Mobilization for a prisoner to the thirty-seven years prison

Un thousand people have already signed a call for Philippe El Shennawy a robber 58 years who has spent thirty-seven years behind bars and is releasable in 2032. Case considered "inhuman", which is based the issue of long sentences.

They are already more than a thousand to support its cause. Launched by five personalities from academia and the judiciary, calling for the prisoner Philippe El Shennawy request that the appeal filed by mid-December by his lawyer to the Head of State "should be considered with urgency and humanity to prevent what would be a disguised fulfillment. " This 58 year old man, convicted multiple times for robberies and escapes - and "no blood on their hands," says the petition in its favor - has spent thirty-seven years behind bars. Now it is releasable in 2032, at the age of 78 years."The prison has no function to dehumanize people it holds," insists this text reminds El Shennawy "has lived nineteen years in solitary confinement in a psychiatric hospital six (was never diagnosed no dementia at home) and forty times changed place of detention. " Prison in Poissy (Yvelines), held that the astonishing tenacity, supported by an infallible wife, arrived "at the end of its resources," describes his lawyer, Virginia Bianchi.In recent months, while growing despair of his client engaged in a long hunger strike, counsel had multiplied procedures, including obtaining judges a few years of confusion sentence. Another application lodged in early December to consider parole was not successful. December 12, El Shennawy tried to end his life. "We went from the need to give meaning to the sentence than to give meaning to his life, 'says Mr. Bianchi. Clemency is then deposited. The Elysee acknowledge receipt on December 19.The act of El Shennawy galvanized (...) Read more about LeParisien.frColmar: three detainees have made the belleNanterre: he sets fire to ... voitureNord its own: a septuagenarian password Eve enclosed in a supermarchéLe Olympic champion Mo Farah mistaken for a terrorist to USAPau: two aftershocks of the earthquake on Monday

A UMP, everything remains to faire

Le harder begins to Jean-Francois Cope and François Fillon. The two rivals must now pass the lab to pick up the pieces of their party.

Jean-Francois Cope and François Fillon nice to have buried the hatchet, there is still much to do before proclaiming the direction paix.Une redial. Cope and Fillon will meet tomorrow to discuss. It retains the title of president, but he has already announced that it will open the leadership of the UMP: the fillonistes Laurent Wauquiez and Valérie Pécresse join Luc Chatel and Michele Tabarot as Vice President and Corporate Secretary delegated. The rest of the organization will also be expanded with duos each strategic position (federations, elections, membership ...). A real Mexican army in perspective! But Fillon wants the opposite team strengthened with a true sharing of responsibility and transparency in party finances. This last point may be debated, because the statutes of the UMP can not split the treasurer, it is argued in Cope ... The subject is sensitive. The UMP is indeed indebted, and the threat of invalidation of campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy alone could weigh slate of some € 10 million. "Whatever the next president of the UMP, it will have no leeway, says a former minister. It will reduce the lifestyle and permanent dismissal from 30 to 40. "For Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the question of the sale of the Parisian headquarters pose.Un to organize new elections. This is the next step, and it also promises to be complicated. Cope and Fillon have agreed to a new election of the President of the UMP held in September. Reform statutes must set the rules, as well as the primary designate in the 2016 presidential candidate. Xavier Bertrand, who must see this week Fillon and Cope, will be a member of the (...) Read more about LeParisien.frUMP: Raffarin launches seven challenges in 2013 Juppé: Cope "had the best profile" to lead UMPJuppé : Cope "had the best profile" to lead UMPMariage gay: AHR could be decoupled from the constitutional loiConseil: Holland wants more ex-presidents

Remember this speech Bashar al-Assad

Bachar al-Assad gave his first speech since seven months, Sunday, January 6, while the civil war in the country has more than 60,000 deaths, according to the UN. Faced with opposition increasingly vigorous international community and increasingly strong, the dictator tries to impose its conditions for conflict resolution. To reconcile his hold on power and a return to peace, the President did not hesitate to reverse the roles of all actors présence.

Les revolutionary, "a criminal gang"

Le Syrian President drew its own balance of political forces in the country. According to him, the conflict is not between "the government and the opposition, but the country and its enemies, the people and their assassins," adding that some wanted the partition of Syria. Under these conditions, the opposition can not be recognized as a legitimate interlocutor, judge says. "Is it a revolution and revolutionaries are they? They're a bunch of criminals," he said, referring to the rebels who drove his troops to large areas of the north and east.

L'extérieur is the guerre

Le lack of legitimacy of the Syrian opponents would especially their links with foreign countries, according to Assad. Criticizing the term "revolution" used by his opponents, the Syrian president calls for "people's revolution, not a revolution imported from abroad for the good of the people and not against its interests." According to him, the enemy is not outside but inside. "Can we talk to gangs who take their orders from abroad? (...) We talk with the masters, not with slaves," joked Bashar al-Assad. (...) Read more about

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A Shiite cleric is attacking the army pakistanaise

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Shia community has strongly questioned Friday the powerful chief of the Pakistani army in the wake of a wave of attacks that has made 126 morts.

It is rare that anyone who dares criticize General Ashfaq Kayani in Pakistan, where the army has a considerable influence on state affairs .

Criticism Friday by Shi'ite illustrate their growing frustration with regard to the failure of the authorities to contain extremists sunnites.

