Tag Archives: police

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Two Canadian journalists arrested in Turkey as lawyers storm out of courthouses in support of protests

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…

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Turkish police storm Taksim Square

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…

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Prisoner abuse video shown at WA hearing

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…

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Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers

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”…

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Pirate Bay Founder Now Wanted by Denmark

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…

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Justices say police can take DNA upon arrest

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…

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Human rights activist Ethem Sarısülük allegedly killed by police during the protests in Ankara

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…

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Stubby holders mocking Sudanese migrants distributed among police in Sunshine in Melbourne’s west

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…

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The last tree or the final straw?

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…

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Disgraceful Use of Excessive Police Force in Istanbul

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…

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US police dogs not smelling marijuana anymore

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…