The Azerbaijani authorities must immediately release three leading opposition activists imprisoned for organizing and taking part in peaceful protests, Amnesty International said today after a court in Baku sentenced them to two and a half years each in prison…
Police in Harare have indicated they have banned all ‘processions’ in and around Harare, after the MDC-T Youth Assembly informed them of their intention to hold a peace march next month. Promise Mkwananzi, secretary-general of the Youth Assembly, told…
Police in military-dominated Burma on Monday prevented a rare protest by pro-democracy activists on the fourth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on a monk-led uprising, an official said. About 200 people had planned to march to Rangoon City Hall…
Members of the the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) Satellite Team are currently tagging the location of hundreds of Syrian tanks and other heavy mili-tary equipment on the Tomnod micro-tasking platform using very recent high-resolution satellite imagery provided…
Protesters carried a wounded man after clashes with government troops in Sana. Men carried a wounded protester from the site of the clashes in Sanaa. The security forces used heavy-caliber machine guns and other weapons against the protesters, who…
The American and French ambassadors to Damascus now have some company as occasional human shields for the Syrian protest movement. At the vigil on Tuesday of Giyath Matar, a human rights activist tortured and killed in custody, Robert…
When nonviolent demonstrations (like occupying a public sidewalk) and online civil disobedience (like crashing a website) against Wall Street’s crimes and the hijacking of American democracy by big-moneyed interests strike fear into the U.S. security state, it only makes…
Plain clothed policemen arrest a protester (C) during an anti-China rally in Hanoi, Aug. 21, 2011. Vietnam may have crushed anti-China protests at home but the rare street demonstrations have stoked demands for greater freedom in the relatively…
1 Egypt’s military prosecution on Sunday launched an investigation against Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old activist accused of insulting the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and calling for armed operations against the military and the judiciary. Mahfouz was…
1 Egypt’s military prosecution on Sunday launched an investigation against Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old activist accused of insulting the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and calling for armed operations against the military and the judiciary. Mahfouz was…
