Spain: UN protests arbitrary detentions
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention protested Spain’s imprisonment of Basque nationalist politician Karmelo Landa—as Madrid carried out more raids in the Basque Country.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention protested Spain’s imprisonment of Basque nationalist politician Karmelo Landa—as Madrid carried out more raids in the Basque Country.
Czech police charged 18 followers of the ultra-right White Justice and National Resistance organizations with plotting attacks following raids in Prague and other cities.
Tens of thousands marched in Rome against the Italian government’s immigration policy—and especially a new law that creates the specific criminal offense of “illegal immigration.”
After two days of protests at the IMF/World Bank meeting in Istanbul, reports are mounting of arrested youth brutally beaten by police while in custody.
Greek journalist Takis Michas is being sued by the Panhellenic Macedonian Front over his charges that Greek mercenaries in Bosnia participated in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
A Roma woman was shot dead and her 13-year-old daughter gravely injured when their house was attacked early Monday—the latest in a series of attacks on Roma.
As the remains of 534 victims of the Srebrenica massacre were buried in a ceremony on the 14th anniversary of Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, war criminal Ratko Mladic is still at large.
Thousands of protesters gathered in the suburbs of the central Italian town of L’Aquila, as the G8 summit came to a close—the town itself being blocked off by thousands of riot police.
Thousands of protesters opposing expansion of the US military base at Vicenza clashed with Italian police over the weekend as world leaders gathered for the G8 summit.
Ex-Kosova prime minister Agim Ceku was reportedly released two days after he was arrested in Bulgaria on an international war crimes warrant—although he is being asked not to leave Bulgaria.
Spanish police arrested three suspected ETA suspects in GuipĂşzcoa June 23. The Interior Ministry said the three formed an “armed commando” which was prepared to go into action immediately, but denied it was responsible for a June 19 car bomb… Read moreSpain: ETA cell busted?
Czech police have arrested several leaders of neo-Nazi organizations over the past week following a series of violent attacks on Roma communities.