Leading NGOs in Brazil have called for the de-militarization of the country’s police forces after finding that officers killed more than 11,000 civilians in the five years to 2013, averaging about six killings a day.
US police killings highest in two decades
The number of felony suspects fatally shot by police last year — 461— was the most in two decades, according to a new FBI report.
Foreign journalists face increasing hostility in Egypt
Since the January 2011 revolution it has been harder for foreign reporters in work in Egypt, amid a paranoid atmosphere of xenophobia.