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<h1 class="reader-title">UN Special Rapporteur On Torture
Requests Info On German Police Brutalizing Anti-Lockdown
Protesters</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">by Tyler Durden</div>
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<p><a
href="https://summit.news/2021/08/02/un-special-rapporteur-on-torture-requests-info-on-german-police-brutalizing-anti-lockdown-protesters/"><em>Authored
by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,</em></a></p>
<p><strong>The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils
Melzer has requested more information on an
incident in which a female anti-lockdown protester
in Berlin was grabbed by the throat and brutally
thrown to the ground by riot police.</strong></p>
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<p>As we <a
href="https://summit.news/2021/08/02/videos-chaos-erupts-on-the-streets-of-berlin-as-police-attack-anti-lockdown-protesters/">highlighted</a> earlier,
the demonstrations ended up with a whopping 600
people being arrested amidst innumerable brazen
examples of police brutality, including against
children, that were caught on camera.</p>
<p>Germans were protesting against plans to ban
unvaccinated people from a plethora of different
venues, including restaurants, cinemas and stadiums.</p>
<p>One video clip shows an elderly protester merely
attempting to walk past a police officer dressed in
riot gear before he grabs her neck with both hands
and throws her to the floor.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The EU would be condemning
this as regime brutality if it was Russia but
since it's Germany they will support it instead.<a
href="https://t.co/3aXM4QFRif">pic.twitter.com/3aXM4QFRif</a></p>
— Stan (@StanM3) <a
href="https://twitter.com/StanM3/status/1421905660686573577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August
1, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>Cops were obviously given orders to enforce a
draconian crackdown on the protesters given their
behavior throughout the day, which looked like
something out of the 1930’s.</p>
<p>The clip caught the attention of Nils Melzer, a
professor of international law, whose official title
is United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment.</p>
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<p><em><strong>“This has just been brought to my
attention,”</strong></em> tweeted Melzer.</p>
<p><em><strong>“Can anyone provide my office with
the specifics / witness statements of this
incident and whether an official investigation
has been launched?” he asked.</strong></em></p>
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<p>This has just been brought to my attention.</p>
<p> Can anyone provide my office with the
specifics / witness statements of this incident
and whether an official investigation has been
launched?</p>
<p> Send to: <a
href="mailto:sr-torture@ohchr.org">sr-torture@ohchr.org</a><br>
(please not via Twitter-reply/DM)</p>
<p> Thank you! <a href="https://t.co/ly00UlPDMw">https://t.co/ly00UlPDMw</a></p>
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— Nils Melzer (@NilsMelzer) <a
href="https://twitter.com/NilsMelzer/status/1421935666963914754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August
1, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>It’s highly unlikely that any investigation will
take place given that riot police were clearly
ordered to conduct themselves with wanton disregard
for basic dignity and human rights.</p>
<p>Another video clip showed a police officer reacting
to a young boy’s concern over the treatment of his
mother by forcefully pushing him to the floor by his
head.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Berlin, this cop is hitting a
little boy in the head for worrying about his mom.
🤬🤯 <a href="https://t.co/3RQNKwzzbu">pic.twitter.com/3RQNKwzzbu</a></p>
— Willow (@Willow__Bella) <a
href="https://twitter.com/Willow__Bella/status/1421878398503247876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August
1, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>Another clip shows two old women also being pushed
to the floor by police.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Police shove elderly people
to your ground to protect their health. Welcome to
Berlin. <a href="https://t.co/Jlvj3DBIF7">pic.twitter.com/Jlvj3DBIF7</a></p>
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
(@stillgray) <a
href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1421885043706793986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August
1, 2021</a></blockquote>
<p>Another protester also <a
href="https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/01/berlin-police-harassed-and-attacked-by-demonstrators-in-anti-covid-19-measures-protests">collapsed
and died</a> while being harassed by police to
show his ID.</p>
<p>Anti-lockdown protesters have been vilified and
dehumanized by the media and by vaccine cultists who
lobby for them to be treated like lepers.</p>
<p>That’s why such scenes, which would cause outrage
if they occurred at a Black Lives Matter or LGBT
march, are either totally ignored or callously
celebrated.</p>
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