Tag: police
Authorities in Sydney have located two bodies, believed to be the missing individuals Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, who were last seen on February 19.
The discovery follows the arrest of police officer Beaumont Lamarre-Condon on charges of murdering Baird, 26, and Davies, 29, after he surrendered to police...
Russia's clampdown on the LGBTQ+ community has seen another LGBTQ+ club raided by riot police, who forcibly entered the venue Fame in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city.
The incident, which was captured in a video shared by local news sources, showed police interrupting the club's activities, abruptly halting the music...
Moscow police have conducted raids on several gay clubs a day after the Russian Supreme Court classified the "LGBT movement" as an extremist organisation, banning its activities nationwide.
According to reports by local media, attendees at the clubs were detained briefly, with authorities photographing their passports. One of the club-goers...
Protesters have clashed with police in central Auckland's Saint Patrick's Square following the court hearing of Eli Rubashkyn, the individual charged with splashing tomato juice on British anti-trans activist, Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, popularly known as Posie Parker.
The tomato juice incident, which occurred during a speaking event on March 25,...
Tensions escalated as the organisers of the annual Daegu Queer Culture Festival in South Korea faced opposition from police and government workers over allegations of illegal road occupation.
On Saturday morning, approximately 500 government officials gathered in Dongseongno, the city's shopping district, to prevent the festival organisers from setting...
A new documentary from the BBC has shed a spotlight on Egyptian police and their underground tactics utilising online dating sites to target the LGBTQ+ community.
The documentary titled: Queer Egypt Under Attack uncovers the murky and disturbing business between violent criminal gangs and corrupt Egyptian police officers in targeting...
Taylor Swan is a Diversity Liaison Officer and Dispatcher for NZ Police’s Emergency Communication Centre. He talks to Oliver Hall about the Rainbow inclusive changes NZ Police are making and his experience of physically transitioning while working there.
WHY DID YOU INITIALLY WANT TO JOIN NZ POLICE?
Like many kids growing...
LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was arrested in Qatar while staging a one-man protest against Qatar’s criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people – just 26 days before the start of the football World Cup.
Tatchell’s protest, which was the first-ever public LGBTQ+ protest in Qatar, took place outside the National...
