#Protests

Protests broke in restive southeastern Iran on Friday, with demonstrators attacking banks, state media reported, as a senior cleric called for tough measures against demonstrators across the country. The Islamic ...

Iranians enraged over the death of a young woman in police custody braved bullets and tear gas on Saturday, a human rights group said, pressing ahead with protests against clerical ...

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki A young woman’s death in custody in Iran on September 16 has sparked nationwide protests. Mahsa Amini’s fatal injuries resulted from an ...

By Special Correspondent The killing of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s ‘morality police’ on September 16 has triggered a massive wave of national protest ...

State-organised demonstrations took place in several Iranian cities on Friday to counter anti-government unrest triggered by the death of a woman in police custody, with marchers calling for the execution ...

Iran has curbed access to Meta Platforms’ META.O Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the country, amid protests over the death of a woman ...

Protests broke out in western Iran on Saturday at the funeral of a young woman who died after being detained by morality police enforcing strict hijab rules, as security forces ...

Rival Iraqi factions took to the streets of Baghdad on Friday to call for a new government, with supporters of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demanding early elections and his ...

Ukrainians of all ages protested in Limassol and Paphos on Friday, as part of a series of anti-war demonstrations in solidarity with Ukraine after Russian troops invaded and attacked the ...

Teachers’ and parents’ associations on Tuesday condemned threats against educators as some parents continued to protest against Covid measures for schoolchildren, with one arrest made in Limassol. Protests began on ...

Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters drove a convoy of cars and motorcycles through the capital of Bangkok on Tuesday, amid rising anger over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by ...

Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) have called on people in Cyprus to refrain from staging mass protests in the coming ...

India’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom’s high commissioner over what it called “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” of Indian agricultural reforms in the ...

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab threatened on Saturday to stop performing his duties to pressure politicians to form a new government, citing an incident in which shoppers fought ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved legislation on Wednesday beefing up fines for offences committed during street protests after thousands were detained at unsanctioned rallies in support of Kremlin critic Alexei ...

Hundreds of officers will be deployed in Nicosia and Limassol on Saturday to oversee protests considered high-risk following trouble during a demonstration in the capital last week where police were ...

Turkish Cypriots on Friday expressed their solidarity with Greek Cypriots fighting against police violence and corruption. In a video published on social media, Turkish Cypriots and others living in the ...

The fallout from Saturday’s protest – with footage of police violence shocking many observers – has engulfed the local political landscape but has also drawn an unusual amount of international scrutiny. ...

A second protest march against state authoritarianism has been announced for next Saturday, following scenes of police brutality in their efforts to disperse protesters at last weekend’s demonstration. “The ...