But the unrest that erupted during the police crackdown on Oct.
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Hours after the incident, hundreds of people fled, fearing a police crackdown.
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He celebrated a police crackdown last year in which hundreds were confiscated.
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More than 40 died in a police crackdown on protests in January 2015.
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This was before the raves become subject to a police crackdown in 2005.
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More than 840 people were injured during Sunday's police crackdown, Catalan officials said.
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More than 40 people died in a police crackdown on protests in January 2015.
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Despite a violent police crackdown, Catalan officials say the result was an overwhelming "yes" vote.
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The rare police crackdown was prompted by the mining company, PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara.
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The police crackdown on protesters and curbs on some media have fueled broader criticism of Ortega.
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Remember the protests that turned violent in Milwaukee, the police crackdown on rallies in Baton Rouge?
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Six people were killed and thousands wounded during a police crackdown against protests which went nationwide.
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Rights groups, which have criticized France's robust police crackdown following the Paris attacks, praise German restraint.
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The police crackdown on Sunday, an attempt to stop the referendum, was clumsy and heavy-handed.
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At the same time, Tinima enlists Oscar's help in arming Havana's students against the police crackdown.
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Tony had marched a few times in demonstrations, but had become disillusioned by the police crackdown.
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Lam's desire to negotiate with democracy advocates and her wariness of ordering a harsher police crackdown.
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The incident represented a breaking point for the city that led to an aggressive police crackdown.
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What began as a celebration at Taylor Square on Oxford Street turned into a violent police crackdown.
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The drug-related deaths made national headlines and incited a police crackdown on illegal substances at festivals.
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People also gathered in central Barcelona, the Catalan capital, where a police crackdown during the banned Oct.
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The violence that day was intense, with reports estimating more than 210 people injured in the ensuing police crackdown.
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But a majority wanted a referendum to be held, and the violent police crackdown angered Catalans across the divide.
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Ninety percent of the 2.26 million people that went to the polls, despite a police crackdown, voted for independence.
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Human rights groups and protesters have denounced the police crackdown as heavy handed and urged authorities to issue restraint.
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Not only did he order the police crackdown, they said, he also "learned about police abuse" at the time.
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But a 2015 Thai police crackdown on human trafficking syndicates led to ships with migrants aboard being abandoned at sea.
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The organizers of Saturday's protest said more people would have turned up if they had not feared a police crackdown.
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The organisers of Saturday's protest said more people would have turned up if they had not feared a police crackdown.
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Other summits have gone differently: Protests at the G20 in Toronto in 2010 turned violent amid riots and a police crackdown.
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NAIROBI — WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been blocked in Zimbabwe amid huge anti-government protests and a brutal police crackdown.
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The violence was intense, with reports from Catalan authorities estimating that more than 230 people were injured in the police crackdown.
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The pimps — Larry, Rodney (Clint "Method Man" Smith), and Reggie Love (Tariq Trotter) — head to Vincent, driven by the police crackdown.
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Demonstrators have overwhelmed city streets, so far undeterred by a police crackdown in which hundreds have been arrested and dozens killed.
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"I was green, but your baton made me purple!" they yelled, referring to a violent police crackdown on the 2009 uprising.
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HSBC has become embroiled in a controversy involving a police crackdown earlier this month on a fund-raising platform supporting protesters.
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The three episodes suggested that militant activity was re-emerging after a major police crackdown and a lull of many months.
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After a brutal police crackdown failed to quell the unrest, reformers like Dubcek gained the upper hand in an internal party struggle.
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On Monday, about 200 protesters rallied in Bismarck, North Dakota to call on President Barack Obama to condemn Sunday night's police crackdown.
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The protests—and the ensuing violent police crackdown—led the World Bank to freeze all new loans to the country for years.
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As mayor, he oversaw a police crackdown that was associated with plunging crime rates, and was reëlected in a landslide, in 20003.
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Police also intervened to stop a meeting organized by a pro-independence Catalan party, the first public police crackdown on the process.
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"Both sides need to say they are prepared to do this," he said after a violent police crackdown on the independence vote.
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Officials have said the women are radicals or have been paid to be there, and many believe a police crackdown is imminent.
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But the Movement of the Poor said on its Facebook page on Wednesday it canceled the protests due to a police crackdown.
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Although he said the perception of a violent police crackdown was "exaggerated," he suggested that Spanish authorities had absorbed some of the criticism.
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Rajoy raised the possibility of a negotiated settlement this week, though he ruled out independence and praised the police crackdown on the referendum.
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The demonstrations, mainly led by students, were quelled by a violent police crackdown and the deployment in force of riot police outside universities.
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In Barcelona, hundreds of students gathered in a central square to protest at Sunday's police crackdown, chanting pro-independence slogans and waving Catalan flags.
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Catalan officials said over 460 people had been injured in the police crackdown and the Spanish Interior Ministry said 12 police had been hurt.
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Except that Mr. Wu, an 18-year-old student, and those around him were not looking over their shoulders, worried about a police crackdown.
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The court has yet to rule on a separate petition by the Free Legal Assistance Group asking it to declare the police crackdown unconstitutional.
