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3 mins ago
FBI offers reward for information on a 40-year-old kidnapping in Florida
By Amanda Jackson
This is an FBI image released for search purposes of Maribel Oquendo-Guerrero. (Credit: FBI)
On December 6, 1982, Maribel Oquendo-Carrero left her home in Homestead, Florida, to walk to the corner store, according to FBI Miami.
The 9-year-old came to the store and bought a few items, according to the FBI, but was never seen or heard from again.
On the 40th anniversary of his disappearance, the FBI Miami announced a reward of up to US$10,000 for information leading to the recovery of Oquendo-Carrero—who would be 49 today—or to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for his disappearance.
Clarabel Garay, Oquendo-Carrero's older sister who was 17 years old at the time of her disappearance, has continued the search to find any clue as to what might have happened to her sister.
Last year, Garay spoke to the Miami Herald:
“I hope she's alive, but we don't know that.
There is nothing to prove that she is alive.
There is nothing to prove that she is dead,” Garay said.
"I miss her.
I miss her smile, her eyes, her joy.
I sing her, her dance and her game ”.
An age progression image of what she might have looked like at 47 years old was also posted.
Maribel was born in Camden, New Jersey and has ties to Puerto Rico, Florida and New York, according to the FBI.
8 mins ago
Utility substations in Oregon and Washington were attacked in November
By Raja Razek
At least five power substations in Oregon and Washington were attacked in November, according to power companies in those states.
A Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) spokesperson told CNN in an email that a company substation was damaged in Clackamas, Oregon, over the Thanksgiving holiday in what the BPA calls a "deliberate physical attack." ”.
"BPA operators discovered a breached perimeter fence and damaged equipment inside," the spokesman said.
The company is working with the FBI on the incident.
In a separate email to CNN, a spokesperson for Washington-based Puget Sound Energy said the company experienced two attacks in November on electrical substations.
"We are aware of the recent threats to power systems across the country and take them very seriously. We are monitoring our infrastructure and can confirm that two incidents occurred in late November at two different substations," the Puget Sound statement said. Energy: "Both incidents are currently being investigated by the FBI."
Puget Sound Energy did not specify the location of the incidents.
The utility provides service primarily in the Puget Sound region of western Washington.
And two Cowlitz County Public Service District substations were vandalized in mid-November in the Woodland area, company spokeswoman Alice Dietz told the Seattle Times in writing.
“At this time, we have no further comment…Since then, our facility has been repaired,” Dietz tells the Times.
Cowlitz County is located in southwestern Washington state along the Oregon border,
CNN has contacted the FBI's Seattle office for comment.
12 mins ago
Iran carries out its first known protest-related execution
By Adam Pourahmadi and Teele Rebane
Iran executed a protester involved in demonstrations that have swept the country since September after he was found guilty of wounding a Basij member, reported Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with Iran's judiciary, and the semi-official Tasmin news agency.
Both outlets named the protester as Mohsen Shekari and said he was executed by hanging on Thursday morning.
It is the first known execution in connection with the 2022 protests that has been publicly reported by state media.
Shekari was found guilty of “making war against God” for stabbing a member of the Basij paramilitary force at a protest in Tehran on September 23.
He was sentenced to death on October 23, according to Mizan Online.
Several Iranians have been sentenced to death by execution during nationwide protests, which were sparked by the case of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by state morality police for allegedly not wearing the hijab. correctly.
CNN cannot independently verify the number of people facing execution in Iran, or the latest arrest figures or death tolls related to the protests;
the precise figures are impossible for anyone outside the Iranian government to confirm.
According to Amnesty International, in November, the Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 21 people in connection with recent protests.
17 mins ago
The Taliban carry out the first public execution of a man accused of murder since they took power
By Sahar Akbarzai
Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in Kabul on November 5, 2022. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
The Taliban carried out its first public execution on Wednesday against a man accused of murder, according to a statement by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
This is the first public execution by the Taliban since they took power in 2021.
According to the statement, the man was charged with murdering another man in 2017 with a knife and then stealing his cell phone and bicycle.
The accused man was executed in Afghanistan's southwestern Farah province, according to the statement.
The victim was a resident of Gang village in Farah province.
The Taliban added that the victim's father carried out the execution by shooting him three times.
"This issue was examined very carefully and repeatedly by the three courts (primary, appellate and higher) of the Islamic Emirate, and each court issued and confirmed a retribution judgment against him," the statement said.
After the court's ruling, Afghanistan's Supreme Leader Alaiqadar Amirul Momineen reviewed the case for final approval, with "outstanding caution and (with) a large group of academics," the statement said.
"There was a general discussion about it, which finally issued the order to implement the Sharia retribution ruling on the murderer," he added.
“They approached us several times asking us to forgive this murderer, but we said no.
We said that if we spared him and released him, he would go out and kill someone else's child.
We wanted his punishment to be death so that he can be a lesson to others like him," the victim's mother said Wednesday in an interview with RTA Pashto, Afghanistan's state media agency.
The mother's name was not mentioned in the interview.
When the Taliban were last in power between 1996 and 2001, public executions were common, along with other violent punishments for people accused of crimes.
Senior Taliban officials were also present at the execution, including Afghanistan's acting chief justice, deputy prime minister, acting interior minister, deputy governor Farah and Taliban spokesman, among other officials, according to the statement.
The victim's family first identified the killer and reported him to the Taliban authorities in Farah.
After the Taliban arrested the man, he admitted that he was guilty, according to the Taliban.
"The UN strongly opposes the death penalty in all circumstances and calls on the de facto authorities to establish an immediate moratorium with a view to abolishing the death penalty," the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a statement. Twitter post
Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at UCLA and one of the world's leading authorities on sharia law, told CNN in November that within the 1,400-year tradition of sharia, punishments such as public executions they were rarely implemented because most Islamic jurists throughout history did not interpret the law as the Taliban do today.
