Posts Tagged: murder
Court acquits policemen of #Jan28 murder charges
The notorious former director of security in Beheira, General Magdi Abu Qamar, whose troops massacred protesters on the Friday of Anger, 28 January 2011, has been acquitted of all murder charges, together with a number of policemen.
Read on »Colombia’s dirty war
This is exactly what Sisi’s police and army are doing in Egypt. Colombia’s military carried out at least 6,400 extrajudicial killings and presented them as combat deaths between 2002 and 2008, a number significantly higher than previously estimated, a special court said Thursday. AFP
Read on »End cops’ racist system
From Socialist Worker: It’s good that people protest, and demand answers and justice. But the odds are stacked against them.Not one officer has been successfully prosecuted over a death in custody. And figures released this week showed, when cops are found to have potentially committed gross misconduct, over 90 percent keep their jobs.Police are violent
Read on »Black pastor killed after family called 911 during mental health crisis
Pardoned murderer back in prison
Mohsen el-Sokkari, former State Security Police officer and contract killer, who was pardoned by Sisi last May, is back in prison, on money laundering charges.
Read on »El Salvador’s dirty warriors to face justice for 1989 massacre of 6 Jesuits priests, their housekeeper and her daughter
Via the Independent: Colonel Orlando Inocente Montano Morales was working in a sweet factory on the outskirts of Boston when his inglorious war record finally caught up with him. Col Montano Morales, a senior commander during El Salvador’s brutal civil war, had been quietly living in the United States for a decade when in May
Read on »Shaimaa al-Sabbagh was ‘too skinny’ to take a bullet during Cairo protest
The activist was killed by CSF Police Captain Yassin Muhammad Hatem Salah Eddin.
Read on »Brazilian police killed 11,000 people in five years
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.
Read on »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.
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