Police sued over May Day protest
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Two people are taking the Metropolitan Police to court over the handling of a May Day protest in 2001.
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Police fired water-cannon and tear gas on Friday at the protestors who turned out in the tens of thousands. Many of the activists had marched peacefully in the police-authorised demonstration through Santiago
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At least three people were injured on Friday when police fired tear gas and sparred with rock-throwing demonstrators during a rally to protest the planned weekend visit of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
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Police braced for a day of civil disobedience Tuesday after an ugly turn in relations between convention protesters and the thousands of officers assigned to police them.
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Police are called in to support staff at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre as a disturbance breaks out.
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Police detained up to 300 people Saturday after violent clashes broke out during a protest against court rulings to evict a group of squatters from a downtown Copenhagen building, witnesses and officials said.
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By Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jan. 31--A federal judge has thrown out the lawsuit brought by a former Grand Forks man against two police officers and two jail administrators after a violent struggle with law enforcement after a standoff in May 2004.
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A civil rights group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday seeking to end what it said was a policy of drugging some immigrants facing deportation proceedings.
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Pakistani police detained opposition activists on Monday to stop them protesting in front of the Supreme Court as it resumed hearing challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's plans for re-election.
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Police fired shots in the air and tear gas at thousands of protestors in Indian Kashmir upset over damage to a mosque during a raid to free hostages seized by Islamic militants, a witness said.
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POLICE fought street battles today for a second straight day with university students protesting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile and the weekend arrival of US President George W. Bush.
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SRINAGAR, India  - Police in Indian Kashmir on Sunday detained at least 30 people protesting against alleged human rights violations by Indian security forces in the Himalayan region, police and witnesses said.
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Police get the go-ahead to launch a court challenge to a decision not to backdate their pay rise.
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Pro-hunt protesters are criticised by police after officers are hurt and three arrests made in Cardiff.
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A civil liberties group Thursday filed two federal lawsuits alleging that hundreds of people were illegally arrested during the Republican National Convention.
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On August 20, a riot was narrowly averted at a protest in Montebello, Quebec, when an alert and observant protester noticed that three masked men seemed out of place among the crowd - one of them carried a fist-sized rock and refused to put it down when repeatedly asked.  The men refused to unmask or identify themselves.  Eventually, the three masked men rushed the police line and were seemingly arrested.  Allegations immediately surfaced that the men were undercover police officers.  These allegations were later confirmed, as the Quebec police admitted that the three masked men were, in fact, police officers.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Around 10,000 anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police on Wednesday, injuring eight, as they tried to blockade routes to a summit of major powers in northern Germany.