodation means, in addition to naming to shame them.
In recent months, Saudi Arabia, which hosts a large community of migrant workers, has intensified a crackdown on violators of its labour, residency and border security laws.
Last week, Saudi authorities arrested two citizens for transporting and sheltering illegal expatriates in the south-western region of Asir.
A spokesman for Asir police said transportation and accommodation of violators of the border security rules is a major, dishonouring crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a hefty fine.
Saudi Arabia earlier this month said it had arrested 15,328 illegal expatriates in one week.
The arrests, made over the period from December 22 to 28, included 8,808 violators of the kingdom’s residency system, 4,038 more violators of the border security rules and 2,482 others who breached the labour regulations.
During the same period, authorities arrested 10 persons for involvement in transporting and sheltering violators of residency, border and work regulations.
Times Square 'jihadi', 19, was arrested with chilling manifesto
Ordered family to convert to Islam to avoid 'hellfire' -
and apologized to mother for 'not having been a good enough son'
Bickford allegedly wrote a manifesto in which he told family members to 'repent to Allah'
In a message to his brother who is in the Army, Bickford said 'you have joined the ranks of my enemy. And for that I can give you no kind words'
The attack happened around 10pm near Times Square on New Year's Eve
Two officers, including a rookie NYPD cop, were injured in the attack
By ANDREA CAVALLIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:07 EST, 1 January 2023 | UPDATED: 17:26 EST, 1 January 2023
Please go to The Daily Mail for the full story.
Survey: Young Danes opposed to their children being educated alongside immigrants
A third clearly oppose integration as they would never consider
entering into a relationship with one
Trampolinhuset prefers to blame the politicians, not the people (photo: Trampolinhuset)
January 4th, 2023 1:10 pm|
by Ben Hamilton
The Copenhagen Post
It’s often said that Danes are fiercely protective of their culture, but that younger generations are far more open to societal change and diversity. However. a new study of young ethnically-Danish people’s attitudes towards immigrants would appear to buck that theory.
It suggests that while young Danes are generally sympathetic to the plight of refugees, they would not like to see them, or immigrants, educated at the same schools as their children.
Last summer, around 500 Danes aged 18-30 took part in ‘Changing Minds – Improving Citizens’, a survey conducted by Trampolinhuset in collaboration with partners in Romania and Spain, where a further 1,000 young adults were interviewed.
A third of the sample in Denmark concur there are too many immigrants in Denmark, and that they have no interest in entering into a relationship with one.
Positive about economic benefits
Some 85 percent agreed that there were many/a fair number of immigrants in Denmark – of these, 45 percent said there were too many.
Some 41 percent believe the immigrants are far more likely to commit crimes than ethnic Danes, and only 36 percent said they would be comfortable with having one as a neighbour.
While the women in the survey said they empathised with the challenges faced by immigrants, most men said they were mostly indifferent to their situation, with some saying they felt threatened.
Those who were positive about immigration said they were happy about the increased cultural diversity and economic growth it caused.
Politicians’ rhetoric to blame
Trampolinhuset regards the survey as a wake-up call that Denmark “cannot live in isolation from the outside world”, but is not surprised by the findings.
“The survey reveals attitudes that are natural for a generation that has grown up with governments, politicians and opinion makers over the last 25 years using immigrants and refugees actively as enemy images in their political campaigns,” it contended.
This is a typically far-left observation that is nowhere near reality. It's not the conservative politicians who have influenced opinion, it is the liberal governments who decided that cultural suicide was a good thing. It was also the reality of migrants bringing criminal behaviour to Denmark, as well as a religion that has no tolerance for Christianity.
“We need their ideas and labour. Today’s Danes already come in all colours and with many different cultures in their luggage. If we want democracy for all of us, we must stop thinking in ‘them and us’ terms. Since our politicians live in the past, it is a task that civil society must undertake.”
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