A court in Trujillo, Peru, issued a ruling absolving former National Police colonel Elidio Espinoza, who was charged with running a secret "death squad" within the force.
The center of attention in Brazil was supposed to be the pope’s visit, but for many people it was actions by the militarized police, such as the disappearance of a Rio construction worker.
California authorities are threatening disciplinary measures as more than 30,000 inmates in the state's prisons have joined a hunger strike against solitary confinement.
Changes to a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement” allow military commanders to “quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
Veteran Black Panther Assata Shakur's addition to the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" list is a propagandistic abuse of the English language in the service of historical revisionism.
The Buenos Aires police use rubber bullets against nurses and mental patients, the latest episode in the city government’s campaign against public property.
The Kavkaz Center, voice of the Chechen mujahedeen, issued a statement suggesting that the suspects in the Boston attacks were framed in a plot to discredit their struggle.
A Somali-American accused of planning a Christmas bomb attack in Oregon appears to be the latest victim of an FBI-generated bogus "terrorism" plot.
The courts let a former president off for police killings in his administration 11 years ago, but sentenced a left-leaning former economy minister with suspicious cash in her office.
Mexico City released 14 people held for almost four weeks on charges of “attacks on the public peace” during protests against the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
The FBI served search warrants at three homes in Portland. Ore. and issued five grand jury subpoenas in a case apparently related to May Day protests in Seattle.
An appeals court in Turkey upheld the convictions of 14 employees of Cumhuriyet, a Turkish news outlet that has been critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. The defendants—including journalists, a cartoonist, executives and accountants—were sentenced in April to prison terms between four and eight years on charges of "acting on behalf of a terrorist group without being members." The Third Criminal Chamber of the Istanbul Regional Court of Justice reviewed and upheld each of these sentences. In Turkey, sentences less than five years cannot be overturned once they are upheld by an appellate court, meaning that eight of the defendants must now serve out their terms. The remaining defendants with longer sentences plan to appeal to Turkey's Supreme Court. (Photo: WikiMedia via Jurist)
