Daily Archives: June 29, 2023

2023-06-29: News Headlines

teleSUR (2023-06-29). 150 Arrested During Protests Against Police Violence in France. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, official sources reported that 150 people were detained on Wednesday due to the protests that are currently been carried out in France after a policeman shot dead a 17-year-old boy in the city of Nanterre. | Related: | On Tuesday, a video was broadcast on social networks in which it can be seen that a policeman fatally shoots the 17-year-old Naà´l. The victim had been stopped for an alleged traffic violation.

teleSUR (2023-06-29). 150 People Arrested During Protests Against Police Violence in France. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, official sources reported that 150 people were detained on Wednesday due to the protests that are currently been carried out in France after a policeman shot dead a 17-year-old boy in the city of Nanterre. | Related: | On Tuesday, a video was broadcast on social networks in which it can be seen that a policeman fatally shoots the 17-year-old Naà´l. The victim had been stopped for an alleged traffic violation.

Huma Yasin (2023-06-28). As Movements Like Stop Cop City Gain Power, Police Treat Free Speech as a Crime. truthout.org Free speech is not free in this country and hasn't been for quite some time. During a raid earlier this month, a dozen police officers arrested three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a bail and legal defense fund, which has helped activists arrested while protesting the construction of a multimillion-dollar police and fire department training center dubbed "Cop City" in a forest southeast… |

Leo Earle (2023-06-28). Senegal: Violent clashes as protesters stare down president. greenleft.org.au At least 16 people were killed, hundreds injured and more than 500 arrested, following three days of protest in Senegal in early June, prompting fears of a further crackdown, reports Leo Earle.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). How Honduran activist Edwin Espinal won his freedom from JOH's dictatorship. peoplesdispatch.org Five years ago, Honduran activist Edwin Espinal sat in a supermax prison facing trumped up charges of arson, property damage, and use of homemade explosive material. | Espinal was arrested and faced possibly decades of jail time due to his participation in the mass protests in Honduras against the electoral fraud carried out by Juan Orlando Hernández in the November 2017 elections. The blatant fraud had sparked a mass reaction and from the end of November 2017 well into February 2018, the streets and highways across the country were sites of road blockades, marches, rallies, and cultural actions demanding "Out JO…

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