Tag: Police crackdown
Greens accuse Australian police of ‘excessive force’ against anti-war protesters at...
Asia Pacific Report
The Victorian Greens have demanded an independent inquiry into Australian police tactics and alleged excessive use of force today against antiwar protesters...
In Canada, a pattern of police intimidation of freelance journalists is...
COMMENTARY: By Savanna Craig
On the morning of April 15, I headed to a branch of Scotiabank in downtown Montreal to cover a pro-Palestine protest....
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence militant leaders arrested
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's security forces have arrested eight people believed to be involved in the organisation of...
French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown
Asia Pacific Report
French police and gendarmes force were deployed around the political headquarters of the pro-independence Caledonian Union in Kanaky New Caledonia's Nouméa suburb...
Martyn Bradbury: Shallow NZ media coverage of Kanaky crackdown focused on...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury
The coverage by the New Zealand media over the brutal crackdown in New Caledonia by the French on the indigenous Kanak...
‘Repair colonial violence’ and support Gaza ceasefire, say Otago academics
Asia Pacific Report
Following an open letter by Auckland University academics speaking out in support of their students' right to protest against the genocidal Israeli...
20 people wounded in Indonesian police crackdown on Papua protest
Asia Pacific Report
At least 20 people were wounded when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined...
PNG police arrest 101 men in two-city crackdown after local killings
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea police in Madang and the National Capital District have arrested a total of 101 men suspected of being involved in...
Fight against crime in PNG’s Oro gains momentum – 22 suspects...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Since the start of Papua New Guinea's Operation Stabilising Oro last month, 22 rape, murder and armed robbery suspects...