Anti-government Protests

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was arrested Thursday when her motorcycle convoy was fired upon by security forces as it departed an anti-government protest in Caracas, according to aides. Machado emerged from months of hiding earlier Thursday to reappear in public as part of a last-ditch attempt to block President Nicols Maduro from clinging to power. Machado's press team said in a social media post that security forces violently intercepted the convoy as it was leaving eastern Caracas. There were no immediate details on her whereabouts and Maduro's government has yet to comment. They wanted us to fight each other, but Venezuela is united, we are not afraid, Machado shouted to a few hundred protesters from atop a truck in the capital moments before her arrest. The protests are taking place a day before the ruling party-controlled National Assembly is scheduled to swear in Maduro to a third six-year term despite credible evidence that he lost the presidential ...

No violence or protests reported on Monday morning and media said curfew would be relaxed for 3 hours in afternoon, extended from 2 hours previous day, so that people could buy essentials

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Vijayendra and other BJP leaders were whisked away in a bus on the Mysuru Road near Kengeri here, even as they sought to resist police action

An international rights group has urged Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe to cease the unlawful use of force against anti-government protesters

Sri Lankan security forces raided the main anti-government protest camp at the President's Secretariat here early on Friday, arresting nine people and injuring several others

At least seven persons, including two policemen, were injured in clashes between security forces and anti-govt protesters who had gathered in large numbers in the central Colombo's Fort area

Sri Lankan Police has lifted the curfew that was imposed in seven divisions in the country's Western Province, including in Colombo, ahead of planned anti-government protests on Saturday

Ahead of the major anti-govt protest, an indefinite curfew has been enforced in entrance areas to capital Colombo from Friday night

The Sri Lankan government on Thursday deployed troops as a precautionary measure in Rambukkana after lifting the curfew

The demonstrations began January 2 in the western part of Kazakhstan over a sharp rise in fuel prices and spread throughout the country

Hundreds of college students, cadres of the Left organisations and minority institutions staged protests and staged sit-in demo in the port city against the CAA and sought its repeal at the earliest.

More than 1,000 people were detained during Sunday unauthorized anti-government protests held across Belarus, the non-governmental human rights center Viasna reported

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Tens of thousands gather near Thammasat varsity campus for the biggest anti-govt protest since the 2014 military coup

The new law permits for the first time Chinese security agencies to open their establishments in Hong Kong

The legislation would allow Beijing to take aim at the large often violent anti-government protests

Assam has been facing a shortage of fuel supply due to the ongoing protests against citizenship amendment Bill

The "yellow vest" movement began three weeks ago in opposition to a rise in fuel tax and planned increases in taxes