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But there are still many like Chris who actively seek it out, even after a recent police crackdown slowed the supply coming into Hull.
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But a majority want a referendum to be held, and protesters said the violent police crackdown against the ballot had energized the secessionist camp.
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Catalan officials said 844 people had been injured in the police crackdown and the Spanish Interior Ministry said 12 police officers had been hurt.
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In total, 92,000 people have fled Myanmar's Rakhine State since a brutal police crackdown led to reports of rape, arson and other human rights abuses.
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He heard Smetana's surging "Má Vlast" played to exuberant Velvet Revolutionaries in Czechoslovakia, and, surreally, was sheltered from a police crackdown along with Shirley Temple.
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He was putting up photos that had been sent by friends and family, which recorded a police crackdown that had swept his home village, Wukan.
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The police crackdown followed an announcement by the authorities of the district of Beyoglu, where the rally is held, that the meeting would be banned.
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The Weekly: The latest episode of The Times's TV show is about the police crackdown on protesters at a university in Hong Kong last year.
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Earlier the embassy had criticized the police crackdown on the protesters, whom it described as having "united and captured the imagination of the whole country".
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The far western Chinese region has a long history of unrest and protests, including a 2009 police crackdown which spiraled into citywide violence in Urumqi.
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The Chinese region has a long history of unrest and protests, including a 2009 police crackdown which spiraled into citywide violence in the capital Urumqi.
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Puigdemont says a violent police crackdown during the referendum and arrests of pro-independence leaders on charges of sedition show the Spanish state has become authoritarian.
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Thousands of Russian opposition protesters are expected to try and rally again in Moscow on Saturday despite a sweeping police crackdown and ban on the event.
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In 2016, a police crackdown and threats of deportation coerced over 600,000 Afghans to face danger and destitution back in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch has claimed.
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But the police crackdown set off a populist uprising similar to the Standing Rock protests of 2016 in the United States against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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In the aftermath of the August election, at least 45 people died during a police crackdown on opposition supporters, according to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
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Violence erupted in Catalonia after its regional leader opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on Sunday as voters defied a police crackdown.
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It passed a bill legalizing the electric bicycles commonly driven by New York City's food delivery workers, who are currently the targets of an absurd police crackdown.
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Mr. Ramaphosa was accused of using his political influence to press for a police crackdown, though an official inquiry into the massacre eventually absolved him of guilt.
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Neighboring Thailand was a popular transit route by boat and land until a 2015 Thai police crackdown led to ships full of migrants being abandoned at sea.
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A trauma clinic in Harare last month recorded a list of cases of people who had been caught up in a police crackdown during anti-government protests.
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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Monday at least 33 people were killed in Nairobi during a police crackdown on opposition supporters after the August vote.
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The Rodney King case and the police crackdown on gang violence in Los Angeles had created an atmosphere of police distrust among many members of the minority community.
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The decision not to indict Wilson set off massive protests in Ferguson that led to rioting and an extreme police crackdown on the city which gained national attention.
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Insomniac was started in the middle of a police crackdown on parties, which was the city's response to riots that erupted after the Rodney King verdict in 1992.
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The Spanish government's current delegate in Catalonia is Enric Millo, but separatists this week demanded his resignation for condoning the police crackdown on voters, which left hundreds injured.
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The rally on Sunday was organized to show that the referendum, which attracted international attention for a police crackdown that left hundreds injured, did not represent all Catalans.
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Government statistics show that a police crackdown over the last two years has had some success in reducing the supply of heroin, and public rehabilitation centers have proliferated.
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In the past several days, social media footage appeared to show crowds of protesters reaching the gates of Iranian parliament, and other images have shown a strong police crackdown.
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In the short term, the police crackdown on the independence movement could help Catalan separatists, who are part of a fragile coalition in the regional government, broaden their support.
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Taylor described the "relative success" of Estonia's police crackdown on fentanyl in 2017 as a "quite remarkable" event that could be transferred to North American cities or small states.
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She was an art student at the time, a witness to a police crackdown on a social protest movement in the town of San Salvador Atenco 11 years ago.
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That would prompt a backlash from the pro-secessionist parties that govern Catalonia, risking a repeat of the mass street protests and police crackdown after the northeastern region's 2017 vote.
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Sanchez has been working to defuse tension with regional authorities since taking over the premiership in June from Mariano Rajoy, whose government presided over a police crackdown on an Oct.
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Charles Puigdemont's comments to British broadcaster BBC come in the wake of a weekend referendum which was declared illegal by Spain's central government and marred by a violent police crackdown.
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A brutal police crackdown and deportation threats coerced over 22019,000 Afghans in the last six months of 2016, including 365,000 registered refugees, to face danger and destitution back in Afghanistan.
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Sanchez has been working to defuse tension with Catalan authorities since taking over the premiership in June from Mariano Rajoy, whose government presided over a police crackdown on an Oct.
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"Many of the eyewitnesses claim that the violent police crackdown on the third night of the concerts ... were crucial in changing the mood against the state," the Guardian has written.
