[[SUMMARY / COMMENT: The tragic killing of Travon Martin in Flroida by a vigilante leads one stock aanalyst – widely carreid across financial web-sites – to ask whether it is not better for vigilantes to armed with tasers : a very sinister and inappropriate development… We are told: “It’s often a smart idea to […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Amnesty International reports armed militias threaten the security of Libya with 12 detainees tortured to death since September 2011, including detainees “given electric shocks with live wires and taser-like electroshock weapons.”]] Associated Press in New York, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 February 201 Armed militias now rule much of Libya, Amnesty International has warned, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: These are surel not actual tasers … still in recent days and weeks Libyans and sub-Saharan Adricans who stayed loyal Colonel al-Gaddafi during the recent conflict have been subject to systematic torture including shocks Taser-like weapons – which is tey another confirmation that taser merits the label “instrument of torture” ]] Amnesty […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : Use of tasers by the sinister-sounding “Gang Suppressrion Unit” – they do have a straight way of talking in Belize – since October 2010. The gangs are nearly all in Belize City, and there are drugs and smuggling … attention then turns to “an innocuous looking device – that fit on my […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Belize – especially Belize City – has a serious problem of gang warfare with gun killings. The police created the “Gang Suppression Unit” (GSU) arming them, inter allia, with tasers. The GSU, accused of widespread abuse, justifyies the violence of their interventions by repeating “We have a job to do”: their mandate […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Information released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – not the official UN position – mentions ” … Rabie’ Al-Zuraiqi , a 23-year-old protest organizer said he had been injured three times since the clashes began almost three weeks ago. He said he had been hit by rocks, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Students and other protesters, calling for democracy, are being tasered on the streets of Sanaa by Yemeni security forces and para-militaries. (See article on Egypt, a week earlier.) “[Security forces] attacked two demonstrators with electroshock tasers, witnesses told Human Rights Watch. Mizar Baggash Ghanem, a student leader at Sanaa University, told Human […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This is a press release by the “Mandela Park Backyarders”. Interesting to GlobalShock because it shows the apparent “slippage” of tasers (manufactured by TASER Inc. ???) into the “land battle” to fight government orders to leave unregistered squatter-settlement land. The ANC seems to be prolonging the hated apartheid regime’s policies. The only […]
Times of India, Praveen Dass … NLWs,however futuristic,will always come with considerable risks attached.Tasers,electro-shock devices that are now a fairly common feature of law enforcement in the West,are one cautionary example.Many suspects have been inadvertently ‘tasered’ into cardiac arrest in several instances in the US and Canada over the last decade. Apart from the politics […]
One Pakistan News … Srinagar, In occupied Kashmir, Indian police and other paramilitary forces are all set to introduce Taser guns which will be used against peaceful pro-liberation protestors. According to Kashmir Media Service, the Indian authorities have ordered for Taser, an electro-shock gun considered to be safer and less lethal in controlling violence. In […]
[[GlobalShock: The situation in Senegal, once known as a haven of press freedom, has seriously deteriorated. Supporters of President Abdoulaye Wade and members of his government reacted to press criticisms with distorted rhetoric, physical and verbal aggression – including use of the taser – and criminal proceedings …References to the use of tasers on two […]