Home > Keywords > Right > Police - Repression

Police - Repression

  • Venezuelan Police Officers Accuse Police Chiefs of Ordering them to Shoot at Demonstrators during Co
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sarah Wagner
    Caracas metropolitan police officers say they were ordered to fire at Chavista demonstrators on the day of the coup against President Chavez, on April 11, 2002 at Puente Llaguno. The four officers who testified before the Fourth Court of Aragua coincided in their accusations against the ex-directors of the metropolitan police, Henry Vivas and Lázaro Forero.
    The Fourth Court of Aragua is currently investigating the actions of Henry Vivas, the former Caracas Metropolitan (…)

  • Talks start on a calmer Palm Island
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Police and community leaders were holding talks following a riot by residents angered over a death in custody on Palm Island, off the north Queensland coast.
    After a quiet night on Palm Island, police were hopeful for an end to the emergency situation declared on Friday when angry residents set fire to the police station, courthouse, a police officer’s house and a stolen police car.
    Police said about 80 officers had been flown in from nearby Townsville, Cairns and Brisbane and had (…)

  • Rioters burn Palm Is police station
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    A riot has broken out in the Indigenous community on North Queensland’s Palm Island, after the release of an autopsy conducted on a man who died in police custody.
    Authorities are trying to restore law and order on the island, and armed police are being sent from Townsville.
    Up to 300 islanders have stormed the police station, setting fire to it with a petrol bomb. They also destroyed the police residence.
    Fire officials trying to control the blaze have reportedly been threatened by (…)

  • America’s Most Wanted: After Jordan disappeared, they called the police on ME!
    23 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    by Jane Stillwater
    Two months ago, I wrote an article entitled "Calling the Police on your Own Child". Little did I know that the next victim of Jordan’s parents’ love affair with calling "911" was going to be me! Now I know how Jordan must feel. It’s like being in an episode of "America’s Most Wanted" Or, more exactly, like being in an episode of "As the World Turns".
    If you have been keeping up with my serialized episodes of the "Jordan" soap opera, then you know that in the last four (…)

  • CNN: Chile calls off Bush banquet after security dispute
    21 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    47 comments

    Sunday, November 21, 2004 Posted: 12:57 PM EST (1757 GMT)
    SANTIAGO, Chile (CNN) — Plans for a state dinner for President Bush at Chile’s presidential palace were scratched Sunday after the United States insisted on security measures that Chile called unacceptable.
    The change came a day after Chilean security guards temporarily blocked one of Bush’s Secret Service agents from entering an official dinner.
    For the Sunday event, the Secret Service insisted all guests — totaling more than (…)

  • Chilean police arrest 120 demonstrators against globalization, Bush
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    Around 120 protesters were arrested here Wednesday after they crashed with police in a rally against globalization and US President George W. Bush, who will arrive here for Saturday’s economic leaders meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
    Some 500 protesters, most of them from university and middle school, marched along the main Alameda street in downtown Santiago,chanting slogans against globalization and President Bush.
    The police used tear gas to disperse (…)

  • THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2004, Issue No. 100
    THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
    Last month, Helen Chenoweth-Hage attempted to board a United Airlines flight from Boise to Reno when she was pulled aside by airline personnel for additional screening, including a pat-down search for weapons or unauthorized materials.
    Chenoweth-Hage, an ultra-conservative former Congresswoman (R-ID), requested a copy of the regulation that authorizes such pat-downs.
    "She said (…)

  • VANUNU RE-ARRESTED BY DOZENS OF ARMED POLICE; LATER RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from custody that evening, following his arrest in a dramatic and excessive show of force early Thursday morning, November 11, at St. George’s Cathedral in East Jerusalem. He has been punished yet again, and placed under house arrest for seven days. His cell phones were returned to him, but he is still waiting for his laptop computers to be returned.
    Vanunu was warned that he is still bound by the severe restrictions placed on him (…)

  • Tucson Police use violence against marchers
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
    9 comments

    ARIZONA-USA
    Tucson Police use violence against marchers by Emrys Wednesday November 03, 2004 at 11:35 PM
    TPD arrests 6 and shoots marchers with pepper bullets
    Tucson Police reacted with unwarranted violence against protestors in Tucson for committing the crime of walking in the street. About 200 people joined the “Don’t just vote, take action” march organized by several activist groups in Tucson, spearheaded by the National Lawyers Guild.
    Police arrested a total of 6 people during (…)

  • FBI Investigates Halliburton’s No-Bid Contracts
    31 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Solomon
    Inquiry to determine whether pentagon improperly awarded bids.
    The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.
    The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year (…)