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... safety and security. They also burned an effigy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Last month, the U.N. chief appointed a three-member panel to advise him on whether any human-rights abuses ...
... black headbands also burned an effigy representing Dow Chemical. Up to 10,000 people died over three days when a storage tank at a pesticide plant run by US group Union Carbide -- purchased by Dow Chemical ...
... Czechs waited in silence to put candles on the spot where, in 1969, Jan Palach, a 21-year-old student, burned himself alive in protest at the 1968 Soviet invasion. For those who took part in the demonstration ...
... campus at the National Autonomous University.   However the desperation for change is apparent as an effigy of de facto President Roberto Micheletti is burned and the symbols of fascism are sent ...
... Buddhist monks and the police reportedly clashed in Aba County in Sichuan Province. A crowd of about 200 Tibetan protesters burned a local police station, according to news agency reports. One witness ...
... mismanagement and has demanded the president's resignation. Rajoelina has gone as far as declaring himself president and establishing a parallel government. Last month, opposition protestors burned down ...
... largest embassies in Burma that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned." The diplomat also said that three monasteries were raided yesterday afternoon and are ...
... after dark showing flames raging from burned-out vehicles and hordes of angry protesters overturning cars. Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress, cited eyewitness reports ...
... to mark the annual state of the nation address. Many burned effigies -- a common practice in the Philippines -- of Ms. Arroyo, and warned that civil unrest could follow if the 62-year-old president doesn't ...
10. Suicide protest in Vietnam
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The authorities in Vietnam have confirmed that a badly burned body has been found in a park in the central coastal city of Danang. The Paris-based Buddhist Information Bureau says it was that of a man ...
11. Serbs protest over Kosovo
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... control. This was in stark contrast to events Thursday in Belgrade, where Serbs tried to torch the U.S. embassy, burned flags, looted stores and clashed with police. The Toronto protest was also a departure ...
... “advised” not to move about alone for security reasons – visited a clinic which was attacked during the violence as well as a burned shop, where 5 Chinese girls lost their lives.  In precedence the journalists ...
... works. Sections of road are being dug up and replaced where cars were burnt during the March 14 protests leaving burned tarmac. Sidewalks on Beijing Road are being repaved as well after protesters used ...
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Hero of Iran » Ahmad Batebi (born 1977 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian student who has been imprisoned since the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999. During the protests in the areas surrounding Tehran University, Batebi held up a bloodied shirt belonging to a fellow student who had been beaten by the Basij paramilitaries. The image, pictured right, spread quickly and ended up on the cover of The Economist magazine.
Zimbabwe media 'still not free' » As the BBC prepares to broadcast a day of programmes from Zimbabwe for the first time since officials lifted a ban on foreign reporters, Zimbabwean journalist Brian Hungwe says he and his colleagues are still concerned about restrictions.Two months after the formation of Zimbabwe's unity government a privately owned daily newspaper called NewsDay interviewed and recruited staff, preparing for its imminent launch. That was six months ago, but the paper has not yet printed its first edition. Its p...
Iran's Ahmadinejad urges prosecution of opposition leaders » Reporting from Beirut - Iran's hard-line president Friday demanded the prosecution of top opposition leaders, raising the political temperature anew just a day and a half after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sought to cool tensions in a conciliatory speech.Meanwhile, the United Nations' atomic monitoring agency delivered a quarterly assessment of Iran's controversial nuclear program, reporting that the Islamic Republic had granted inspectors access to sensitive research sites but has cont...
Non Violent Demonstration south of Bethlehem » On April 27th, 2007 Holy Land Trust in cooperation with the Popular Committee against the Wall in the South of Bethlehem Villages held their weekly nonviolent demonstration. A mass demonstration was organized against the Annexation Wall around the settlements of Gush Etzion and Efrata. Residents of all areas affected by the wall – starting from Beit-Jala, Al- Walaja and Battir in the North of Bethlehem to Umm Salamoneh, Beit Ummar, Surif and Al-Jab'a in the South of Bethleh...
Assault and Detention of Protestors against Banning of Etemad Melli Paper » Although Mehdi Karobi has announced that a gathering in support of Etemad Melli will not be held in front of the paper’s building on Monday, August 17, Karimkhan Zand Street, where the building is located, was filled with security forces dressed in uniforms who arrogantly resorted to using verbal abuse and assault to discourage any gathering. According to eyewitnesses, at around 6:00 PM security guards stationed themselves should-to-shoulder around the paper’s building, and a short distance awa...
South Africa: Price Rise Protest » Thousands of striking South African workers brought mines and businesses to a halt yesterday across four provinces to protest against a jump in electricity, food and fuel prices."We are definitely saying we are tired of all this price fixing, price increases. All we want is stabilization in the pricing of all forms of commodities." The one-day walkout is part of a series of rolling strikes to protest against rising inflation, high interest rates and job cuts after a power crisis engulfed the cou...
Naked protest by “400 Pueblos” over land eviction » In the Mexican state of Veracruz prized for oil and agriculture and beautiful beaches, at about four o’clock on a 1992 morning, hundreds of campesinos and their families in three pueblos were shaken awake by rumbling. Some were too startled to move. Others ran out of their wood and cardboard shacks and saw caterpillars grinding toward them and waved at the drivers to stop. The drivers and their armed and uniformed escorts motioned and yelled for everyone to clear out. The c...
Iran Lawyer Seeks Cash To Spare Young On Death Row » TEHRAN (Reuters) -- An Iranian human rights lawyer has launched an appeal for money to help avert the executions of juvenile offenders in the Islamic republic, saying $200,000 could spare the lives of four young people now on death row.Under Iran's Islamic law, Shari'a, the family of a murder victim can pardon the convicted killer in exchange for financial compensation, so-called blood money, although they can also refuse it and demand the death penalty. For most people in Iran it would be diffi...
Budget Cut Rally » Students, faculty, and other members of the community joined together to show their support for education and their disagreements with Governor Jim Gibbons.  
In Nicaragua, tensions flare amid power quest » MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- The scene outside the U.S. Embassy last week illustrated fraying tensions in this capital where the Sandinista government has been maneuvering for reelection: Agitated pro-government youths hurled fireworks, rocks and eggs at the embassy grounds and shouted ``Death to the Yankees! Death to the empire!'' The following day, a Sandinista mob surrounded a university campus where U.S. Ambassador Robert Callahan was attending a cultural festival, forcing him to flee with the help...