Government imposes night curfew

Since this evening there is a night curfew in the Besopotamian capital Kalaah. This morning Youssef Ben Despoti said in a government statement that he would not stand by and watch the cruel terrorist acts in the country but wanted to protect his people from the terrorists. This way the President is reacting to the unfortunate abduction of his son, but also to the countless peaceful protests, as most recently during the ground breaking for the construction of his new government palace. According to internal sources  following the deaths of two politicians of the PFD the government fears a strengthening and an escalation of the protest movement. The extention of the curfew to total Besopotamia  is still under consideration.

Poverty in rural areas of Besopotamia

School #3 in the village Khutan

Who wants to see a more realistic picture of life of Besopotamians, and not only the beautiful palaces and  wonderful architecture of their capital city Kalaah should take a bus and travel to some nearby village. It should be mentioned that the majority of the Besopota's population (about 70 percent) lives in rural areas. Villagers are struggling with survival, here they have especially hard. Enjoying great unemployment, food shortages and lack of electricity in the winter. Buildings of local hospitals and schools are in very poor conditions. Not every resident of the village can provide their children with education at schools and universities because  of bad financial situation in families. An acute shortage of professional staff at schools, hospitals, in local administrations is evident and leads the country into a bigger chaos.

PFD and regional NGOs call UN Secretary-General for help

Saffron News received a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. We consider it our duty to publish this letter at this point in its full wording:

Dear Secretary-General,

the besopotamian Party of Freedom and Democracy as well as the regional NGOs Mothers of Peace and Sout Al-Horiah (Voice of Freedom) would like to draw your kind attention toward massive human rights violation in Besopotamia.

For decades the besopotamian people have suffered from serious violations of their individual and collective human rights. Every day they have to bear with various forms of repression, including imprisonment after unfair trials, beatings, arbitrary restrictions on the women´s human rights such as freedom of movement, child custody and divorce, and denial of the right to peaceful assembly, association, and freedom of expression. Since 2009 more than 250 Human Rights Defenders including lawyers, journalist and intellectuals have been arrested just because of practicing their job.  Up to the present day peacefully demonstrating people are faced with violation from government supporters and police. Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have long reported on these human rights violations.

But as the social and economic in our country is getting even worse, democratic opposition grows. But facing the increasing numbers of demonstrators the governments suppressions reach an unbearable level. We write to urge your support at the UN Security Council for the establishment of a UN mechanism that would monitor and report on human rights in Besopotamia to protect and respect Human rights and prevent the violation and bring the peace, freedom and Democracy in the region.

We thank you for your consideration of our request.

Yours faithfully

Party of Freedom and Democracy

Mothers of Peace

Sout Al-Horiah

Imprisoned opposition politicians are dead

As a spokesman of the prison Abu M. announced the members of the Freedom and Democracy Party which had been arrested at the beginning of May died a natural death. According to informants, the two politicians who are called by the government as “dangerous terrorists” had already died early last week. Critics, however, assume that Bassaf and Husain were executed or tortured to death.

Groundbreaking Ceremony for new Presidential Palace

In the Besopotamian capital Kalaah yesterday afternoon, the construction of the new Presidential Palace started. This palace, said President Youssef Ben Despoti in his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony will be a sign of the noble power of the country, which will be intimidated neither by Israel nor by the US government. Several demonstrations against the construction of the 13 billion-dollar residence, which took place on the edge of the celebrations were violently dispersed by the military. Up to now, Saffron Report has not yet received any information on arrests or casualties.