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Hundreds of demonstrators marched through Madrid late on Saturday. The unauthorized rally was met by a large police force who blocked the protesters from advancing towards the center of the city. While local media estimated that there were 300 people there, footage from the scene suggests the numbers were higher. …

Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was an “inherently difficult challenge” in balancing people’s desire to protest and share their grievances with the need to control the pandemic.  “The thorny issue is how we allow peaceful protest expressing our concern with something as terrible as the Sarah …

The event was not marred by any major incident, the police said, with the officers present at the scene primarily focused on checking that participants were properly masked.  Another large protest was held in the southwestern city of Stuttgart, with hundreds marching through the streets to decry the restrictions. The …

The warning from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) came in a report commissioned by the Home Secretary after 2020 saw protests from a number of groups on the streets of the UK.  The report examined how police handled the protests – including how they engaged with activists on the …

Polling nearly 1,800 people in the last week of February, the Harvard/Harris survey found 55 percent of respondents were “more concerned” with violence in US cities – specifically over the summer of 2020, when many turned to rioting and violence – than with the riot at the US Capitol, while …

Sunday became the bloodiest day of protests that have been ongoing since early February, when the army arrested the democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, over claims of election fraud.  “Police and military forces have confronted peaceful demonstrations, using lethal force and less-than-lethal force that – according to credible …

Scuffles between dozens of left-wing protesters and law enforcement erupted in central Athens on Friday. Footage from the scene shows the police and the angry crowd engaging in a shoving match at a metro station entrance. The authorities deployed irritant gases as they tried to push the protesters into the …

Protesters in Rochester scaled police barricades as they marched down the city streets on Tuesday, venting anger at the grand jury, which effectively exonerated officers who played a role in Prude’s death last March. Demonstrators, some carrying Black Lives Matter flags, chanted “Say his name, Daniel Prude.”  Part of the …

Footage posted online showed protesters fighting with Lebanese security services outside a military court in the capital on Monday after judges ruled that six demonstrators in Tripoli had committed “terrorism and theft.” Some 30 people have been arrested in the city of Tripoli in recent weeks after attending demonstrations against …

“I must admit that we have lost the streets,” Tikhanovskaya, who currently resides in Lithuania, told Swiss magazine Le Temps on Friday. “We don’t have the means to combat the regime’s violence against the protesters. They have the weapons, they have the force, so yes, for the moment, it seems …