http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/14066-police-brutality.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/14066-police-brutality.html http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2099734-2nd-day-riots-stockholm-suburb-shakes-sweden.html HUSBY, Sweden (AP) — 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 by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a knife. Dozens of windows were smashed, 10 cars and several containers were set on fire, and seven police officers were injured. Cars and ... Tue, 21 May 2013 16:12:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2099734-2nd-day-riots-stockholm-suburb-shakes-sweden.html 2013-05-21T16:12:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2096276-zimbabwe-pm-we-will-police-military-abuse.html HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and will make sure the services uphold the country's new constitution which demands impartiality in their duties. Tsvangirai said if his party comes to power it will manage the police an... Sun, 19 May 2013 16:53:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2096276-zimbabwe-pm-we-will-police-military-abuse.html 2013-05-19T16:53:59Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2092738-egypt-police-close-gaza-border-to-protest-kidnap.html CAIRO (AP) — 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 their colleagues by suspected militants, underscoring the lawlessness and crisis of authority in the country two years since the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The police protest comes a day ... Fri, 17 May 2013 19:30:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2092738-egypt-police-close-gaza-border-to-protest-kidnap.html 2013-05-17T19:30:56Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083328-hrw-sex-workers-china-subject-to-police-abuse.html BEIJING (AP) — Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in prostitution, a rights group said Tuesday in a report that called on the government to discipline abusive officers. Officers sometimes detain women only on the basis of their carrying condoms, thus det... Tue, 14 May 2013 06:48:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083328-hrw-sex-workers-china-subject-to-police-abuse.html 2013-05-14T06:48:50Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2015868-troubled-south-africa-debates-impact-white-rule.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now laments the crime and inequality that plague the nation two decades after it cast off racist white rule. "We can't pretend we have remained at the same heights and that's why I say please, ... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:06:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2015868-troubled-south-africa-debates-impact-white-rule.html 2013-04-12T15:06:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2012776-ukraine-urged-to-rampant-police-abuse.html KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Oleksandr Popov, an auto mechanic from a Ukrainian provincial city, says police beat, choked and shocked him with electricity for hours, trying to extract a confession out of him. After they realized he was not the man they were looking for, they simply released him, covered with bruises and barely able to stand. When Popov complained, prosecutors refuse... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:17:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2012776-ukraine-urged-to-rampant-police-abuse.html 2013-04-11T13:17:03Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1992908-egypt-steps-up-campaign-tv-satirist.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Tuesday stepped up a campaign against a popular TV comedian accused of insulting the president, threatening to revoke the license of a private TV station that airs his weekly program and angrily dismissing U.S. criticism of legal proceedings against him. The satirist, Bassem Youssef, was questioned by state prosecutors... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:12:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1992908-egypt-steps-up-campaign-tv-satirist.html 2013-04-02T22:12:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1951906-ap-exclusive-police-blamed-egypt-revolt-deaths.html CAIRO (AP) — 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 and used snipers on rooftops overlooking Cairo's Tahrir Square to shoot into the huge crowds. The report, parts of which were obtained by The Associated Press, is the most authoritative and sweep... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:39:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1951906-ap-exclusive-police-blamed-egypt-revolt-deaths.html 2013-03-13T20:39:41Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1926778-violent-protests-cairo-protests-spread.html PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) — Violent protests erupted outside Egypt's capital on Saturday as activists accused police of using excessive force in two cities and running over protesters, including one who was crushed to death by an armored vehicle. The violence in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura and the Suez Canal city of Port Said came as U.S. Secretary of Sta... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:30:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1926778-violent-protests-cairo-protests-spread.html 2013-03-02T20:30:44Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1924090-south-africa-police-charged-with-murder.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 incident which became a worldwide symbol of police brutality in this country. Earlier on Friday, friends and relatives of Mido Macia gathered around a simple table adorned with a few flowers in... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:37:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1924090-south-africa-police-charged-with-murder.html 2013-03-01T16:37:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1903486-egypt-rights-groups-allege-rising-police-brutality.