カテゴリー: Police
The fiasco of the Operation 8 counter-terror operation in 2007 looms over new laws and how police judge who or what poses a threatIn the early hours of an October morning in 2007, teams of armed police stormed Rūātoki, a lush green valley in the North …
The 13 new constables have overcome society’s prejudice to win a place at Chhattisgarh’s training academyThe top police officer in Chhattisgarh state, Durgesh Awasthi, has nothing but praise for his new recruits. He suspects, he says, some of them will…
Exclusive: officers involved in violent crackdown worked with European police on controlling protestsThe EU provided crowd control training to specialist Myanmar police units alleged to have been involved in a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protest…
Saba Sahar, who returned fire while protecting her daughter, survived one of a wave of recent assassination attempts that have killed six policewomenIt was just after 7am when the car carrying Colonel Saba Sahar, one of Afghanistan’s most senior female…
Incident intensifies criticism of President Duterte, accused of allowing police to act with impunityThe brazen killing of a mother and her son at close range by an off-duty officer has caused outrage in the Philippines and reignited calls for reform of…
Exclusive: Figures obtained by the Guardian show Fiji police officers charged with 400 serious offences in five years, including murder, manslaughter, rape, and abductionWitnesses have rejected police claims a Fijian man who died in police custody jump…
New provincial commander says he is concerned by allegations of rape and sexual assault by officers in Alotau TownTwo policemen have been charged with rape allegedly committed inside a police station in Alotau Town, in Papua New Guinea’s south-east, bu…
Exclusive: Allegations of brutality in Fiji’s prisons have been effectively ignored by the government’s human rights commission, insiders claimComplaints against police and prison officers – including of a violent assault against a young inmate – have …
The spread of Covid-19 in India has been catastrophic for millions of its poorest and marginalised residents who are bearing the brunt of the world’s biggest shutdown. Hannah Ellis-Peterson tells us how coronavirus and the lockdown is further dividing …
Experts say Russia, Iran and China likely to be behind cyber-attacks on universitiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHostile states are attempting to hack British universities and scientific facilities to steal research relat…
Lydia O’Sullivan has been missing on the island of Fiji after travelling there from New ZealandA British woman has gone missing on the south Pacific island nation of Fiji. Lydia O’Sullivan, 23, has not been seen or heard from, for the past eight days.F…
The two men had been accused of killing a ruling party official but activists say the shooting appeared to be stagedTwo Rohingya refugees were shot dead by Bangladesh police during a gunfight in a refugee camp on Saturday after they were accused of kil…