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China

Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed over anti-government protests

Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed for six to eight months for roles in anti-government protests known as the umbrella movement.

17/08/2017

USA

What is white nationalism?

The events in the U.S town of Charlottesville, Virginia have put white nationalism firmly in the spotlight. But who are the white nationalists and what do they want?

14/08/2017

Argentina

Argentina: thousands protest over missing indigenous rights activist

Santiago Maldonado disappeared after clashes as security forces evicted a group of Mapuche Indians from land owned by Benetton in Patagonia.

12/08/2017

China

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, Chinese government says

13/07/2017

China

Jailed Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo now "seriously ill"

10/07/2017

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Anti-Trump protest: thousands rally in Brussels

25/05/2017

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French philosopher Levy gets pied in Belgrade

A Serbian activist threw a cream pie in the face of French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy at a showing of his film ‘Peshmerga’ in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Wednesday (10…

12/05/2017

Russia

Five LGBT activists detained in Russia

The group were delivering a petition over the alleged violent crackdown on gay people in Chechnya when they were detained.

11/05/2017

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May Day in Paris

Less than a week before the decisive second round in France’s presidential election, thousands of people took part in the traditional May Day rally in central…

02/05/2017

World News

Workers and activists mark May Day around the globe

Workers and activists around the world have marked May Day with defiant rallies and marches.

02/05/2017

Venezuela

'There is no future here' - Venezuelans stage mass sit-ins

Mass sit-ins in Venezuela, as anti-government protesters keep up the pressure for early elections.

24/04/2017

USA

Euroviews. The American left's free speech reversal: View

By Peter Van Voorhis In the 1960s, activists at the University of California, Berkeley started the American free speech movement, where millions of students across the country fought for free speech r

24/04/2017

Kenya

Conservationist Kuki Gallmann wounded in Kenya attack

An Italian-born conservationist has undergone surgery after being shot by gunmen in northern Kenya.

23/04/2017

Europe News

Bayer-Monsanto merger is 'marriage made in hell,' say activists

Environmental campaigners have turned out in Brussels to demand the EU blocks a deal that would create the world’s biggest seeds and pesticides company.

30/03/2017

Russia

Jailed Kremlin critic Ildar Dadin's jail term quashed

Russia’s supreme court has overturned the conviction of jailed opposition activist Ildar Dadin and ordered his release.

22/02/2017

Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition activists freed, but '100 remain imprisoned'

After being held for more than a year on corruption charges, Venezuelan former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales has been released from house arrest.

31/12/2016

India

World's longest hunger-strike ends with honey

One of India's most-prominent political activists has ended her 16-year hunger strike. Licking honey from her hand, Irom Sharmila declared "I will never forget this moment."

09/08/2016

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Cambodians mourn beloved activist

Tens of thousands gathered on Sunday (July 24) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to join a funeral procession taking the body of assassinated government critic Kem Ley to his hometown in Takeo…

25/07/2016

Angola

Book club activists freed in Angola

A court in Angola has released 16 activists, including the well known rapper Luaty Beirão, after they were imprisoned for rebellion against long serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

30/06/2016

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Peace activists disrupt Paris arms show

Dozens of peace activists disrupted the opening of an arms exhibition in Paris on Monday, June 13.

14/06/2016