protests and demonstrations

Thousands of supporters of the Thai royalist group Pitak Siam attend an anti-government rally in Bangkok.

Bahrain on Tuesday banned all protests and public gatherings after protesters clashed with police in recent weeks.

Russian protest leader Sergei Udaltsov was detained on Wednesday by Russian authorities for questioning

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A fact-finding team has slammed Indian administration in the state of Tamil Nadu for manhandling peaceful anti-nuclear protesters at Idinthakarai.

As many as 6,000 demonstrated Tuesday in Madrid’s Neptune Plaza in an attempt to pressure the government over austerity measures.

Muslim protesters gathered Saturday in Sydney to express anger over the amateur film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad and has incited violent protests in the Muslim world.

The recent anti-Japan protests in China may have been organized or helped along by a political faction in the Communist Party that wishes to gain a stronger hand at the Party’s negotiating table.

Some Chinese have began harassing Japanese people in China, or sabotaging and even destroying Japanese-made automobiles, as a way of protesting against the country’s actions surrounding the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

The desperate fight by locals to stop India’s newest nuclear power plant from going operational is reaching a tense crescendo.

After sitting chin deep in water for 17 days, villagers in central India succeeded on Sept. 10 in forcing authorities to reverse the recent increase in dam water threatening to submerge their land.

On Saturday, nature’s defenders won a small victory on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.

Mass anti-Japan protests took place in more than 10 cities across China recently. The demonstrators were incensed over the recent dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands.

Thousands demonstrated in several cities in China, calling for a boycott of all Japanese products, burning Japanese flags, and damaging Japanese restaurants and vehicles after Tokyo last week deported 14 Chinese activists who landed on a disputed island in the East China Sea.

Over 2,000 villagers in Jiangsu Province on April 13 flooded the streets to protest against high-voltage cables being constructed.

Desperate to head off the construction of a large coal-fired power plant in their area, residents of Ledong County of the island Hainan Province have been protesting for a month.

Greek police and protesters clashed in Athens just a few hours after a pensioner killed himself outside of the parliament building.

On a cold and extremely windy March 3, things heated up in front of Cornwall Community Hospital as about 100 people rallied to ask for an assessment of what they perceive as the hospital’s unfair hiring practices.

The Occupy London protest camp has been cleared from outside St Paul’s Cathedral after a four-month occupation.