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Police use of rubber bullets maiming thousands globally: Amnesty

Police misuse of rubber bullets and other less lethal weapons against peaceful protesters has killed dozens of people and maimed thousands in more than 30 countries over the last five years, Amnesty International has said. The human rights group, in a new report published on Tuesday, said a global Torture-Free Trade treaty was needed to regulate the trade in policing equipment, including kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs) such as rubber-coated metal […]

today14 March 2023

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Teen shot by police left with gaping hole in his mouth

A 14-year-old boy who was shot in the face with rubber bullets in Hout Bay has been left with a gaping wound in his mouth. "Ona can't eat. He is struggling,'' his mother Pinky Dubula said. "It is going to be difficult for him now that he has a hole in his mouth." Ona was shot by police during protests in Hangberg, Hout Bay, on Tuesday. Doctors at Cape Town's […]

today15 September 2017

International News

Palestinian hospitals stretched with influx of wounded

More than 900 Palestinians have been injured in confrontations with Israeli forces in the last 10 days over the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Palestinian hospitals, already overstretched, fear a large influx of injured if tensions, which erupted on July 14 after Israel closed the sensitive site in the occupied East Jerusalem, continue. They also highlighted that most of the injuries inflicted by the Israeli forces […]

today24 July 2017

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