"I ask the army chief: what did you do those three extra years you got (to you)? What have you brought if not more deaths?" Has Maulana Amin Shaheedi said, head of the National Council of Shia organizations in Pakistan, during a conference presse.

Most deaths Thursday were caused by a double attack against the Hazara Shia community in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, near the border afghane.

The indignation of Shi'ite is such that they have asked the army to take control of Quetta to protect their community, minority and regularly taken to cible.

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They also warned that they would not allow the burial of 93 victims of the double attack Shiites until their demands were not met. Maulana Amin Shaheedi said that many corpses still lay on the floor. "They will not be buried until the army will not be entered in Quetta," he dit.

According to Muslim tradition, the dead must be buried as quickly as possible and to prevent the bodies are buried is a strong sign of pain and colère.

violence against Shiites in Pakistan and amplify some of them live in neighborhoods under siege, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). "Last year was the deadliest for Shiites, in living memory," said Ali Dayan Hasan, of Human Rights Watch. "More than 400 of them were killed, and if yesterday's attacks are an indication, it is getting worse."

The double attack in Quetta was claimed by Lashkar-e-Jangvi (LeJ). This organization is banned Sunni historically linked to elements within the Pakistani security forces, who see it as a potential ally in case of conflict with India. She wants to establish a theocracy Sunni-Shiite violence maintaining Sunnis. The Pakistani security services deny any connection with the LeJ.

"The LeJ is on one front or the other and activists come and go openly shouting" infidel, infidel, infidel Shia "or" dead Shiites "in the streets of Quetta and before our mosques," said Syed Dawwod Agha, a senior Shiite Baloutchistan.

Conference

"We have become a community of gravediggers. We are so accustomed to death that we still shrouds reserve," he ajouté.

Thursday, another bomb had killed 11 people on the main market of Quetta. It has been claimed by the Baluchi Army unie.

An attack in Mingora, the main town in the Swat valley in the northwest, had 22 morts.

Gul Yousufzai with Katharine Houreld Islamabad, Jean-Stéphane Brosse, and Hélène Bertrand Boucey Duvigneau for the French service, edited by Danielle Rouquié

MALI. Update on the military intervention in Mali

SUR FIELD MILITAIRE

The bombing Diabali

> France and strengthens its dispositif

-French forces bombed the morning of Tuesday, January 15 Diabali locality in western Mali, taken yesterday by the fighters islamistes.

-At the same time, France announced the deployment of 2,500 troops forward. A column of forty French armored vehicles from Côte d'Ivoire arrived in the night of Monday to Tuesday Bamako.

SUR FIELD DIPLOMATIQUE

> Meeting of Heads of Staff ouest-africains

-Chiefs of Staff in West Africa gathered in Bamako to prepare for the "liberation" of northern Mali.

-France has informed its partners in the Security Council on the progress of its intervention in Mali and obtained their support in principle although some question the following événements.

-François Hollande, arrived Tuesday morning in the UAE, Dubai has been mentioned the possibility of a "military aid" from pays.

IN FRANCE

> Mamère assumes a "dissenting voice"

Green MP

Le Christmas Mamère called "propaganda" the reasons given by the government to engage, assuming a "dissenting voice" .

I hear the propaganda, I mean what is said by the military, "he said in the corridors of the Assembly." Soldiers simply repeat what they are told at the highest level. "

-A National Assembly each parliamentary group has asked a question about the French intervention at the meeting of current issues in government. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Assembly, (...)

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Trailer: "40 years: user manual" by Judd Apatow

Après "40 Year Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up Job" here "40 years: user manual!" March 13, Judd Apatow in theaters unveil the third part of the Hexagon his false saga which has already amassed $ 396.4 million in revenue worldwide. This new episode is supported by Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox and John Lithgow and already showing $ 37.1 million in revenue in the territory américain.

Marié years, Pete was the only man of the house he lives surrounded by his wife Debbie and daughters Charlotte and Sadie, aged 8 and 13 years. While his independent label is struggling with Debbie, they must find ways to let go and enjoy the rest of their lives ... before killing. Find this item on PuremediasBande Trailer: 40 years: user manual Judd ApatowAudiences: TF1 leader, a record for New Star, France 2 ahead M6Quentin Tarantino filming a spin-off of Inglourious BasterdsSkyfall pass the billion dollars recettesBonne years 2013!

Imminent military deployment of ECOWAS to Mali

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) will begin here Monday in Mali's military deployment in the mission set up to drive the Islamists take the north, announced Ali Coulibaly, Ivorian Minister of Integration .

"The deployment order was signed yesterday by President (...) no later than Monday, troops will be there or start to happen," he said samedi.

The head of the Ivorian Ouattara currently holds the rotating presidency of the Cédéao.

The Malian army, which received air support Friday of the French forces, announced in the evening having taken the strategic Konna locality, city center had fallen into the hands of the day islamistes.

Ecowas pleaded for months for international intervention against the fighters of Ansar Dine and the Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

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associated with separatist Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), they took advantage of the confusion following the coup d'état of March in Bamako to capture all of Northern Mali desert .

The Security Council of the UN endorsed the intervention of an international force to hunt them, but because of logistical constraints in particular, no African force seemed able to deploy before septembre.< / p>After

Konna, the rebels threatened Sévaré last lock before Mopti on the strategic road Bamako.

"Things have accelerated (...) It is not only to protect Sévaré. We must take the north (Mali) jihadists," said Saturday the Ivorian Minister of Integration, that " began the reconquest ".

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