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Over 92 Die In Iran’s Mahsa Amini Protests – Rights Group

Over 92 Die In Iran’s Mahsa Amini Protests – Rights Group

October 3, 2022 6:54 am

No fewer than 92 people have been confirmed dead as Iran has cracked down on women-led protests which was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the notorious morality police, the group Iran Human Rights confirmed on Monday.

As protests stretch into a third week, President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday stated that the ‘enemies’ of Iran had ‘failed in their conspiracy’.

Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, was pronounced dead two weeks after she was detained for allegedly breaching rules requiring women to wear hijab headscarves and modest clothes, sparking Iran’s biggest wave of popular unrest in almost three …

Police Detain 17 US Lawmakers For Protesting Abortion Rights

Police Detain 17 US Lawmakers For Protesting Abortion Rights

July 20, 2022 3:54 am

No fewer than 17 Democratic lawmakers, including prominent progressives such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, were among those arrested at an abortion rights protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Tuesday, the police have confirmed. 

In a post on Twitter on Tuesday, the US Capitol police claimed that the demonstrators had blocked traffic on a nearby road and were been given three warnings before officers made the arrests.

‘We made a total of 35 arrests for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding,’ the police said. ‘That arrest number includes 17 Members of Congress.’

Africa Daily News, New York reports that …

200 Protesters Detained In Armenia As Presure On PM Mounts

200 Protesters Detained In Armenia As Presure On PM Mounts

May 4, 2022 1:23 am

Police in Armenia on Tuesday detained no fewer than 200 anti-government protesters as opposition parties heightened pressure on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his handling of a territorial dispute with Azerbaijan.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that protests erupted in Yerevan on Sunday with the opposition demanding Pashinyan’s immediate resignation accusing him of plotting to cede to Baku all the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region over which the two countries went to war in 2020.

Also. fresh demonstrations took place on Monday and on Tuesday police cracked down on protesters who blocked traffic in central Yerevan, provoking chaotic scenes …

Police Detain Many Following May Day Clashes In Turkey

Police Detain Many Following May Day Clashes In Turkey

May 2, 2022 2:30 am

Turkish police on Sunday detained no fewer than 160 protesters who were trying to hold a May Day rally in defiance of a ban which was recently imposed by the governor’s office on workers in the country.

Images which were sighted on social media by Africa Daily News, New York on Monday showed riot police clashing with protesters very close to Istanbul’s Taksim Square, pinning some of them forcefully to the ground before rounding them up in a police car.

The Istanbul governor’s office confirmed that about 164 people were held after staging ‘an unauthorised rally’ and refusing to disperse …

More Deaths As Benin Election Protests Continue

More Deaths As Benin Election Protests Continue

April 10, 2021 1:52 am

A 2nd death was reported on Friday after troops opened fire with live rounds to ‘clear’ a protest in central Benin just days before President Patrice Talon seeks re-election.

The incumbent president, Talon, a cotton magnate who was first elected in 2016, is expected to cruise to an easy victory in Sunday’s ballot with most of his main opponents exiled or disqualified, however, some of the government’s pre-election moves have elicited protests which are mostly coming from opposition bastions mostly in the centre and north of the country.

On Thursday, troops stationed at the protest ground fired tear gas and …

Protests leave permanent imprint on Hong Kong's streets

Protests Leave Permanent Imprint On Hong Kong’s Streets

June 9, 2020 4:07 pm

Torn up paving stones filled-in with concrete, cages erected over bridges and security guards on campus entrances — protests have left a permanent imprint on Hong Kong’s streets after a year of tumult.

One year ago, on June 9, a record-breaking crowd of some one million marched through the international finance hub demanding the withdrawal of an unpopular bill allowing extraditions to the authoritarian mainland.

As city leaders dug in, the movement snowballed into a popular revolt against Beijing’s rule with huge rallies and clashes with police raging for seven straight months.

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Anambra PDP Protests S’Court Judgment

January 19, 2020 2:29 pm
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Anambra State on Sunday protested the judgment of the Supreme Court of January 14th, which sacked it’s candidate for the 2019 Imo Governorship election, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha for Senator Hope Uzodinma of All Progressives Congress, APC.

Members of the party in their thousands who thronged the Anambra State Judiciary complex, led by the state chairman, Mr Ndubuisi Nwobu called President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly Wade in, while also urging the judges of the Supreme Court to reverse themselves, describing the judgment as a travesty of Justice.

Nwobu who addressed journalists at the

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2 Dead After Police Open Fire Amid Raging India Protests

December 19, 2019 5:21 pm

At least two people are dead after police opened fire at a demonstration, an official said Thursday, as fresh protests erupted across India against a contentious citizenship law that critics say is anti-Muslim.

The men — Abdul Jalil, 49, and Samshir Kudroli, 23 — “died in police firing during the protests”, Qadir Shah, a spokesman for the deputy commissioner of the southern city of Mangalore, told AFP, adding that a curfew had been imposed in the city with schools, restaurants and bars shut.

Another man taken to the King George’s Medical University Trauma Centre in Lucknow in the northern …

Protests Rage In Northeast India Over Citizenship Bill

December 10, 2019 3:43 pm

Protestors in northeast India set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads on Tuesday in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers approved the government’s new citizenship bill.

The legislation, set to go before the upper house on Wednesday, will fast-track citizenship claims from immigrants from three neighbouring countries — but not if they are Muslim.

For Islamic groups, the opposition, rights groups and others this fits into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise India’s 200 million Muslims — something he denies.

People in northeast India object for different reasons, fearing that large …

Hong Kong Set For Fresh Weekend Protests

November 29, 2019 4:34 pm

Hong Kong police on Friday ended their two-week siege of a university campus that became a battleground with pro-democracy protesters, as activists vowed to hold fresh rallies and strikes in the coming days.

Renewed calls to hit the streets came after Beijing and city leader Carrie Lam refused further political concessions despite a landslide victory for pro-democracy parties in local elections last weekend.

Sunday’s district council polls delivered a stinging rebuke to the financial hub’s pro-Beijing establishment and undermined their argument that a silent majority were tired of the nearly six months of increasingly violent protests.

AFP /Hong Kong
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Iraq PM Says Will Resign After Bloody Protests

November 29, 2019 4:28 pm

Iraq’s embattled premier announced Friday he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country’s top cleric, as renewed violence added to a soaring death toll in two months of anti-government protests.

Adel Abdel Mahdi’s written statement was greeted with cheers and blaring music across Baghdad’s iconic Tahrir Square, where demonstrators have massed since early October against a ruling class deemed corrupt and in hock to foreign powers.

“I will submit to the esteemed parliament a formal letter requesting my resignation from the premiership,” Abdel Mahdi wrote, hours after Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani used his weekly sermon to urge …

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UN ‘Alarmed’ Dozens May Be Dead In Iran Protests

November 19, 2019 4:53 pm

The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at reports dozens may have been killed in Iranian demonstrations, as the Islamic republic said it would unblock the internet only once calm has been restored.

Amnesty International said more than 100 demonstrators were believed to have been killed across Iran in five days since security forces were ordered to “crush” the protests triggered by fuel price rises.

Iran’s economy has been battered since May last year when the United States unilaterally withdrew from a 2015 nuclear agreement and reimposed crippling sanctions.

Iran’s shock decision to increase fuel prices Friday sparked the protests in …

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