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October 31, 2016

Amnesty International to Observe Policing of Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance
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Amnesty International on Friday dispatched human rights observers to the
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, a day after police with
military equipment arrested over 140 people and used pepper spray,
Tasers, sound cannons, bean bag rounds and rubber bullets against
opponents of the proposed Dakota Access pipeline. Native American water
protectors who were arrested on Thursday say police wrote numbers on
their arms and housed them in what appeared to be dog kennels, without
bedding or furniture.
Topics:Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Native American Environment
Natural Gas & Oil Drilling Human Rights

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