
Brazilians protest high cost of hosting World Cup
At least 500 protesters complaining against the high cost of staging the World Cup rallied Saturday in front of the National Stadium in Brasilia just ...

2nd day of riots in Stockholm suburb shakes Sweden
Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a largely immigrant suburb of Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered ...
Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and ...
Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of ...

HRW: Sex workers in China subject to police abuse
Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in ...

Troubled South Africa debates impact of white rule
Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now ...

Ukraine urged to end rampant police abuse
Oleksandr Popov, an auto mechanic from a Ukrainian provincial city, says police beat, choked and shocked him with electricity for hours, trying to ...

Egypt steps up campaign against TV satirist
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday stepped up a campaign against a popular TV comedian accused of insulting the president, threatening to revoke the ...

AP EXCLUSIVE: Police blamed in Egypt revolt deaths
The highest-level inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt's uprising has concluded that police were behind nearly all the killings ...

Violent protests outside Cairo as protests spread
Violent protests erupted outside Egypt's capital on Saturday as activists accused police of using excessive force in two cities and running over ...

South Africa: Police charged with murder
Eight South African police officers were charged with murder on Friday for the death of a taxi driver dragged by a police vehicle, a videotaped ...

Egypt rights groups allege rising police brutality
Egyptian rights groups alleged Wednesday that police abuse and brutality are on the rise in detention centers and at demonstrations, which have ...

Kenyan government sued for police brutality
The Kenyan government is being sued for police brutality in the violence following the 2007 election. The lawsuit comes as Kenya prepares for a new ...

Egypt women protest sex assault at site of attacks
Washington's envoy on human rights cautioned Tuesday against the failure of Egypt's government to identify the perpetrators behind a growing number ...

AP Interview: Morocco Islamists warn of unrest
Morocco likes to project itself as unique in the Middle East in finding a third way between revolution and repression amid the uprisings of the Arab ...

Beating, torture fuel sense Egypt police unchanged
The video outraged Egyptians, showing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the pavement as they cracked down on protesters

Greek court orders probe of alleged police beating
A Greek prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into allegations of police brutality in the arrest of four alleged bank robbers after authorities ...

Conflicting accounts by Egypt man dragged naked
An Egyptian man who was beaten and dragged naked by riot police during a violent protest changed his story on Sunday, telling prosecutors that ...

Video of police abuse stokes anger in Egypt
Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger ...
Rights group says Egypt police behaves like 'gang'
An Egyptian rights group on Tuesday accused the country's police of "acting like a gang," torturing detainees and continuing to use violence to impose ...

Part of courthouse burnt in Egypt clashes
A courthouse went up in flames in Egypt's northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during clashes between protesters and riot police Sunday, ...
Indonesian anti-terror squad criticized for deaths
Indonesia's U.S.-funded police anti-terror squad has killed seven suspected militants recently, reviving allegations that the force is not trying to ...