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A British police officer who used maximum force to strike a black woman during an arrest was not motivated by race, the police force said. Well if I need someone to chop wood, I know where to go after seeing the video, which presumably is on somewhere like youtube by now. Of course "The force is outraged at the suggestion this may be linked to any kind of racist incident."

OTOH, Shami Chakrabarti called for an Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation. These images turn the stomach and raise serious questions about police misconduct," Chakrabarti said.

In Iran, the authorities refuse to bring in a physician to women in hospital who have been beaten by police over asking for women's rights. Women who objected were allegedly violently beaten and taken to the criminal's ward of Evin Prison.

They were detained while gathering outside a courthouse to demand a fair trial for five prominent women's rights activists whose court was convening at the same place. The women held up banners outside the revolutionary court, saying: "We have the right to hold peaceful protests."

It sort of mirrors the attitude Lord Levy, apparently of Jewish origin but living in the UK, takes towards women, as mentioned in the previous blog.