09 February 2014

Critics of internet law demonstrate in Turkey

Turkish riot police have used tear-gas grenades and water cannon to disperse more than 2,000 people demonstrating against new internet restrictions that have caused concern both at home and abroad.

Large numbers of police with body armour and shields backed up by armoured water-cannon lorries deployed against the chanting, mostly young crowd around Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday. [Al Jazeera] Read more