Bump...
So just over a year to the day...
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Gr...494/story.html
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Greenpeace has filed formal complaints requesting an investigation and disciplinary action for alleged physical and mental abuse, as well as possible criminal ill-treatment by corrections officers against protesters following their arrests last year.
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Fred Bleau of Montreal, who was one of nine Greenpeace members initially charged but later had his charges dropped, said the guards subjected them to degrading strip searches, threatened him and his colleagues that they would have bones broken, had to share cells with other dangerous inmates, and said they don't like French people.
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"In the remand centre they were strip searched for no clear reason, other than for the purpose of degradation and humiliation," said Hudema. "In some cases, the strip searches were quite evasive, with rough searching of anal area and grabbing of genital areas."
Isabelle Charlebois, also of Montreal, gave a similar story about the treatment at the holding jail.
"What the guards were doing and the way they were talking to us was very aggressive and degrading. They were trying to humiliate us ," she said outside court. "Some of us have had physical abuses and other more mental abuses.But in general, I think it was abusive
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Greenpeace'rs are wussies, and to be fair, no one likes the french.