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... the right to protest set forth by the constitutional (specifically Law No. 4 of 24 January 1969 “organizing public meetings and processions and demonstrations and gatherings,” particularly the chapters ...
... these demonstrations, both local and national, have followed the same scheme of the NBD: they were auto-organized through the web; no politician was allowed to make speeches from the stage; and the focus ...
... rent boycotts and demonstrations proliferated. People often refer to "the miracle" of South Africa. If courageous leadership, committed citizens, a willingness to embrace forgiveness and reconciliation, ...
... understand why the Interior Ministry had been lenient with pro-reform activists involved in recent demonstrations.  He said there was no need for law enforcement officials to use water cannons to ...
... demonstrations that erupted in Kyrgyzstan. Protesters accused President Askar Akaev and his family of heading a corrupt and nepotistic government that did not represent the people. The so called ...
... Popovic and his cohorts of being terrorists and agents of the United States. On October 5, 2000, massive demonstrations swept through Serbia (pdf), and Milosevic stepped down. After that, Popovic won a ...
... last week. Moussa Dembele of the opposition RDR party said the protest took place in Gagnoa, about 200km northwest of Abidjan, the country's economic capital. Demonstrations spread to at least eight cities ...
... uranium. Mr Ahmadinejad told the crowds Iran was now a "nuclear state" and would soon treble output of 20% enriched uranium. The opposition tried to stage counter-demonstrations, but faced a big security ...
... Boos may find himself in hot water with the Kremlin. "In Moscow, demonstrations are dispersed by OMON (anti-riot police) but we have not done it," Kommersant daily quoted Tuesday an unidentified official ...
... been happening inside Iran. The government has also arrested dozens of student leaders in Tehran and across the country in the past weeks. However, students continued to say they would hold demonstrations ...
11. Iranians rally against leaders
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TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces and paramilitary groups broke up anti-government demonstrations in central Tehran on Monday, using clubs, tear gas and electric batons to disperse crowds outside the University ...
Thousands of riot police and Revolutionary Guards in Iran have surrounded Tehran University to prevent student demonstrations. Pro-government militia members armed with tear gas and firearms have been ...
... in solidarity with the demonstrations that will be happening across West Papua. Following this we will make our way down the road to Westminster where we will be meeting with MPs and delivering a copy ...
... triggered a series of mass demonstrations. On November 25, 800,000 protesters poured on to Prague's streets in defiance of the government. Two days later, after a general strike, the government resigned ...
TEHRAN -- Five months after a disputed presidential election spawned the largest anti-government demonstrations here in three decades, Iran's opposition movement appears rudderless and divided, with protesters ...
... Ministry that respond directly to the Executive Branch. Now, for example, the Public Ministry denounces certain individuals who participate in peaceful demonstrations and accuses them of sedition.  ...
... repression of demonstrations, imprisonment of political dissidents and the further use of torture during interrogations. It was only after this increase in the level of state brutality that the Tupamaros ...
... informal bottom-up syndicate of students, workers and intellectuals whose meetings and broadsheets and courageous demonstrations in Leibzig, Dresden and Berlin softened up the East German regime and put ...
19. The Movement Awakened
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... and martyred three students. For students, who are not able to stage rallies and demonstrations under regular conditions, these two days are nothing less than two historic opportunities to express their ...
... process of democratization. Activism and demonstrations in authoritarian Egypt In Khaled Al Khamissi’s wildly popular Taxi, the author relates a conversation with a cab driver who ridicules the size ...
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Monks in tears cry out against lies while Beijing instructs foreign journalists » Lhasa (AsiaNews) – A group of Buddhist monks blocked a tour of 26 foreign journalists in Lhasa, led by the Chinese government, crying out that there is no freedom in Tibet and that the Dalai Lama is not responsible for the recent violence there.  Some of them after having cried “Tibet is not free! Tibet is not free!”, broke down in tears.The surprise encounter occurred this morning while the group of journalists visited the Jokhang Temple. The monks interrupted the temples’ chief administrators ...
