ALBAWABA - Authorities detained 35 protesters involved in confrontations with police in Atlanta, Georgia, where the activists object to the constructio
Almost 5,000 people were detained after anti-war protests across Russian cities on Sunday. More than 30 people reported being beaten at police stations after they were detained.
The year 2020 tested democracy and civic freedoms in many ways. After the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic in March, governments took unprecedented actions, such as imposing curfews, restricting people’s movements, and limiting or banning gatherings. According to international law, some of these measures went beyond the permissible bounds for limiting rights during public health emergencies, bounds meant to ensure that such measures are kept “proportionate, necessary, and nondiscriminatory.”
In its latest report, the CIVICUS Monitor an online tool that tracks the space for civil society globally shows that the governments of EU states, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK) restricted civic freedoms in subtle ways, often under the guise of fighting the pandemic. More specifically, the right to peaceful assembly came under attack. It comes as no surprise that authoritarian and far-right governments in countries like Hungary, Poland, and Sloven
Protesters detainedMembers of the Muslim JAC, who tried to stage a protest near the old secretariat against the demolition of two mosques on the complex, were detained by the police here on Sunday. Ce