It’s been a bumper year for police brutality. We’ve seen women mauled by security forces in Egypt, journalists roughed up at the 15M demonstrations in Spain, and teargas canisters fired directly at protesters in Malaysia, to name but a few incidents.
‘There’s no question that it’s part of a global pattern,’ says Hannah Dee, spokesperson for Defend the Right to Protest. ‘Around the world we’re seeing growing movements of resistance and discontent against governments which are trying to impose unprecedented authoritarian measures and are resorting to force because they don’t have the consent of their populations.’
