UN rapporteur stands by criticism of Dutch police violence: VK

The UN’s special rapporteur on torture has admitted the terms in which he described the actions of Dutch riot police during an anti coronavirus demonstration were ‘provocative’ but said that he stands by his criticism of police practice in the Netherlands. Nils Melzer came under fire for retweeting two pieces of film without context, and describing one as ‘one of the most disgusting scenes of police brutality I have seen since George Floyd’. He also called for legal action against...