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South Asia: Tasers and students in UCLA

Saturday, November 18th, 2006 @ 05:14 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan
Topics:: Human Rights, Law

An Iranian-American student at UCLA was repeatedly shot with a taser for passively resisting arrest. Sepia Mutiny has more - with a video shot by an eye-witness, who uploaded it to YouTube. (note - not graphic, but the audio has the student screaming with pain.)

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Georgia Popplewell

Also see GV’s Witness Human Rights Video hub post on the subject – http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/17/usa-video-sharing-places-las-police-in-the-spotlight/.

# 2006-11-18 at 8:21 am

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