“Earlier this year in Serbia, an EU candidate country, alarming reports emerged that an experimental acoustic weapon was used on demonstrators,” this is how Alice Jill Edwards, an Australian lawyer and academic, writes about the alleged sound cannon in Serbia in March 2025, reports Vreme.
Alice Jill Edwards is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
In an op-ed for the “EU observer“, she wrote about weapons that have been used in Europe in the previous period to torture dissenters, Vreme writes.
“Eyewitnesses to this strange weapon noted that the loud and unpleasant sound was accompanied by a sudden blast of air and vibrations,” writes the UN rapporteur, appealing that an additional appropriate investigation is necessary.
She also writes that in July, the European Union “quietly” adopted a revised anti-torture regulation, which the 27 member states committed to. It restricts the trade of similar weapons outside Europe and requires additional authorization for companies trading equipment that can be misused for torture.
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Alice Jill Edwards also mentions examples of specific weapons in Georgia, Belarus, and Turkey.
In Belarus, security forces used rubber-coated steel bullets against the crowd, and in Turkey, anti-government protesters were recently sprayed with tear gas and water, when more than 2,000 people were arrested.
In Georgia, security forces late last year dispersed demonstrators protesting the government’s decision to suspend EU accession talks with the indiscriminate use of rubber bullets and cannons allegedly filled with undisclosed chemical irritants, causing hundreds of injuries, the lawyer further writes.
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