Latest in Tag: protest Highlight
Latest in Tag: protest
GUC referendum held despite violence
Ballot boxes attacked by university security
Tens of thousands protest anti-Islam film in Nigeria
(AFP) –KANO, Nigeria — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday protested on the streets of Nigeria’s second city of Kano against an anti-Islam film made in the US that has stirred outrage across the Muslim world. An AFP reporter said the crowd of demonstrators stretched several kilometres through the city, the largest in Nigeria’s …
AUC shuts down campus
Striking students lock down campus, demanding tuition relief
Women’s revolution in the Middle East could be sooner than expected
Saudi women allowed to travel within Gulf without guardians’ approval, while Iranian woman beats Muslim cleric for criticising her outfit
New leftist coalition announced
Leftist parties and movements form Revolutionary Democratic Coalition
Georgia prison scandal highlights widespread torture
Georgia’s president vows to eradicate torture after videos depicting rape and torture in a Georgian prison spark anger and protest
South African Lonmin miners end their strike
Police disperse Amplats miners’ protest
Protester’s mother call for release of injured son
Protest call for student detained since January with serious leg wound
Demonstrations erupt in Tahrir square
Demonstrators refuse the removal of graffiti paintings
Germany wrestles with ban on anti-Islam film screening
German authorities will make efforts at banning showing the film
Nile University sit-in resumes outside campus
Nile University protesters joined by different political movements in off-campus protest
Protesters arrested on anniversary of OWS
100 protesters march with $100 bills taped to their mouths, demanding money doesn’t interfere with politics
Anti-Japanese protests continue across China
Territorial dispute over uninhabited islands reignites old tensions as anti-Japanese protests shut down major Japanese companies in China
Two suspects connected to MFO attack arrested
Books with “radical ideas,” laptop, wireless device, and license plates for stolen cars were found with the suspects
Human Rights Corner: When reason fails, who pays the price?
The film and the events that followed have opened up several issues worth contemplating and debating
Protest for sexual harassment victim
Assuit University students hold protest for girl shot dead for standing up to her harasser
Transport strikes escalate as educations strikes continue
Transport workers escalate their strike after spokesperson of their union was arrested
Nile University sit-in broken up
Security forces violently clear Nile University campus of protesters
Twitter hands over Occupy posts
As Twitter becomes ever more important for activists, Twitter has to hand over information on one of its users
South African mines reopen but unrest continues
Global platinum price rises in response to strikes that have seen 45 miners killed
Japanese companies shut down factories in China
Honda, Mazda and Panasonic halting production
Japan to build missile defence system targeting North Korea
System could heighten tensions with China
South African mines reopen but unrest continues
Global platinum price rises in response to strikes that have seen 45 miners killed
Police arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters in NY
First-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement witnesses arresting protesters
Hezbollah calls for protests across Lebanon
“This assault is even worse than the 1969 burning of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque”, says Nasrallah
Pentagon chief calls for calm in Japan-China spat
“It is extremely important that diplomatic means on both sides be used to try to constructively resolve these issues”, says Panetta
Protesting Blasphemy or Foreign Policy?
For the most part media has portrayed the protests in front of American embassies as just as a protest over the amateur video insulting Islam and prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him. Moreover, it is surprising how some media outlets choose to describe the regions where the outrage occurred as the “Middle East”, …
Cairo University succumbs to industrial action
At least four groups of workers on strike, during the first week of the new academic year
Nile University strikers not happy with committee’s solution
The strike continues as the students refuse the solution proposed
AUC to suspend students pending protest investigation
protesters who prevented fellow students from entering the campus will be suspended