police brutality

Greece, Lefkada Island: police brutality against a Roma

The gripping account of the brutal beating of a Roma youth (gypsy) by the secret police on the Greek island of Lefkada, in front of his parents, during an identity card
check on 14th August 2009.

Call for Global Action Day in support of Vsevolod Ostapov

On April the 4, 2008, Moscow cops beat up and arrested seven young men near metro station Sokolniki in Moscow. Now one of them faces up to 5 years of prison, We ask you to support the Global Action Day in support of Seva Ostapov on July the 18th and carry out solidarity actions

Urgent Appeal: Police Repression in Chiapas, Mexico

Amnesty International, International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) and Human Rights Centre Fray Bartoleme de las Casas call on international condemnation of detention without charge and torture of 6 indigenous Tzeltal men in Chiapas. Please send letter urgently as the men continue to be detained.

Edinburgh demo remembers Ian Tomlinson

 Demonstrators took to the streets of central Edinburgh today Saturday 11th April in memory of Ian Tomlinson and all killed by police violence.  Behind a large black banner with the message THEY LIE, WE DIE people marched along the Royal Mile and Princes Street.

200 attend Wednesday's Greek solidarity march in Edinburgh

Edinburgh protest against the murder of Greek school student

On Wednesday 10th, over two hundred people attended a march through Edinburgh city centre, in a vibrant protest against the murder of 16 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos.

Greece: Police fire bullets near funeral

This blog at Occupied London has eyewitness reports from the streets of Greece.

"Fascists working with cops run amok in Patras; they stab two in Athens; police shoot 15 times in the air in Palaio Faliro and a flaming car is driven against the police station of Zefyri, Athens." (more)

Has a mixture of short and long reports. Some of the key posts:

"One male (a migrant, his ethnicity is not being reported) and one woman have been stabbed tonight. (...) it becomes quite clear: The “official” Greek state has reached its limit in dealing with the revolts. Monday’s riots were simply out of the police’s capacity for control. This is the time for its informal forces to kick in: the fascists. Their perfectly coordinated attacks in Patras clearly shows this."

To get an idea of how widespread the feeling is (not just kids / insurrectionist anarchists):

"The following day, a well-known local poet, now in his fifties, walked up to the police station, alone. He calmly opened his bag and, one after the other, he lit and threw the molotov cocktails he had in his bag. A new form of poetry?"

And the divisions:

Amnesty International on Greece

Amnesty International Urges Greek Authorities to End Unlawful, Disproportionate Police Force Used Against Peaceful Demonstrators


 

Policeman murders 16 year old boy in athens

 

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