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World joins US protests but leaders restrained about Trump
Jun 15, 2020 10:05People have taken to the streets of Berlin, London, Paris and other cities around the world to demonstrate in support of Black Lives Matter protesters in the US and to vent anger over President Donald Trump’s response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. But at the top, the leaders of traditional allies of the US have taken pains to avoid criticizing Trump directly, walking a fine line to reconcile international diplomacy with domestic outrage.
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France must halt ‘abusive’ identity checks by police: Human Rights Watch
Jun 15, 2020 03:24France should halt identity checks by the police that are ‘abusive and discriminatory,’ Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, following angry protests over alleged racism in the security forces.
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Several thousand people hold anti-racism rally in French capital, slam police violence
Jun 14, 2020 04:41Several thousand anti-racism protesters gathered in central Paris on Saturday to denounce police violence, as a wave of anger continued to sweep the world following the death of African American George Floyd.
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French police protest against racism stigma, chokehold ban
Jun 12, 2020 11:09Police staged protests in cities across France against a ban on chokehold restraint techniques imposed by the government in response to public anger over the death of George Floyd and police brutality in France.
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EU human rights court rebukes France over fines for BDS activists
Jun 12, 2020 02:33The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that French judges were wrong to take penal action against members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, who staged demonstrations against Israeli-made products, stating the protests did not amount to incitement to discrimination.
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Anger, activism grow over police abuse amid French lockdown
Jun 11, 2020 10:14With France confined to fight the Coronavirus, a video circulated online in April showing a young man lying on the bloody ground next to two police officers – and quickly set off protests in struggling neighborhoods around the Paris region. Sometime before, the man had been on a motorcycle. Then, he crashed into a suddenly opened police car door. Whether the door was opened on purpose or not is unclear, but what was clear was the anger the video sparked.
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American police shoot, kill, imprison more people than other developed countries
Jun 10, 2020 11:13US Police officers are more likely to use force on black Americans – and, according to a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Health, black men are nearly three times more likely than white men to be killed by police intervention. Comparable figures for other countries are not readily available. In general, more Americans are subjected to the cogs of the criminal justice system than in many other countries; and more end up in prison, too.
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French forces ‘kill al-Qaeda commander in North Africa’
Jun 07, 2020 06:15French military forces based in North Africa have reportedly killed a senior militant linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist group.
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20,000 protest police brutality in Paris, echo anti-racism calls in US
Jun 03, 2020 06:15Nearly 20,000 protesters have defied a ban on public gatherings in the French capital of Paris to demonstrate against police brutality in France over the 2016 death of a black man in police custody, inspired by rallies in the US against racism and police violence.
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Protests against US police killing of George Floyd go global
Jun 02, 2020 08:42Protesters in cities across the world have staged rallies in solidarity with tens of thousands of Americans in the United States against rampant police brutality and racial profiling, following the killing of unarmed African-American George Floyd last week.