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Thai authorities have escalated their legal battle against the students leading pro-democracy protests, charging 12 of them with violating a harsh law against defaming the monarchy.News of the charges comes as the Thai capital Bangkok girded for another rally Wednesday as the students push their demands that Prime Minister Prayuth…

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CAPE TOWN - The South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will be taking the PAC to the Equality Court, following recent protests near Brackenfell High School in Cape Town in which the PAC took part. The school has been at the centre of a racism row for several weeks, over…

The SAHRC is investigating more than 20 complaints related to a contentious matric ball party and subsequent brawl in Brackenfell.Twelve of these relate to EFF supporters singing “Shoot the Boer” outside the school on 6 November during a protest.The PAC will be taken to the Equality Court after “One Settler,…

Antifa protesters harassed and assaulted pro-police demonstrators in Omaha, Nebraska, during a weekend of street action. The anti-cop protests followed the officer-involved shooting death of an armed black man who allegedly resisted arrest and pulled a gun Thursday night. Omaha police supporters came out during the second night of protests…

The Post releases the third of its exhaustive four-part account of the unrest that pushed the city to the brink last year Hour-long production on the city’s greatest upheaval of the post-handover era draws on SCMP’s frontline footage and its award-winning journalism Topic |   Hong Kong protests Published: 7:36pm, 23 Nov,…

HONG KONG (AP) — Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and two other activists were taken into custody Monday after they pleaded guilty to charges related to a demonstration outside police headquarters during anti-government protests last year.Wong, together with fellow activists Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow, pleaded guilty to…

The funeral of a black man who died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in Brazil has been held following protests that echoed those of the racial justice movement in the United States.Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas, a father of four, was buried wearing a white T-shirt in a coffin…

PARIS (AP) - Rights campaigners and journalists organizations staged street protests in Paris and other French cities on Saturday against a security bill that they say would be a violation of the freedom of information. The proposed measure would create a new criminal offense of publishing images of police officers…

Relatives and supporters of 12 Hongkongers detained on the mainland after allegedly trying to flee the city by speedboat, staged a protest on Saturday on an island near the prison in Shenzhen where they had been kept for several months. Around a dozen people hiked to the peak of Kat…