Reports have emerged that Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters demonstrating for greater rights. According to witnesses, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of predominantly Shi’ite villages around Manama, but no…
With their demands for the Ministry of Interior to be reformed and purged of convicted former minister Habib El-Adly’s appointees, non-commissioned officers refuse to give in to pressure to end their strike Angry non-commissioned police officers have decided…
Church of England split over St Paul’s handling of Occupy London protes The Church of England, not for the first time, has been left ruing its handling of the protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral, a situation in which it has…
Indonesia’s Presidential Guard tackled and appeared to punch and kick a student on Friday as he attempted to protest against the government’s increasingly dismal record fighting against corruption. Television footage showed the university student, identified as Iqbal Jabarudin, chairman…
An imam who led alternative Friday prayers as part of a pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) civil disobedience campaign a few months ago was caught in Bolu with fake banknotes by the police department on Thursday. The İstanbul…
Teargas and gunshots have on Monday morning rocked parts of Kampala City as Police battled to disperse protestors attempting to take part in the Walk to walk demonstrations. Many shops have remained closed in the Central Business District following…
Chai Ling, former commander-in-chief of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement, on Wednesday visited “Occupy Boston” protesters to provide them with encouragement. “Without pressure to provide a public space for these protests to continue, the movement will not be…
Much of the criticism of «Occupy Wall Street» and the similar movements taking place — including in Hartford and New Haven — is a lack of leadership and clear goals. Those are actually reasons why this movement will continue…
The lower house of Belarus’s parliament has passed amendments to the Law on Mass Activities in the Republic of Belarus that specifically ban demonstrations organized through the Internet. «An amendment has been added about the organization of unsanctioned gatherings…
The members of the “house of representatives” adopted amendments to the Law on mass events at two readings on October 3. The news was spread by the press service of the “house of representatives”. The amendments need to be…
