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Iran police clash with protesters
Tehrān :: Iran | 2 days ago
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Despite a heavy police presence in and around Tehran, demonstrators took to the streets on Monday to protest Iran's regime as the country marked a key national anniversary. Ordinarily, Students Day has been an annual observance of national pride, when...
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Police surround Tehran university protesters
Tehrān :: Iran | 2 days ago
Credibility Thousands of riot police and Revolutionary Guard members armed with tear gas, batons and firearms were deployed outside Tehran University today to prevent student demonstrations backed by the opposition. The large security operation suggested that authorities...
Tags: Tehran University, University of Tehran, tear gas, security forces, Iran, preventing protesters, police fired, foreign media, students demonstrator, fired tear, Tehrān, Politics, Iranian presidential election, Protests, Iranian election protests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, War Conflict, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian Azeris, Basij, Student activism, Political riots, Ali Khamenei, Death of Neda Agha-Soltan, Pahlavi dynasty, Demonstration, Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini, Reza, Community organizing
Shots fired after bribe demand refused: refugee
Tanjung Pinang :: Indonesia | 23 days ago
Credibility Indonesian authorities opened fire on a boat full of Afghan refugees, wounding two people, after demanding a bribe the Afghans could not afford to pay, one of the refugees says. His account is at odds with that of Indonesian authorities, who said they...
Tags: Indonesian, coast guard, Kupang, police fired, Bayu Herlambang, Indonesia, Tanjung Pinang, Afghan refugees, East Nusa Tenggara, Refugee
Delivery protest turns violent
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility At least 20 people, including a policeman, were injured on Thursday when a protest by Diepsloot residents turned violent, Pretoria police said. "A crowd of about 100 started throwing stones, blocked off streets and became really violent," said Inspector...
Tags: turned violent, South Africa, police fired, rubber bullets, protesters turned, Johannesburg, fired rubber, Standerton, diepsloot residents
Service-delivery protest flares in Standerton
Standerton :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility Thousands of protesters took to the streets of several South African townships on Tuesday, demanding improved infrastructure for sanitation, electricity and housing, media reported. Talk Radio 702 said protesters in the Standerton township of the north-eastern...
Tags: South African, Jacob Zuma, Standerton, municipal office, police fired, Sakhile
Thokoza flares up
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 4 months ago
Credibility Police fired rubber bullets at about 200 protesters who stoned police cars and blocked streets today. Police Captain Godfrey Maditsi said the protesters marched to the Thokoza municipality in the east of Johannesburg at about 8.30 am, but found it was...
Tags: rubber bullets, Thokoza, fired rubber, municipality office, Godfrey Maditsi, municipality workers, police fired, South Africa
South Africans protest living conditions
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 4 months ago
Credibility A spate of protests across South Africa turned violent Wednesday after angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding improved services, housing and employment. Protesters outside Johannesburg blocked a major highway and threw stones at cars.
Tags: Mpumalanga, rubber bullets, South African, Johannesburg, Jacob Zuma, police fired, fired rubber
AllAfrica.com: Du Noon Community Causes Child Welfare Office to Close
Lyman :: WY :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Du Noon Community Causes Child Welfare Office to Close Peter Luhanga 15 July 2009 Three months after it opened a new office in Du Noon, Cape Town Child Welfare last week suspended its services in the township due to tensions between residents and the...
Tags: fired rubber, police fired, rubber bullets
Cars, buildings burned in French suburb
Firminy :: France | 5 months ago
Credibility Police fired tear gas at rioters hurling stones and torching cars, firefighters said Friday, in a third night of unrest in a central French town over the death of a local inmate. The rioters threw projectiles at police and firefighters and trashed police...
Tags: French, Firminy, police fired, tear gas
Pro-Mousavi protesters roughed up
Tehrān :: Iran | 5 months ago
Credibility TEHRAN: Iranian police resorted to aerial firing and tear gas to disperse about 250 pro-reform protesters on Thursday who were marking the 10th anniversary of an attack on Tehran University's student dormitory by hardline Basij militia, a witness said....
Tags: Iranian, Tehran University, security forces, tear gas, using tear, Mir Hossein Mousavi, police fired, 10th anniversary
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