An 8-year-old was handcuffed for carrying a stick. The case is one of dozens of NYPD complaints, review board finds
Updated 2336 GMT (0736 HKT) June 8, 2020
An 8-year-old boy handcuffed for carrying a stick. An 11-year-old black boy stopped and frisked after a handshake. A 17-year-old black boy pushed up against a fence for carrying a backpack.
These are just a few recent substantiated allegations of misconduct against New York Police Department officers, according to a report by the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), a city agency that investigates and delivers findings on police misconduct complaints.
Roma boy 'kicked in face' highlights French police brutality claims
Interior minister says he does not understand officers’ version of events
There are growing calls for justice from the families of two alleged victims of police violence in France including a 14-year-old Roma boy left with severe facial injuries after his arrest.
Christophe Castaner, the French interior minister, has said the case of Gabriel Djordjevic, who sustained a fracture to his eye socket and four broken teeth after he claimed he was kicked by a police officer, was “troubling”.
Castaner said he did not understand the police explanation for the boy’s injuries, which was that he had fallen.
Japanese broadcaster removes ‘racist’ video about George Floyd protests after outrage over ‘caricatures’ of black Americans
‘Offensive and insensitive’ video was made to explain reasons behind unrest in US
Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologised on Tuesday and deleted from its Twitter account an animated video aimed at explaining the background behind US protests for police reform, but which instead sparked online outrage for its depiction of African Americans.
The minute-long clip, which NHK had also broadcast on its Sunday evening programme Sekai no Ima, or The World Now, featured a tough-talking black narrator citing the wealth disparity between black and white Americans and the economic impact from the coronavirus.
But it made no mention of police brutality or the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed on 25 May when pinned by the neck for nine minutes by a white officer's knee, which sparked the latest protests.
Hong Kong security law: What does China really intend?
The upcoming new security law for Hong Kong is Beijing's most massive move so far toward curbing the democracy movement there. This is what the law is all about and why it is being criticized.
What did the National People's Congress, China's rubber stamp parliament, decide?
The decision, with 2,878 votes in favor, one against and six abstentions, was formally limited to instructing the Standing Committee of the NPC to draft a national security law for Hong Kong.
What the NPC officially voted through was a "Decision on establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to safeguard national security." In other words, the security of the whole of China is to be protected by measures and legislation specifically related to Hong Kong.
Iran to execute spy convicted of helping US kill Qassem Soleimani
An Iranian national convicted of spying for the US and Israel by helping target top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani will be executed, Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday.
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran's armed forces, which led to the killing of Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, in a US drone strike in Iraq.
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd was convicted of spying on Iran's armed forces "especially the Quds Force and on the whereabouts and movements of martyr General Qassem Soleimani" for large sums of money from both Israel's Mossad and the CIA, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a televised news conference.
Coronavirus: Satellite traffic images may suggest virus hit Wuhan earlier
An apparent surge in traffic outside Wuhan hospitals from August 2019 may suggest the coronavirus hit the area earlier than reported, a study says.
Harvard researchers say satellite images show an increase in traffic outside five hospitals in the Chinese city from late August to December.
The traffic spike coincided with a rise in online searches for information on symptoms like "cough" and "diarrhoea".
China said the study was "ridiculous" and based on "superficial" information.
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