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian rights groups alleged Wednesday that police abuse and brutality are on the rise in detention centers and at demonstrations, which have intensified since the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. More than a dozen groups charged in a statement that police were reverting back to the systematic to... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:12:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1903486-egypt-rights-groups-allege-rising-police-brutality.html 2013-02-20T20:12:15Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1894416-kenyan-government-sued-police-brutality.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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 election on March 4 amid warnings from international human rights groups that the police are not ready to prevent electoral violence while refraining from human rights violations. ... Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:33:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1894416-kenyan-government-sued-police-brutality.html 2013-02-15T15:33:43Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1886154-egypt-women-protest-sex-assault-site-attacks.html CAIRO (AP) — Washington's envoy on human rights cautioned Tuesday against the failure of Egypt's government to identify the perpetrators behind a growing number of gruesome attacks against female protesters, as nearly 1,000 women gathered in Cairo to denounce the recent sexual assaults. Beating drums and blowing whistles, the women defied advice by some l... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1886154-egypt-women-protest-sex-assault-site-attacks.html 2013-02-12T19:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1869146-ap-interview-morocco-islamists-warn-unrest.html RABAT, Morocco (AP) — 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 Spring. The nation's largest opposition Islamist group is challenging that view. In an interview with The Associated Press, Fathallah Arsalane, political leader of Al Adl wal Ihsan, or t... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1869146-ap-interview-morocco-islamists-warn-unrest.html 2013-02-05T07:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1866844-beating-torture-fuel-sense-egypt-police-unchanged.html CAIRO (AP) — 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. The follow-up was even more startling: In his first comments afterward, the man insisted the police were just trying to help him. Hamada Saber's account, which he has since acknowledged was fa... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1866844-beating-torture-fuel-sense-egypt-police-unchanged.html 2013-02-04T22:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/1866946-greek-court-orders-probe-alleged-police-beating.html ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into allegations of police brutality in the arrest of four alleged bank robbers after authorities released digitally altered mug shots that covered up extensive bruising on three of the suspects. The four men, aged 20 to 24, were arrested Friday in northern Greece shortly after a dou... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/1866946-greek-court-orders-probe-alleged-police-beating.html 2013-02-04T19:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1865648-conflicting-accounts-egypt-man-dragged-naked.html CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian man who was beaten and dragged naked by riot police during a violent protest changed his story on Sunday, telling prosecutors that security forces harmed him — a day after he accused protesters of undressing and assaulting him. The beating was caught on camera by The Associated Press, and the video was broadcast live on Egyptian t... Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1865648-conflicting-accounts-egypt-man-dragged-naked.html 2013-02-03T20:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1863888-video-police-abuse-stokes-anger-egypt.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Interior Minister vowed Saturday to investigate the beating of a naked man by riot police that threatened to further inflame popular anger against security forces, but suggested that initial results absolve the police of direct abuse. The beating was caught on camera by The Associated Press and the video was broadcast live on Egyptian... Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1863888-video-police-abuse-stokes-anger-egypt.html 2013-02-03T01:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1837908-rights-group-egypt-police-behaves-gang.html CAIRO (AP) — 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 control while the country's president flounders at efforts to reform the powerful security apparatus. The report released by The Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights documented 16 cases of p... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1837908-rights-group-egypt-police-behaves-gang.html 2013-01-22T19:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1832946-courthouse-burnt-egypt-clashes.html CAIRO (AP) — A courthouse went up in flames in Egypt's northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during clashes between protesters and riot police Sunday, according to witnesses. The blaze destroyed part of the building, burning some files. A security official said unidentified assailants were responsible. This was the second straight day of clashes there... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1832946-courthouse-burnt-egypt-clashes.html 2013-01-20T20:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1802608-indonesian-anti-terror-squad-criticized-deaths.html JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's U.S.-funded police anti-terror squad has killed seven suspected militants recently, reviving allegations that the force is not trying to take suspects alive — a trend that appears to be fueling the very extremism the predominantly Muslim country is trying to counter. Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said Sun... Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1802608-indonesian-anti-terror-squad-criticized-deaths.html 2013-01-06T23:39:00Z