DEUTSCHE WELLE: Allegations of police brutality and human rights abuses by law enforcement officers in the German city of Cologne have surfaced in a news report.
The alleged abuses, including putting children and adolescents in cages, are supposed to have taken place during a demonstration against a far-right "Stop Islam" conference in Cologne last weekend.
The police were confronted before, during and after the event -- eventually abandoned on public safety grounds -- by extreme leftists who attempted to reach the square during the planned rally by anti-immigrant group Pro Cologne.
Der Spiegel magazine alleged on its Web site that hundreds of protestors, including 72 teenagers and three children, were taken to a detention center in the nearby town of Bruehl, and some had to stay in open air cages despite the cold temperatures.
The protestors said about 30 of them were kept in a 36 square-meter (388-square-foott [sic]) cage, and some of the teenagers were not allowed to call their parents or use the toilets, Der Spiegel Online said, adding that a lot of them were not released until the early hours of Sunday morning. Police Accused of Alleged Brutality at Cologne Anti-Islam Rally >>> | September 24, 2008
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