Broadchurch reaches its gripping conclusion tonight in the final episode on OnDIRECTV across Latin America. David Tennant and Olivia Colman star as the police detactives hunting the killer of a young boy in a small English town.
Broadchurch (E8) OnDIRECTV
Todas las pistas apuntan hacia la misma persona y el enemigo esta acorralado. Un impactante final de serie
All clues point to the same person and the enemy is cornered. A shocking series finale
Episode 7 of the award winning UKdrama Broadchurch will premiere on OnDIRECTV across Latin Americatoday. David Tennant and Olivia Colman star as two police officers trying to solve the mystery of the murder of a schoolboy in a small seaside town.
Broadchurch - Episode 7
La serie se acerca a su fin y el caso podría cerrarse, pero todavía hay varios sospechosos, mentiras y poca paciencia pero el asesino de Danny pagará las consecuencias..
As the series comes to an end and the case could, but there are several suspects, many lies and patience is running thin, however Danny’s killer will pay the consequences.
Episode 6 of crime drama Broadchurch will premiere on OnDIRECTV across Latin America today. The series stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman as two police officers trying to solve the mystery of the murder of a schoolboy in a small seaside town. Broadchurch - Episode 6
Los enemigos se encuentran bajo el mismo techo y los secretos más ocultos saldrán a la luz.
Enemies are under the same roof and hidden secrets come to life
Viewers in Latin America can watch episode 5 of Broadchurch today. The award winning drama stars David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Arthur Darvill and follows the investigation into the murder of a child
Broadchurch (E5) - OnDIRECTV
El pueblo culpa a Jack de la muerte de Danny, pero todavía el caso no está resuelto y hay muchas dudas en el aire.
The town blames Jack for Danny's death, but the case is not yet resolved and there are still many doubts up in the air.
Viewers in Latin America will be able to watch episode 4 of Broadchurch on OnDIRECTV tonight, The series stars David Tennant, Olivia Colman and Arthur Darvill and follows the events in a small town in England after a young boy is found dead on the beach.
Broadchurch
Episodio 4 - OnDIRECTV
En la búsqueda del asesino del Danny la paranoia se apodera delpueblo y cualquiera puede ser el enemigo.
Broadchurch
Episode 4 – OnDIRECTV
In the hunt for Danny’s murderer paranoia takes over the town and anyone can be the enemy.
Watch at the following times
Columbia, Ecuador, Peru 19.00
Venezuela 19.30
Argentina, Chile 21.00 Other countries should check their local TV listings guide Watch a trailer for the new episode here:
Viewers across Latin America can watch episode 3 of Broadchurch on OnDIRECTV tonight. The series stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman as the two police detectives trying to solve the murder of a boy in a small town. Broadchurch (3/8)
Columbia, Ecuador, Peru 19.00
Venezuela 19.30
Argentina, Chile 21.00
La búsqueda por el culpable de la muerte de Danny no se detiene y nadie se escapará delpeso de la ley.
The search for the culprit in Danny's murder does not stop and no-one will escape from the weight of the law
Viewers in a number of Latin American countries can watch episode 2 of Broadchurch tonight. The award winning series from the UK is now showing on OnDirecTV.
Broadchurch
El asesinato de un niño de once años en una pequeña ciudad costera trae un frenesí de medios, que amenaza con romper la pza de la comunidad. Con David Tennant e Olivia Colman
The murder of an eleven year old boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy that threatens to shatter the peaceful community. With David Tennant and Olivia Colman
Times are as follows:
Columbia, Ecuador, Peru 19.00
Venezuela 19.30
Argentina, Chile 21.00
Other areas should check their local listings guide
A further six international broadcasters have picked up the first series of Broadchurch. Channel One (Russia), France 2, NRK (Norway), OnDirecTV (Latin America), ProSiebenSat.1 Media (Germany) and TV4 (Sweden) have all taken up the drama from distributor Shine International. The 8 part drama, produced by Shine Group’s Kudos Film & Television, tells the story of how a small seaside town and it's community cope with the murder of an 11 year old boy and how they deal with the police investigation and press intrusion that follows. So far Broadchurch been sold to 32 territories worldwide, including ABC in Australia and BBC America, where the series premieres tonight at 10pm / 9c. It has also secured it's own US remake, to be produced by Shine America for US network Fox. Creator and writer Chris Chibnall will be executive producer for the adaptation and will write the first episode for the series, which will be set in a seaside town in the USA and is expected to air in 2014/15. A second series of the UK version, which stars David Tennant and Olivia Coleman is also in the works, though work on it is top secret and casting has not been confirmed. Source: C21 Media
Could Joran van der Sloot possibly get the death penalty in Peru for the murder of Stephany Flores? The answer is quite simply, no.
