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April 9, 2018

Support for Bahraini human rights defender on seventh anniversary of his arrest

On Monday 9 April 2018, human rights organisations, friends, and supporters of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja will join his daughters to protest at the Bahraini Embassy in London.
March 14, 2018

Honduras election protests met with excessive and lethal force, says UN

Members of the Honduran security forces used excessive force to control and disperse protests following last year’s disputed presidential election, says the UN.
February 7, 2018

Visist of Saudi Crown Prince will 'be met with protests'

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, will visit the UK on 7- 9 March.
February 25, 2017

Boris Johnson urged to call for end to mass death sentences in Egypt

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, is in Egypt this weekend for talks with the President and Foreign Minister, according to reports.The visit comes amid concerns over abuses in Egypt, including torture and the use of the death penalty in mass trials of people who were arrested in connection to protests.
December 1, 2013

Freedom of assembly crushed in Ukraine

The violent dispersal of demonstrators on Independence Square (Maidan) in the centre of Kyiv shows a shameful disregard for peoples right to peacefully protest, says Amnesty.
August 11, 2013

Making sense of the new unrest

From anti-neoliberal protests around globalisation through to the Occupy movement, environmental direct action and mass anti-austerity demonstrations, there has been an explosion of grassroots activism that has moved in tandem with the wave of crises facing western-driven free market capitalism since 2008.
August 3, 2013

Czech authorities asked to protect Roma from hostile protestors

The Czech authorities have been told to protect Roma communities from violence and intimidation, ahead of planned racist demonstrations.
June 17, 2013

Turkey told to end incommunicado detention of Istanbul protesters

Police in Turkey have been refusing to acknowledge that they have been holding people in custody following mass detentions carried out across Istanbul.
January 13, 2013

Anti-drone and Guantanamo protesters block CIA headquarters

Some one hundred protesters against United States drone strikes and 'enhanced interrogations' have blocked the entrance to the CIA headquarters.
December 10, 2010

Royals, protestors and equal worth

It is interesting to note how much UK media attention, following protests against student fee rises yesterday (9 December 2010), has focused on the admittedly alarming experience of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla when the car they were travelling in was damaged - compared to the life-threatening ordeal of Alfie Meadows.