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  • De Menezes family murder charge call
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Relatives of the Brazilian man shot dead by anti-terror police on a London Tube train want them to be charged with murder.
    Officers mistakenly thought Jean Charles de Menezes was a suicide bomber, but recently leaked documents show he did not try to run away from police or vault the ticket barrier before they gunned him down at Stockwell Tube station as initial reports suggested.
    According to documents obtained by ITV News, the Brazilian entered the station at a normal walking pace and (…)

  • Police under pressure over Menezes leak
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Tempest and Simon Jeffery
    Family representatives and campaigners for the Brazilian man shot dead on a London tube train are demanding to know how Scotland Yard allowed misleading information to circulate about his killing.
    In the wake of a leak last night from the independent report, which revealed eyewitnesses seeing Jean Charles de Menezes being held by police in his seat before being shot in the head, attention has now turned to the initial accounts of his death. These (…)

  • Shot Brazilian ’did not jump barrier and run’
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philip Johnston
    The Brazilian electrician shot dead by police on the London Underground last month was being restrained when he was killed by officers from Scotland Yard’s firearms unit, according to documents leaked last night.
    Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head by two plainclothes policemen who had followed him on to the train at Stockwell station in the mistaken belief that he was a potential suicide bomber.
    Documents and photographs leaked to ITV News (…)

  • British police challenged over shooting of Brazilian man
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kirsten Aiken
    MARK COLVIN: In Britain a leaked report has cast major new doubts on the credibility of the police in the case of the young Brazilian man who was wrongfully killed on the underground last month.
    The report, obtained by the national commercial TV news service ITN, contradicts the police account of how undercover officers shot and killed, Jean Charles de Menezes.
    It challenges such police claims as that Mr de Menezes ran away and jumped a ticket barrier, and even that he (…)

  • Protesters cut fence, walk unchallenged through Stuttgart’s Patch Barracks
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charlie Coon
    STUTTGART, Germany - Three anti-war protesters, including a 70-year-old woman, turned themselves in to police on Tuesday after they cut a large hole in the fence at Patch Barracks, walked onto the base, hung a banner, and weren’t challenged by anyone.
    The three Germans, the woman and two men ages 51 and 22, were apparently surprised they weren’t arrested after breaking onto the base at about 11:30 a.m. So they walked through the base and out the main gate, where they (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan to Be Arrested Thursday
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    Cindy Sheehan phoned me from Texas a few minutes ago to say that she’s been informed that beginning Thursday, she and her companions will be considered a threat to national security and will be arrested. Coincidentally, Thursday is the day that Rice and Rumsfeld visit the ranch, and Friday is a fundraiser event for the haves and the have mores. Cindy said that she and others plan to be arrested.
    http://www.meetwithcindy.org
    NOTE: CODE PINK is reporting that the idea (…)

  • Police KILL raver at CzechTek
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    One man confirmed dead as riot police hurl tear gas into tents and vehicles on Friday night (29th July) in their 2200 hrs raid of the legal CzechTek site.
    Czechtek is open-air international and multicultural music festival with 12 year tradition. Not only different genres of music, but also videoart and other art performances take place on this unique event of free culture. In all history of festival there were no significant damages or problems, participants while leaving clean the land (…)

  • Police, protesters clash in Iraqi town
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 1000 protesters have clashed with Iraqi police in the town of Samawa, south of Baghdad, leaving at least one person dead and about 60 others injured, police say.
    The protest on Sunday was over the poor state of water and power supplies.
    Witnesses said police opened fire on the crowd.
    At least one person was killed and 46 civilians injured in the fighting, said Captain Hussein Manwar. Thirteen police officers were injured, he said.
    Witnesses said the demonstration in front of (…)

  • Sharon Money Scandals Build on Prosecutor’s Desk
    5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
    The State Prosecutor’s office has received a police file which alleges that PM Sharon’s family improperly received more than one million shekels from the Israel Land and Development (ILD) firm.
    Police investigators completed their probe and transferred the findings to the State Prosecution on Tuesday. The file contains suspicions that PM Ariel Sharon’s Sycamore Ranch illegally received $325,000 in 1999 from ILD, headed by Ya’akov Nimrodi, in return for options to (…)

  • Hate crimes jump by 600% since 7/7
    4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Vijay Dutt, London
    Hate crimes in Britain have soared by 600 per cent causing the fear of a race divide in multicultural British society. Scotland Yard figures show there was 269 religious hate crimes, motivated by animosity towards Muslims since July 7 compared with 40 in the same period last year. A direct outcome of the two bomb attacks on London Transport system, such hate offences have jumped by nearly 600% in the capital.
    Most were verbal abuses or minor assaults, but it also (…)