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Tag: police brutality
France: Act 12 rallies in face of repression
After months of clashes, “Act 12” of the main Gilet Jaunes (yellow vest) marches today is setting itself squarely against police and fa…
Event invitation: From London to Ferrara: together in solidarity against police brutality
This September, we witnessed the Supreme Court reject Mark Duggan’s family’s request to appeal the 2014 ruling that stated that his mur…
Indonesia: hundreds of Papuans arrested over self-determination rally plan
Indonesian police and military troops arrested hundreds of Papuans on Monday in order to prevent them protesting in demand of the release of politi…
Fortress Europe: illegal push-backs and border violence report
This harrowing report presents testimonies of refugee people attempting to reach the safety of Europe from Bosnia into Croatia and Slovenia.
Turkish police teargas pride march in Instanbul
Riot police used tear gas, dogs and batons to disperse thousands of people attending the LGBTI+ pride march in Istanbul today.
Spain: A Insumisa social centre evicted
Last Wednesday, the municipal police have evicted the A Insumisa social centre in Galician city A Coruña.
Brutality of France’s police has precedent
This article was originally written for Harz Labour, a journal published by comrades involved in autonomous struggles in the West of France.
Spray and affray as Paris police spark riot with fire hydrant arrest
The police version of events is as follows: at 6.20pm on Camille Groult street in the south-eastern Paris suburb of Vitry cops want to collar a per…
Italy: A personal experience of enforced DNA sampling
For more than a year now forcibly collected DNA sampling has been used by Italian police in the ritual of identification for anybody they arrest…
GMB calls for police crackdown against anti-frack activists
Pro-fracking service union GMB has written to politicians urging them to ensure that police take a harder line against protesters so that frack com…
France: Hundreds rally against police violence as Senate offers officers near-total immunity
As people poured onto the streets of cities including Paris, Nantes and Rennes last night to demand justice for Theo, a 22-year-old social worker …
Arrests and tear gas as South African students protest for fee-free education
Organisers with the South African Fees Must Fall student movement are reporting police brutality and dozens of arrests at today’s March to P…
Whose University? Police brutality used during a peaceful protest at Warwick Uni.
On Wednesday 3rd December, students making up the contingent of Warwick For Free Education (@warwickfreeed) amassed a crowd of 30-40 students outsi…
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