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Protesters, police clash again at IMF
İstanbul :: Turkey | about 1 month ago
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Riot police and protesters clashed Wednesday outside a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Istanbul, witnesses said. In a second day of protests, about 2,000 demonstrators were gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square when riot police...
Tags: riot police, Istanbul
Pittsburgh Is Burning [Protest]
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Protesters at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh have been met my an overwhelming and thoroughly militarized police response. Here's a video gallery of some on-the-ground confrontations yesterday and overnight. Protesters at events like these are in many cases...
Tags: Pittsburgh, riot police, g20 summit
Cambodia deploys police for Thai border protest
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 2 months ago
Credibility Cambodia deployed riot police Thursday at an ancient temple on the disputed border with Thailand where Thai protesters are due to hold a protest at the weekend, the defence ministry said. Thailand's royalist "Yellow Shirt" movement says it will rally...
Tags: Cambodian Khmer Rouge, riot police, Thailand, disputed border, crimes tribunal, war crimes, Cambodia, Phnom Pénh
Rightwingers and anti-fascists riot
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Riot police were struggling to contain protests by anti-fascist demonstrators and rightwing organisations outside a mosque in north-west London tonight. Officers were hit by bricks and bottles as they tried to keep about 1,000 rival demonstrators apart...
Tags: North London, london mosque, harrow central, central mosque, riot police, Muslim, Europe, islamization demonstration, protesters outside, stop islamification
Russia police detain anti-Kremlin protesters
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility Russian riot police detained an opposition leader and dozens of anti-Kremlin activists for trying to hold an unsanctioned rally in central Moscow on Friday. Hundreds of police officers surrounded Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square and forced 20 activists and...
Tags: Vladimir Putin, Moscow, minister vladimir, Russian, prime minister, South Africa, central moscow, police detained, Bjorn Again, riot police
SKorean riot police enter Ssangyong factory
Seoul :: South Korea | 4 months ago
Credibility South Korean riot police entered Ssangyong Motor's only factory Monday where hundreds of fired workers, some armed with slingshots, have been occupying part of the facility for two months. Production at Ssangyong Motor Co., South Korea's fifth-largest...
Tags: South Korean, Ssangyong Motor Co., riot police, fired workers, enter ssangyong, ssangyong factory, police enter
Myanmar detains dozens of opposition members
Yangon :: Myanmar | 4 months ago
Credibility Authorities in military-run Myanmar detained dozens of opposition party members on Sunday as they returned from ceremonies marking the death of the father of jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said. The arrests came after riot police...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, opposition party, detains dozens, myanmar detains, tight security, riot police, leader aung
Chaos stops Zimbabwe constitution conference
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 4 months ago
Credibility PF party booed and threw bottles of water at each other before riot police moved in to drive them out of the conference venue.
Tags: mugabe, Zimbabwean, Robert Mugabe, president robert, Harare International Conference, riot police, revolutionary songs, Morgan Tsvangirai
Riot police break up sit-in protest
Seoul :: South Korea | 4 months ago
Credibility Hundreds of riot police broke up a weeks-long sit-in strike Friday at the ailing Ssangyong Motor Co. plant south of Seoul, police said. The protest centered on the company's massive layoffs plan, officials said. Some 500 police with helmets and plastic...
Tags: Ssangyong Motor Co., Seoul, riot police
Shocking Images from the Iran Protest Violence, Courtesy of YouTube and Twitter.
Warning: Some of these images are graphic in nature. Please use your discretion. The country of Iran is at a crossroads. Its enormous young population has become increasingly at odds with its Supreme Leader and an all-powerful but ultraconservative Guardian...
Tags: iran elections, iran, tehran, protests, youtube, twitter, violence, photos, videos, mousavi, ahmadinejad, attacks, basiji, riot police, middle east, politics
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