[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A brief report from Amnesty Internaional: Their 2013 annual report is highly critical of Finland’s treatment of asylum seekers: a 30-year-old man died in custody in Vantaa when police shot him with a stun gun, while in Miehikkälä a 14-year-old boy was injured by a stun gun (See text in bold […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Israeli naval forces used stun guns when they boarded a Finnish ship attempting to break the sea blockade of Gaza on Saturday. Israel’s army said its forces took measures to ensure the safety of the passengers and did not use force. It intercepted the ship after all attempts to prevent its entry […]
[[SUMMARY / :COMMENTS We apologize for the poor translation (via Google translate: see Russian original below translation): Estonian police are planning to introduce tasers for special forces and rapid reaction units, claiming them to non life-threatening, claiming that “in Finland, for example, “tasers” are available for use by police patrols”, although this may prove too […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : An overall Amnesty Interational and Omega Organization report on the export of torture – including tasers (although these are probably generic tasers), particularly from the Czech Republic to renegade groups & countires. -The Czech Republic has issued licenses to export shackles, electric shock weapons and chemical sprays to 6 countries whose […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : [2 paragraphs from this report] This report highlights two Finnish issues unacceptable in its eyes: (1) the use of tasers against an agitasted prisoner at Vantaa Prison’s Psychiatric Unit; and (2) more generally, the use of stun-guns in a prison setting, and more especially in a prison medical facility.]] Para 101. […]
“Two More European Countries Approve TASER Technology for Trial Usage by Police Forces” the corporation trells invesotrs – but were they ever adopted?