By news.nationalpost.com Turkey — Two Canadian journalists were detained by police Wednesday while covering the ongoing protests in Istanbul. Sasa Petricic and Derek Stoffel, who work for CBC, have made contact…
By aljazeera.com Hundreds of Turkish police have stormed Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the site of ongoing demostrations against the government. Reuters news agency quoted witnesses as saying on Tuesday that police, backed…
By sbs.com.au CCTV footage appearing to show a senior constable physically abusing two detainees at the Broome watch-house has been shown at a public hearing. Footage of a police officer repeatedly…
By wired.com Here’s a seemingly comforting statistic: In all of 2012, the Obama administration went to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court only 200 times to ask for Americans’ “business records”…
By torrentfreak.com This week the trial of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm concluded in Sweden, but before the verdict is announced more trouble awaits the 28-year-old. Authorities have revealed that Denmark…
By chicagotribune.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a major victory for law enforcement agencies, a divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police can take a DNA sample from someone who has…
2x Turkish reports of incident. Translated by Google. By birgun.net Police belt and pulled a gun, gun set up, took aim, pressed the trigger, the gun put around his waist. He died…
By news.com.au UPDATE: POLICE have been accused of poisoning African youth against authority after officers in the west were caught out using racist stubby holders. The officers in Melbourne’s west have…
By greenpeace.org Our office in Istanbul has been under siege. It is in the heart Taksim, an area in which a brutal police clampdown has been trying to end the peaceful…
By amnesty.org Urgent steps must be taken by the Turkish authorities to prevent further deaths and injuries and allow protestors access to their fundamental rights , as well as ensuring the…
By nzherald.co.nz The newest drug-sniffing dog on the police force in one US city is not trained to point out the presence of marijuana. Other police departments in the area are…
