Tag: Protesters

France was swept up Thursday in the wave of anger washing over the Muslim world as protesters in Afghanistan and Iran denounced a magazine’s...

Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of more than 2,000 protesters trying to reach the US consulate in Peshawar on Tuesday, as...

Police in New York on Monday arrested at least a dozen demonstrators marking the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, witnesses said....

Dozens of protesters on Saturday demonstrated outside the Capital Police Officer’s compound against the police’s inability to arrest a hospital owner who “brutally killed”...

Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak, who was convicted over the death of protesters, was on Monday heading back to prison from a military hospital after...

Syrian troops opened fired on democracy activists on Friday who took to the streets across the country demanding regime change, monitors said, as armed...

Protesters returned to the streets of Myanmar’s main city Yangon for a second day on Wednesday, defying a police request to disperse as they...

Some 20,000 people joined a march through the centre of the German financial capital of Frankfurt Saturday, protesting against European austerity programmes, police said....

Unidentified attackers set ablaze four trailer trucks belonging to the National Logistics Cell (NLC) on Friday, as the All Pakistan Oil Tanker Owners’ Association...

Relatives of Asif Gujjar, shot dead by Lytton Road Police in an alleged encounter, pelted a police team led by SP Iqbal Town Abdul...

Police on Thursday fired tear gas and beat demonstrators who staged a protest in Nigeria’s main northern city against soaring fuel prices, organisers of...

The capital police Friday resorted to baton-charge and teargas shelling to disperse the protesters who were staging a demonstration against gas outages and had...

Syrian military commanders have ordered troops to indiscriminately shoot at unarmed protesters, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday based on interviews...

Anti-Wall Street protesters, seeking a new focus as cities across the country shut down two-month old Occupy encampments, launched a new wave of activism...

Protesters brought their message about alleged economic unfairness to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, sitting in or outside several Senate and House offices. Anti-Wall Street...

Police arrested 31 protesters late Sunday at an anti-Wall Street encampment in Washington and tore down the wooden shelter that activists had illegally erected...

Occupy movements plan to shut down major ports along the US West Coast and Canada’s Pacific seaboard in a day of action next month,...