The Met Police and the family of Ian Tomlinson have reached an out-of-court settlement over his death at the 2009 G20 protests.
By arresting journalists, lawyers, and doctors who were helping protesters, Erdogan has shown that any semblance of a liberal democracy was nothing more than a thin veil over authoritarianism.
Hackers have taken control of the Brazilian World Cup website to bring worldwide attention to the widespread police brutality in the country that is not being reported in the press.
Erdogan’s government have threatened to use the army to suppress further demonstrations, as trade unions strike in support of the protesters, and the police continue to use violence in an attempt to quell the unrest across the country.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to push ahead with the controversial commercial development of Gezi Park that sparked violent clashes with police, as the protests spread to Ankara.