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CAMPAIGNERS began a week of action today for the release of protesters held in the Netherlands after they occupied the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) building briefly in December.
About 50 people staged a sit-in at the end of the chemical watchdog’s annual conference in The Hague last month, in protest against its failure to investigate the alleged use of banned munitions by Turkey in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Police responded with violence, allegedly breaking the arm of one of the protesters while another was left with a broken nose.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
