Sept. 10 Photo Brief: 44 journalists on trial in Turkey, Alcoa workers protest job cuts, unrest in Iraq
Forty-four journalists face terrorism charges in Turkey, Alcoa workers clash with police over job cuts, unrest in Iraq and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Employees of the world’s leading producer of primary aluminum Alcoa, clash with police during a demonstration outside the industry ministry in Rome on September 10, 2012. The demonstrators are protesting the closure of Portovesme and Fusina melting plants on the Italian island of Sardinia, which employ about 2,000 people. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Italian policemen attempt to stop Alcoa Inc’s workers as they protest against their dismissals from employment in front of the Ministry of Employment building in Rome September 10, 2012. (Tony Gentile/Reuters)
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- Demonstrators protest against the Alcoa Inc’s decision to close Portovesme and Fusina melting plants on the Italian island of Sardinia which employ about 2,000 people. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Director of Turkish newspaper Ozgur Gundem, Eren Keskin (C), speaks to the press as Kurdish women hold pictures of jailed journalists in Istanbul on September 10, 2012. Some 44 suspects, 36 of them arrested pending trial, are currently facing charges in the 800-page indictment that was unanimously accepted by the court in May 2012. The suspects are charged with leading a terrorist organization, being a member of a terrorist organization, and being a member of the press committee of a terrorist organization. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghanistan Air Force helicopter transporting journalists flies near the prison compound before a ceremony handing over the Bagram prison to Afghan authorities, at the U.S. airbase in Bagram, north of Kabul September 10, 2012. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
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- Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel perform a demonstration drill during a graduation ceremony at a police training center in Laghman province on September 10, 2012. NATO countries plan to pull out the bulk of their combat forces by the end of 2014 after a gradual handover to Afghan army and police. (Waseem Nikzad/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A three-year-old Iraqi child Yousef Saad lies on a hospital bed following a bomb attack the previous night in Baghdad’s mainly Shiite Shula district, on September 10, 2012. A wave of more than 30 attacks across Iraq killed 88 people and wounded more than 400 on Saturday and Sunday, with security forces and marketplaces among the targets. (Ali Al-Saadiali/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A severely wounded fighter with the Free Syria Army (FSA), who later died from his wounds, is transfered to a hospital during heavy fighting against government forces in Izza neighbourhood of the embattled northern city of Aleppo on September 8, 2012. (Zac Baillie/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An abandoned pet tortoise walks on the debris of a damaged house in the neighbourhood of old Homs September 9, 2012. (Yazen Homsy/Reuters)
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- Thousands of South African mine workers walk on September 10, 2012 to the Lonmin mine in Marikana to try and stop other miners from going to work. Around 15,000 workers have downed tools in South Africa at a Gold Fields mine west of Johannesburg in the latest work stoppage to hit the vital mining sector, the company said onSeptember 10. (Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Pakistani residents look at a collapsed house caused by torrential rain in Sukkur on September 10, 2012. At least 78 people have died and dozens more injured in torrential rains and flash floods that have wreaked havoc in Pakistan over the past three days, a government spokesman said Monday. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian police clash with protestors on the beach at Idinathakarai village near the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in southern Tamil Nadu on September 10, 2012. Police in a southern Indian state shot dead a fisherman and clashed with with activists who were protesting the start of work at a nuclear power plant, officials said. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian artist works on an idol of the Hindu god Biswakarma at the artisan village, known locally as Kumartoli, in Siliguri on September 10,2012. Biswakarma is the Hindu god of architecture and machinery, and will be worshipped across the country on September 17. (Diptendu Dutt/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Workers inside the nuclear power plant Leibstadt during a yearly revision, near the northern Swiss town Leibstadt September 10, 2012. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)
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- Elderly members of the Peng family sit in their makeshift shelter on September 10, 2012 after their home was badly damaged after a series of earthquakes hit Yiliang County, Yunnan Province on September 7. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on September 9, 2012 shows an elderly man riding on a toy horse in Beijing. China says its trade surplus widened to 26.7 billion USD in August as exports remained weak and imports registered a surprise decline in a further blow to the country’s slowing economy. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A policewoman with her dog guard the basement as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (not pictured) attends the 85th anniversary of the donation by John D. Rockfeller to endow the League of Nations Library on September 10, 2012 at the United Nations offices in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A supporter of Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shouts slogans as she holds a poster with an image of Tymoshenko, during a rally in front of the Higher Administrative Court in central Kiev September 10, 2012. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
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- People sit at the doorstep of their home during a power blackout in Havana September 9, 2012. A large swath of Cuba was plunged into darkness on Sunday night in a widespread power failure, the cause of which was not disclosed. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)
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- An olive ridley turtle hatchling crawls in the sand after emerging from its shell at a hatchery managed by the Kuta Beach Sea Turtle Conservation at Kuta Beach, Bali September 10, 2012. According to the conservation, more than 20,000 eggs were safely relocated to the hatchery since 2002, 80 percent of which have been successfully hatched and released to the ocean. (Desmond Ang/Reuters)
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- A white donkey foal runs around in his enclosure at the West Coast park in St. Peter-Ording, northern Germany on September 09, 2012. The young donkey was born on September 02, 2012 and named Alexis. White donkeys are a rare species. (Wolfgang Runge/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Polo players (L-R) Rob Brockett on his horse Pachu, Andy Burgess on Shriva and Major Ben Marshall on Burris practice on the beach ahead of tomorrow’s beach polo event on September 10, 2012 in Newquay, England. Several thousand people are expected to watch the Veuve Cliquot sponsored event, now in its sixth year. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
U.S. transfers Bagram prison to Afghan control
Jessica Donati and Miriam Arghandiwal | Reuters
3:10 p.m. EDT, September 10, 2012
KABUL (Reuters) – The United States handed control of the controversial giant Bagram prison and its 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates to Afghan authorities on Monday, amid concerns the transfer could leave prisoners vulnerable to further rights abuses.
Hundreds of Afghan soldiers watched as an Afghan flag was hoisted in front of the prison at the huge U.S.-run airfield north of Kabul, as part of a plan to withdraw foreign troops from combat operations in 2014.
“Today is a historical and glorious day for Afghanistan where Afghans are able to take the charge of the prison themselves,” acting Defence Minister Enayatullah Nazari told a large crowd including U.S. military officials.
But, in a move that has angered the Afghan government, the U.S. plans to keep at least one block at the prison, where any suspected Taliban fighters or terrorists captured in future raids will be held before being handed over.
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