Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation has called on global governments to support a UN-led process to regulate the trade in law enforcement equipment, highlighting how weapons such as batons are routinely misused in ways which constitute torture and other ill-treatment. In a new investigation, Blunt Force, the organisations catalogued 188 incidents where law enforcement officials have misused striking weapons, which are currently traded with little to no regulation. The investigation draws on open-source photo and video evidence from 35 countries, and includes examples from violent crackdowns on protests…
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