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U.N. cites police for being too forceful at A7 (Oakland)rally
by Ian Hoffman - Oakland Tribune
Saturday Apr 3rd, 2004 12:07 PM
In her 166-page report, Hina Jilani, a Pakistani human rights lawyer and investigator for the Geneva-based U.N. Commission on Human Rights, suggests that Oakland police used excessive force on protesters at the Port of Oakland.
excerpt of article from Oakland Tribune:

U.N. human rights officials have written up the United States for child prostitution and pornography, criminal executions, poor treatment of migrant workers and violence against women.

But the 2004 report is the first in at least five years to add the United States to a list of such repressive regimes as Indonesia, Burundi, China and others that routinely kill, torture, imprison or spy on human-rights activists.

Most of those nations responded to "letters of allegation" from U.N. officials. The U.S. State Department did not.

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