While Peru is one of nine countries in the world that does have the death penalty, it has many limitations. Peruvian law reads something to the effect that the death penalty may be considered, but only for crimes "committed in exceptional circumstances". This means that only crimes that are committed in times of war or genocide or crimes under military law can be considered as death penalty cases.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia wanted to introduce the death penalty into law in 2007, for terrorists, but even that bill was rejected. A poll taken in '07 determined that more than 70% of Peruvians were in favor of instituting a death penalty in their country.
Murder is considered a fairly ordinary crime in Peru, so that won't even be a consideration in the case of Joran van der Sloot. It is almost incomprehensible that he was never tried for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Now he has confessed to murdering Stephany Flores. Speculation has him serving only 15-35 years at the most. The Peruvian system is actually designed so that criminals who confess will be given more lenient sentences by the judge.
See video below that talks about the lack of the death penalty in Peru, and what speculation says about van der Sloot's possible sentence.
Joran van der Sloot Confesses To Murder, Will Get 15-35 Years “At The Most”
Joran van der Sloot could be formally charged as early as Tuesday in the killing of Stephany Flores Ramirez, Peruvian government authorities said.
The government authorities said Van der Sloot confessed to murder late Monday. He will likely be held at one of three maximum security prisons — Castro Castro, Piedras Gordas and Lurigancho, authorities said.
Efforts by CNN to contact van der Sloot’s attorney were not immediately successful. At his first court appearance, the judge may set a hearing date for van der Sloot and could order additional investigations in the case. The Peruvian justice system often issues a lighter sentence in cases where the suspect confesses. That may have influenced his alleged confession. Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. There is no death penalty or life sentence in Peru.
A Peruvian police report leaked Monday said Flores was found in his hotel room on the floor, half-dressed. The report provides new details about the hours before Flores’ body was found. Van der Sloot, who was twice arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.
Wow since there’s no death penalty or life sentence in Peru, they need to lock that boy up under the prison or something.
Source: CNN.com, June 8, 2010
Police say Van der Sloot confessed
LIMA, Peru | Joran Van der Sloot (left) — long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba — has confessed to killing a Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room, police said Tuesday.
Officials said plans are in place to take Van der Sloot to the hotel where the 21-year-old business student was killed on May 30.
Officials also said Tuesday that police have until the weekend to file charges against the Dutchman for the May 30 killing of Stephany Flores.
The beating death occurred exactly five years after Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old American, disappeared in Aruba — an assumed death in which Van der Sloot has been considered the prime suspect by authorities on the Dutch island in the Caribbean.
It wasn’t clear if Van der Sloot was represented by an attorney in Peru, and there was no comment from him or his family about the reported confession.
Peru’s chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press late Monday that Van der Sloot confessed earlier in the day.
Several Peruvian media outlets reported, without identifying their sources, that he admitted killing Flores in a rage after learning she looked up information about his past on his laptop without permission.
La Republica said Van der Sloot tearfully confessed, in the presence of a prosecutor and a state-appointed attorney, to grabbing Flores by the neck and hitting her because she had viewed images about the Aruba case on his computer while he was out buying coffee.
Gamarra, senior police officials and prosecutors would not provide details of the alleged confession, which came on Van der Sloot’s third full day in Peruvian custody.
Meanwhile, the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant quoted the suspect’s lawyer in the Netherlands as suggesting the confession may have been coerced.
“Joran told his mother crying Monday that he was being interrogated under reasonably barbaric conditions,” the paper quoted Bert De Rooij saying. “He said the police were trying to force him to confess.”
Under such conditions, he said, the “confession was possibly false.”
Officials at the Dutch Embassy, who said the suspect’s family was attempting to obtain private counsel for Van der Sloot, could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Flores, the daughter of a Peruvian circus impresario and former race car driver, was found beaten to death, her neck broken, in the 22-year-old Dutchman’s hotel room. Police said the two met playing poker at a casino.
An Indian community that sentenced a young man to death by hanging for the murder of another man softened his punishment Sunday, ordering him to do five years of community service instead.
