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News and articles about work, policy and mutinies in armed forces and police services around the world.
23 dead in continued clashes in Guinea strike
23 people have been reported dead after further clashes between striking workers and goverment forces in Guinea.
After a day of violence on Saturday which left at least 23 people dead the union coalition which called for the original indefinite strike has added the demand that the President, Nasana Conte, resign as well.
8. Cop a load of these bastards
London police almost daily put up road blocks for despatch riders. In important thoroughfares like Newgate street, Soho square or Pall Mall the police would stop and harass all couriers while allowing other traffic to pass freely.
French police arrested after missing man found dead
The body of Taoufik el-Amri, who disappeared after being arrested by police, has been found in a canal near the scene of his disappearance.
The Police initially denied having encountered Taoufik, who disappeared on the 22nd of Niovember. On Friday they finally admitted having taken him temporarily into custody. The story given by the three officers in question is not consistent with that of other witnesses.
Inquiry proves that French Police were chasing dead boys.
An investigation into the deaths of two boys in Clichy Sous Bois which led to the riots in Paris suburbs late last year has proved that police officers, despite denials from the oficers on the ground all the way up to the interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, were chasing Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna on the night that they were killed.
The investigation has uncovered evidence that Bouna Traore and Zyed Benna, along with their friend Muhittin Altun who was seriously injured on the same night were being chased by police officers. (Altun was also arrested the night before he was due to testify before an enquiry.)
Come and wet this truncheon
Classic pamphlet by miner and anarcho-syndicalist Dave Douglass on political policing during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984/5 - when the state acted like an occupying army in working class areas. First published in 1986.
There have been a number of small pamphlets on various aspects of the police in the 1984-85 miners strike. Some by Civil Liberties and Civil Rights organisations have exclusively dealt with the wider implications for 'civil rights' in Britain. Others have been written by lawyers, outraged at the extension of police powers without any legislative authority.
French police convicted for brutality
Three Parisian Police officers have been found guilty of assault on five people during a series of events described by the judge as "ubuesque."
After being told by a young woman that her phone had been stolen three police officers decided to stop and search a nearby young man (who was completely cleared of any involvement.) When several local people came out to protest at the rough treatment of a young man that they knew was not involved the police called for reinforcements.
Serantini, Franco, 1951-1972
A short biography of Italian anarchist Franco Serantini, who was murdered by police during an anti-fascist demonstration.
Francisco Serantini was born in Cagliari on Sardinia on 16th July 1951 and abandoned at birth. He was given both his names by an official of a literary bent or a priest or policeman who had seen in the paper recently mention of the Romagnol writer of the same name, an author of picturesque novels, one of which was I Bastardi.
Janitors' civil disobedience ends in police brutality
A march by janitors in Houston, Texas, was attacked by police on 16 November leaving four inured and 44 arressted.
Taken from Houston Justice for Janitors
Armed police move in on Oaxaca protests
At least eight people have died as police shot at protestors and broke down barricades, after five months of protests in the city.
Protests began in May, with teachers striking to demand the resignation of Ulises Ruiz, the state govenor. The teachers have been backed by an umbrella organisation, the Popular Assembly of Oaxaca Villages (APPO). The teachers won the support of students and local people who barricaded much of the city including public buildings.
Atlanta families protest against police killings
Relatives of the 11 people killed this year by DeKalb County police protested on Tuesday night to demand a full account of the deaths.
All 11 victims were shot dead, five times more than the usual number of annual killings by police. The families are demanding explainations from the police about the circumstances of the deaths, as they have never been told what actually happened to their relatives.
Iffat Muhammad says she has never known why police shot and killed her brother, Ab-raheem Muhammad in August this year.