Iran protest, 20 Sep 2009, Stockholm » Sergels torg in central Stockholm was sealed off on Sunday afternoon as rival demonstrators clashed. A demonstration began on the square at around midday to protest against the regime in Iran. At around 2pm a further demonstration began directed against Israel and the two groups clashed in a war of words. "We have had to seal off the square and have to keep the groups apart, there is a tense atmosphere and a lot of verbal abuse being hurled at each other," Kjell Lindgren at Stockholm police told...
Pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Honduras » On June 28, the Honduran army overthrew the democratically elected government of left-wing president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and bundled him onto an airplane into exile in Costa Rica. This action, in spite of being given a constitutional veneer, was not accepted by workers and poor farmers in Honduras, who constitute Zelaya's support base, or by the international community. The Organization of American States, the United Nations General Assembly, the European Union and other international organizati...
GuChuSum Tibetan political prisoner’s association » What is Gu Chu Sum?The Gu-Chu-Sum (9-10-3) Movement of Tibet was established on September 27, 1991 in Dharamsala, India by ex-political prisoners of the Tibetan freedom movement. Initially organised by monks, nuns, and lay people, the Gu-Chu-Sum Movement grew out of the earnest, heartfelt wish to help the suffering Tibetans remaining in prisons in Tibet and to provide needed support to ex-political prisoners who have journeyed into exile. Gu-Chu-Sum is endorsed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, th...
An Analytical Overview of the Application of Gene Sharp’s Theory of Nonviolent Action in Milosevic’s » AuthorSrdja PopovicNarodni Pokret Otpor (People’s Resistance Movement)Publication DateJanuary 31, 2001Summary In this document, Srdja Popovic, an organiser in the Serbian youth resistance movement, Otpor, analyses the use of nonviolent action to enlist civil society in participation in the overthrow - by democratic election - of the 13 year-long reign of President Slobodan Milosovic in 2000. This 9-page essay considers the role of Gene Sharps’ strategic model for nonviolent action and Otpor’s a...
Hunger Strikers Press for Iraq’s Release of Iranian Exiles » WASHINGTON — Wednesday was the 50th day of their hunger strike, but Hamid Goudarzi, 26, and his fellow Iranian-immigrant protesters here swore they would never give up.Two Iranian immigrants, Reza Haghelahi, left, and Khalil Parsae, are part of a hunger strike outside the White House. “I’m getting weaker every day,” said Mr. Goudarzi, who gave up his job in San Antonio to join the protest. “But I’m here to the end.”He is among two dozen hunger strikers encamped a stone’s throw from the White Hou...
Burma Junta Up to Old Tricks, Say Observers » BANGKOK, Sep 23 (IPS) - Having released more than 7,000 prisoners in the last few days as part of the preparations for next year's planned polls, Burma's military rulers are up to their old tricks, according to Burmese activists and human rights groups. Most of those released are petty criminals, although around 200 political prisoners are among the freed. Many analysts believe these releases are intended to increase the credibility of next year's multi-party elections – the first in 20 years. B...
Give Peace A Chance---Tacoma Police Riot » In March 2007, high-profile protests were focused on the Port of Tacoma, in Tacoma, Washington, USA. The protests, which lasted for 11 days, centered around a shipment of Stryker vehicles belonging to the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which were scheduled to ship through the Port of Tacoma to the Iraq War. During the protests, members of Port Militarization Resistance tried to obstruct the shipping operations. A total of 37 protesters were arrested. The military has y...
Na'lin: full economic and political boycott, along with continued resistance, could end occupation » Ramallah / PNN - Hundreds of people took part in Friday prayers in the threatened village of Na’lin. Thousands of dunams have already been confiscated for the Wall and settlements in the area.Leading yesterday’s service was Sheikh Salah Al Khawaja who said that the prayer and ensuing demonstration were not only part of the continuing struggle in Na’lin, but were also being held in solidarity with Jerusalem. He called for full participation in the ongoing campaign to stop the conversion of the ci...
Honduras Longest Peaceful Protest » HAVANA TIMES, Sept.20 (IPS) - Shaded from the blazing sun by his straw sombrero, one of the principal leaders of the National Front Against the Coup d’état in Honduras declared, “The only solution to the political crisis is the return of Manuel Zelaya to the presidency before September 30.”“But this also requires the formation of a national constituent assembly to ratify a new Constitution to allow Honduras to be restructured as a progressive Central American nation,” added Rafael Alegría, leade...