State Violence

One month on Guineans protest against massacre

Oct. 28, 2009

CONAKRY (AFP) – Many residents of Conakry and other Guinean towns stayed at home Wednesday in a quiet protest at the army's massacre of opposition demonstrators exactly a month earlier.

Immigrant dies after police torture in Athens

libcom.org Oct. 10, 2009

A 25 year old Pakistani sans papier immigrant succumbed yesterday to woulds inflicted while being tortured in the police station of Nikea, Athens, two weeks ago.

Mohamed Kamran Atif, a 25 year old Pakistani sans papier immigrant succumbed on Friday 9th of October to wounds inflicted while being tortured in the police station of Nikea, an Athens suburb, between the 26th and 28th of September 2009.

On September 26 at 1:30 am, 15 cops broke in the appartment of the young man, beating him and his family, alleging that Mohamed had beaten a greek

Guinea's government to investigate protest deaths

Journalists protest beatings in China

HONG KONG, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Hundreds of journalists gathered in Hong Kong Sunday to protest the government's alleged beating of three colleagues in China's Xinjiang region, officials said.

An estimated 700 journalists dressed in black held signs calling for the government to apologize to TVB reporter Lam Tsz-ho, his cameraman Lau Wing-chuen and Now TV cameraman Lam Chun-wai, Radio France Internationale reported.

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