Orlando Quishpe, 21, was also subjected to punishments that included carrying a heavy sack of dirt, an ice-water bath and a public whipping with a thorny plant while he was forced to beg forgiveness.
Ecuador's attorney general had threatened legal action against the community after it ordered Quishpe's execution last week, because the South American nation does not allow the death penalty.
The Indians refused the government's request that the suspect be handed over to the regular courts. Ecuador's constitution recognizes indigenous justice as long as it does not violate the charter or human rights.
An assembly of residents in La Cocha, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) from the capital, debated for 6 hours Sunday and dropped the death penalty.
They decided Quishpe will carry out "5 years of work in the field," community leader Ricardo Chaluisa told reporters. He said the work would be supervised by members of Quishpe's home community, Guantopolo.
Before he was turned over to leaders from Guantopolo, Quishpe, who works as a carpenter and is in a rock band, underwent a day of punishment.
Nearly naked, he first was made to hold a sack of dirt for 10 minutes. Tied to a whipping post, he was doused in an icy bath and beaten with nettles while he apologized to the townspeople – although he denied any guilt in the slaying of Marco Olivo, 21.
Olivo was beaten and then hanged with a belt on May 9. Town leaders accused Quishpe of using his belt in the killing. No motive for the attack has been released.
4 other young men underwent a day of punishment for the crime a week ago. The community said they confessed to participating in the attack.
Human rights abuses and repression increased in Iran and China last year, while South American countries made strides in punishing former dictators, Amnesty International said in its annual report.
"The situation in Iran is critical," Claudio Cordone, interim secretary general of the London-based human rights group said in a telephone interview. "In China, we saw many attempts to repress free speech and block the Internet."
Amnesty found evidence of torture or other types of mistreatment in 111 of 159 countries surveyed. There were unfair trials in 55 countries, freedom-of-speech restrictions in 96, and political prisoners in 48 countries. It also highlighted delays to the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. U.S. President Barack Obama had promised to shut it within one year of taking office.
"Unfortunately, progress in the U.S. has not been as fast nor as deep as we hoped," said Cordone. "There's been no accountability, and there are still military tribunals, which we don't feel allow for a fair trial."
While 2009 was a "landmark" year that saw the International Criminal Court indict its first head of state, many national governments continue to block attempts by international courts and organizations to pursue human rights abuses, Amnesty said in the report, published today.
"Powerful governments are blocking advances in international justice by standing above the law on human rights, shielding allies from criticism and acting only when politically convenient," it said.
War Crimes
The African Union refused to cooperate with The Hague-based ICC after it indicted Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir, Amnesty said. It also said the United Nations' Human Rights Council took little action while Sri Lanka's army and Tamil militants both committed potential war crimes, and Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas never followed up a UN report that accused both sides of human rights abuses during their January 2009 war.
"Impunity for U.S. violations related to counter-terrorism continued," it added.
Political repression increased notably in Iran after contested elections, but also in Tunisia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and China, Amnesty's report said.
Latin America
The main advances during the year were in Latin America, where countries including Argentina, Uruguay and Peru pursued past leaders for human rights abuses.
Amnesty also praised the new Japanese government for suspending capital punishment and starting a national debate about the death penalty, and it noted that South Africa and Botswana refused to follow the African Union's repudiation of the ICC after Bashir's indictment.
It noted that 7 members of the G-20 group of leading nations -- the U.S., China, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, India and Indonesia -- haven't joined the ICC.
"If you belong to this exclusive club of leading countries, then you should prove that you are helping to close the justice gap," Cordone said.
March 14, 2008: Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed a bill that would have reinstated capital punishment and given the president the power to commute death penalty sentences.
There are 34 prisoners in limbo on death row after a high court in 2002 suspended executions, ruling that presidential reprieves on death penalty cases were unconstitutional.
The vetoed measure, approved overwhelmingly in February by lawmakers, would have given Colom the authority to decide whether the prisoners in question are executed by lethal injection or have their sentences commuted to the maximum 50 years in prison.
"If (the death penalty) were a disincentive, we would reinstate it," Colom said. "But we have studied cases in various states in the United States, and it doesn't dissuade" crime. The Catholic Church and European embassies openly opposed the law, saying it would violate human rights. Colom said "strengthening security institutions" is the best way to fight crime in Central America's most violent country, where gangs are rampant and as few as 2 percent of more than 5,000 homicides a year are solved.
