Nobel peace prize 2023: award for Iranian women’s rights protester highlights fight against declining democracy around the world: One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She …
How can a French protester be arrested under British terrorism laws in London? The alarming ‘schedule 7’ power explained: Moret was arrested after arriving at St Pancras International station. Shutterstock The arrest and charging of a French publisher as he arrived in London has raised serious questions about the use and abuse of power in …
Iran executes first protester as human rights abuses come under international scrutiny: Iran’s execution of protester Mohsen Shekari is the first after a huge wave of unrest swept around the country in the autumn of 2022. Shekari was found guilty by a Iranian Revolutionary Court of “moharebeh” (enmity against God), news sources reported. Human rights …
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A lockdown protester in Germany has caused a furore by comparing herself to an anti-Nazi hero: A bust of Sophie Scholl. RyanHulin/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA A video from an anti-lockdown protest in Germany has gone viral after a protester compared herself to the anti-Nazi resister Sophie Scholl. Scholl was a 21-year-old student executed in 1943 for …
Topless protester tries to grab baby Jesus figure at Vatican: A topless protester was detained by Vatican police on Monday for attempting to steal the doll of baby Jesus from the Vatican's nativity scene. The incident occurred as thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square to hear the Pope's Christmas Day message. : Weird …