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More than 240 detained in annual Montreal protest
Authorities in the Canadian city of Montreal said they briefly detained more than 240 people and arrested a dozen for more serious offences during a protest against police brutality late Friday. Two officers were hurt in the annual event that usually results in violence. As a helicopter hovered overhead, hundreds…
Polls open in Kenyan elections after gun attacks
Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn as polls opened Monday for hard-fought elections, hours after several policemen were killed in an ambush in the port city of Mombasa. The elections are the first since bloody post-poll violence five years ago in which over 1,100 people were killed,…
Thousands of police march in Spain austerity protest
About 5,000 police officers marched through the centre of Madrid on Saturday to protest salary cuts and the thinning of their ranks as Spain grapples with its sovereign debt crisis. The officers, who had travelled from across Spain. rallied three days after the nation was gripped by a general strike…
Gay Jamaican beaten by police sues home country
Gareth Henry hit the international headlines in his native Jamaica four years ago when he was beaten by policemen in front of a mob of 200 people who cornered him in a Kingston pharmacy. A year later, in 2008, the head of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All Sexuals and…
Student protest in Mexico turns violent, 176 arrested
MORELIA, Mexico — Mexican students protesting a new curriculum threw homemade explosives, fired rockets and hurled stones at police in a melee that left 176 arrested and 10 police officers injured, officials said. The protesting students are preparing to become teachers in rural areas, and they are angry because the…
NYPD officers stop-and-frisk black teen for being ‘a f*cking mutt’
New York Police Department officers berated a young African-American man named Alvin during a so-called stop-and-frisk in 2011, an audio recording obtained by The Nation revealed. In the clip, the officers tell Alvin that he is being stopped because he kept looking at them with his hood up. As he…
Florida police officers rescue puppy that was buried alive
Police officers in Williston, Florida have found and rescued a puppy that was buried alive. According to the Gainesville Sun, the abandoned dog is doing well and is expected to recover, but police are searching for whoever tried to kill the animal. Williston police officers were disposing of evidence in…
Fifteen wounded at Pakistan ‘Innocence of Muslims’ protest
Peshawar: At least 15 people, including three police officers, were wounded on Friday in clashes at a Pakistani protest against an anti-Islam film made in the United States, a hospital official said. A driver working for private TV station ARY was seriously wounded and hooked up to a ventilator, said…
Undocumented immigrants fear for their children as AZ ‘papers’ law takes effect
Latinos living without immigration papers in Arizona have begun bombarbing helplines and lawyers’ offices with anxious requests about how to provide for their children should they be arrested under a controversial new police power that came into effect this week. A phone line hosted by the Arizona branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has…
Bahrain police face trial over torturing medics
DUBAI — Bahrain’s public prosecution has charged seven police officers over the torture and maltreatment of Shiite medics detained in the aftermath of nationwide protests last year, authorities said on Monday. The two defendants facing the “most serious” charges have been referred to the High Criminal Court over the “use…
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