Amnesty demands end to police force against Kudankulam protesters

[bananas]

Source: Indo-Asian News Service

Amnesty Friday demanded an end to the use of police force against "peaceful protesters" agitating against a nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu.

Terming the death of person in police firing on Monday as "a clear example of excessive use of force by the police", Amnesty demanded an immediate halt to the use of force against the protestors and an "impartial probe into all reports of police violations".

Amnesty International India's chief executive G. Ananthapadmanabhan demanded the police drop "false charges against protestors and release those individuals who have been arrested on such charges".

"The people of the villages around Kudankulam must be able to exercise their rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly without fear of violence or harassment," he said, according to a statement.

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Via http://www.dianuke.org/amnesty-demands-end-to-police-force-against-kudankulam-protesters-newstrack-india/

[Overseas]

1. K&R. Yes please!

Police brutality against peaceful protesters has been amping up all over the globe.

I wish our country would dial back the intensity too.

[bananas]

2. Yes, I wish this would get more attention here.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one posting about this stuff.

[Overseas]

3. You may be, in an election season.

I'm interested in India, so I checked to see what kind of protest it was.

And I worry, like others here have, about the increasing militarization of police response to even peaceful demonstrations.