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Oakland Ranked Alongside Gambia, Egypt, Pakistan For Human Rights Abuses

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A United Nations report lists police firing of wooden plugs and shot-filled beanbags at antiwar demonstrators last April alongside the world’s worst cases of government defamation and violence against activists in 2003 … That puts Oakland’s finest in the company of the New York Police Department — which charged into protesters with horses, batons and pepper spray in February 2003 — and also Gambia, where security forces used batons, tear gas, rubber and lead bullets to quell student unrest in 2000. In Egypt and Pakistan, other protests against the war in Iraq led to arrests and alleged torture.

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