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Appeals Court Upheld Conviction of Commander Burge Who Presided Over Torture of Suspects

April 12, 2013April 10, 2013 CopBlock 1130 Views Brutality, Civil rights, coerced confession, Coerced Confessions, confession, criminal injustice system, Criminal procedure, Dishonesty, Double Standard, Featured, Harassment, Human rights, illegal interrogation, Immunity, injustice, Interrogations, police, police abuse, police procedure, Police State, Qualified Immunity, Torture

The 7th Circuit upheld the conviction of a police commander who “presided over an interrogation regime where suspects were suffocated

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We Need Gun Control Now

January 7, 2013February 5, 2017 Georgia Sand 1216 Views Accountability, assault, Brutality, Caste system, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, fear, fear-mongering, Featured, Filming police, freedom, gun laws, Gun rights, Guns, Harassment, Homicide, Human rights, Hypocrisy, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, rights, Second Amendment, strike the root

Dear gun control advocates, I agree with you. We need gun control, now. Not just because I personally do not

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Prominent Bahraini Human Rights Activist Said Yousif Arrested

August 20, 2012May 9, 2013 CopBlock 532 Views A'ali, Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Human rights, life imprisonment, Middle East, military court, Muharraq, Nabeel Rajab, Nayef Yusuf Mahmoud, protestors, Said Yousif, Shiite, Sunni monarchy, Twitter, US Congress, US NAvy

According to RT: Human rights activist Said Yousif tweeted that he was arrested at a checkpoint in A’ali, a major

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Witness’s Yvette Alberdingk Thijm on using cameras to fight human rights abuses

January 21, 2011April 14, 2011 CopBlock 315 Views Congo, Filming police, Human rights, Iran, Peter Gabriel, Reason Magazine, Rodney King, Witness, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm

Check out Witness’s website here.

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