Police clash with demonstrators as huge anti-lockdown protests break out in Germany

Protesters clashed with police in Germany and Croatia on Saturday as new lockdowns were introduced in France, Poland and Ukraine to battle a third wave of coronavirus. Demonstrators took to the streets in the central German city of Kassel and were pictured engaging with lines of riot police.  Several groups, most of them far-right opponents … Read more

Violence erupts at anti-lockdown protests on eve of Dutch election as police confront demonstrators

Some 2,000 people gathered in The Hague on Sunday to protest against the Dutch government and its coronavirus lockdown. Several people carried a homemade banner with the words ‘Love & Freedom: No Dictatorship’ written on it in Dutch, while many others carried yellow umbrellas. Another demonstrator carried a makeshift set of stocks with a photo … Read more

Myanmar authorities shoot two demonstrators dead as violent crackdown continues

Myanmar authorities shoot two demonstrators dead as violent crackdown continues after leader of civilian government called for ‘revolution’ against military coup leaders At least two people were killed during the protests in Hlaing Thar Yar Township in Yangon on Saturday  Elsewhere, four in Mandalay, two in Pyay and one in Twante, were killed as part of … Read more

Armed police clash with thousands of demonstrators in Myanmar in second day of mass protests

Armed police have clashed with tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters, who poured back onto the streets of Myanmar on Sunday for a second day of mass demonstrations against the military takeover.   Shots were heard as police broke up a protest in the southeastern town of Myawaddy against the military’s ouster of the country’s de-facto … Read more

Thai demonstrators call on king to give up royal fortune of tens of billions of dollars

Thousands of demonstrators called on Thailand’s king to give up control of a royal fortune valued in the tens of billions of dollars today. The demand comes as the latest in months of demonstrations focused squarely on King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy. The protesters have broken a longstanding taboo by criticising the king in … Read more

Anti-lockdown demonstrators clash with police in Italy and French Catholics demand right to worship

Anti-lockdown demonstrators clashed with police in Italy today while French Catholics demanded the right to worship as Covid protests have broken out across Europe.  Angry protesters faced off with riot officers in Rome this afternoon, shouting and chanting to express their frustration at the latest regional lockdown measures imposed by the Italian government. Meanwhile in … Read more

Furious Orthodox Jewish demonstrators take to Brooklyn streets to protest COVID-19 restrictions  

Orthodox Jewish demonstrators torch face masks, stop traffic and assault reporters as they return to Brooklyn streets to protest COVID-19 restrictions – despite uptick in cases in their neighborhoods Members of the Orthodox Jewish community took to the streets in Borough Park, Brooklyn, on Wednesday to protest coronavirus restrictions  Group of Orthodox Jewish men assaulted … Read more

Security forces blockade Minsk city centre as more than 100,000 demonstrators march on palace

The army and security forces have blockaded Minsk city centre as more than 100,000 demonstrators demand the Belarusian President quit over ‘rigged’ election victory.   Protests against President Alexander Lukashenko entered their fifth week as tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to the outskirts of his presidential residence in the capital.   Protests calling for the country’s authoritarian … Read more

Hundreds of demonstrators pour onto the streets of Belarus

Vladimir Putin threatens to intervene in Belarus to support ‘Europe’s last dictator’ Viktor Lukashenko as 200,000 people pour onto the streets protesting his ‘rigged’ reelection People called poured onto streets of Belarus calling for President’s resignation President Viktor Lukashenko launched a brutal crackdown after claiming victory Now Kremlin is looking at using a joint defence … Read more