University of Cape Town (UCT) students, for the most part, want monuments and symbols reminiscent of South Africa’s colonial and Apartheid past removed. This follows an incident on Monday during a protest where human excrement was thrown at the feet of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, to some a[…]
Hundreds of foreign construction workers have staged a rare public protest outside Dubai Mall in a pay dispute with their company, according to witnesses. Authorities deployed riot police on Tuesday to the city’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, where the world’s tallest building is located, blocking some roads while negotiators[…]
Hundreds of Myanmar police and hired thugs charged at students protesting a new education law on Tuesday, pummeling them with batons and then dragging them into trucks, ending a weeklong standoff. Witnesses said many of the demonstrators suffered injuries, some to the head. Police also chased after journalists, scattering them.[…]
Police used stun grenades to disperse a crowd of protesting school pupils outside the Western Cape education department’s offices on Friday, they confirmed. “[Police] members were met with resistance from the learners. Police started to used stun grenades in an attempt to defuse the situation,” Captain FC van Wyk said.[…]
While protests are ongoing, media liaison at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Thami Nkwanyane claims that management are performing their duties by informing students and staff about the unrest at it’s Bellville campus. Students are reportedly demanding registration without the payment of tuition fees. “As a University we[…]
A Swedish offshoot of the German Islamophobic movement Pegida on Monday evening held its first protest in the Scandinavian country, but was vastly outnumbered by counter demonstrators. The rally in the southern city of Malmo attracted about 100 supporters, while police estimated that the counter demonstrators numbered around 4,000. Reporters at[…]
Images of a slain protester, blood running down her face and hair as her body was lifted from the ground, have touched off powerful criticism of Egypt’s government on the anniversary of a revolution initially sparked by police brutality. The photos and videos show a heavily armed police unit, with[…]
An anti-Islam demonstration modelled on recent protests in Germany is planned for Monday in the Norwegian capital Oslo, organizers said, but few protesters were expected to turn out. The protest is aimed at “Muslim immigration and the influence of Islam,” the movement known as Pegida, which was formed in Germany[…]
A record 18,000 people have turned out for an anti-immigrant rally by a right-wing populist movement in eastern German city of Desden, prompting thousands to join counter-demonstrations in several cities. The movement that began with just a few hundred in October against percieved “Islamisation of Europe” drew huge crowds on[…]
The Action Forum in support of Palestine has vowed to press ahead with its campaign of protesting outside the stores of local retailer Woolworths, despite the arrest of four of its members at a picket at the Cavendish Square branch over the weekend. Charges against the protesters were dropped on[…]
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