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Indigenous leaders have rejected negotiations as an attempt to derail their movement and have called for an end to a police crackdown on protesters after four died in the unrest.
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France's highest administrative court has halted a Mediterranean town's prohibition on the full-body swimsuit worn by some Muslim women at the beach amid a global outcry against a police crackdown.
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A general strike has been called by pro-separatists and unions in Catalonia for Tuesday in protest at what they see as a violation of their rights following the police crackdown.
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"I did not kill anyone, why did you do this to me?" said Emine Ocak, the mother of Hasan, addressing Mr. Erdogan directly at a news briefing after the police crackdown.
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The greenback got a boost, climbing higher against the euro, as investors weighed up the political fallout from the violent police crackdown on an independence vote in the wealthy region of Catalonia.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Russian opposition protesters were expected to try and rally again in Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections despite a sweeping police crackdown and ban on the event.
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HARARE (Reuters) - A protest by Zimbabwean taxi drivers against a police crackdown turned violent on Monday when residents joined in and hurled rocks at police, who fired teargas to disperse the rioters.
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Turkish and international refugee officials have reported an increase in migrants and refugees trying to cross by boat into Europe from Turkey, many of them Syrians leaving Istanbul since the police crackdown.
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Signs of wear are starting to show on the protesters, as days of sleep deprivation, the constant sound of mortar fire and the fear of a police crackdown strain their frayed nerves.
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When Gnassingbe came to power in 2005 after his father's death, mass protests against the family's rule were met with a violent police crackdown during which at least 500 people were killed.
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He was arrested again on February 15 after being on run for two months following a police crackdown on a meeting of human-rights lawyers and activists that he attended in Xiamen.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Tuesday said it was concerned by reports of people dying and public buildings being damaged in Iran during a police crackdown against anti-government demonstrations that began last week.
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Since the vote, which was marred by a police crackdown on voters, relations between the Spanish government and separatists have reached a low point with little, if any, communication between the two sides.
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On Friday, Spain apologized for the violent police crackdown on Catalonia's independence referendum, in a conciliatory gesture as both sides looked for a way out of the nation's worst political crisis in decades.
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A mass protest which broke out after a police crackdown on a smaller demonstration spiraled out of control in July 2009, and saw rioters rampage through Urumqi armed with clubs, knives and stones.
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The issues Miao raises in her exhibit have also shown up on the news quite recently: many Chinese Twitter users have vanished from the platform after a police crackdown over the past half-year.
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NEW YORK A picture caption on July 21 with an article about a police crackdown in Brooklyn after a rash of K2800 overdoses misidentified Adrian Llewellyn's position at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center.
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Last month, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called the Islamic State group a "very real" threat to the country after a video featuring Katibah Nusantara operatives warned of attacks in response to the police crackdown.
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The move to the judiciary will relieve Kenyans who feared a repeat of the violence that followed the flawed 2007 vote, when Odinga called for protests which led to a police crackdown and ethnic violence.
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It had opened higher, fell briefly, then headed back up again, remaining some distance from six-month highs of 1.81 percent hit last week after the illegal referendum that was marred by a violent police crackdown.
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EVENING STATEMENT Puigdemont's comments appeared after Spain's King Felipe VI accused secessionist leaders on Tuesday of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as tens of thousands protested against a violent police crackdown on Sunday's vote.
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Uber's Finland country manager Joel Jarvinen said a police crackdown on drivers without licenses was regrettable at a time when the government was preparing changes in taxi regulation, but declined to comment further on the verdicts.
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Catalonia's regional leader opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on Sunday after voters defied a violent police crackdown and, according to regional officials, voted 90 percent in favor of breaking away.
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Outside, hundreds of other protesters marched through downtown Brooklyn; they yelled incendiary chants ("No justice, no peace, fuck these racist police") and held up signs to protest New York City's police crackdown on subway fare evasion.
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Spanish borrowing costs rose and stocks fell as a violent police crackdown on an independence vote in Catalonia rattled investors, but major European bourses gained on travel stocks and a mining sector helped by higher metals prices.
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Their ranks have been decimated by emigration as a police crackdown has left many in jail or seeking to avoid it, and a hyperinflationary economic crisis has led many to seek reprieve in neighboring Latin American nations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Spanish government's borrowing costs surged and its stock market tumbled on Monday as investors weighed up the political fallout from the violent police crackdown on an independence vote in the wealthy region of Catalonia.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Operators of Toronto's unlicensed marijuana stores said on Tuesday they would defy Canada's drug laws and continue their sales despite a police crackdown two weeks ago that targeted nearly half of the city's roughly 100 stores.
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A police crackdown at crossings has created a build-up of migrants in border towns like Italy's Ventimiglia; a small seaside Riviera city which is a 20-minute drive down spiraling mountain roads from Herrou's farm in France.
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Spain apologized Friday for a violent police crackdown on Catalonia's independence referendum, in a conciliatory gesture as both sides looked for a way out of the nation's worst political crisis since it became a democracy four decades ago.
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QUBA, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Falling oil prices sparked rare demonstrations over the rising cost of food in Azerbaijan last year, but a police crackdown and the deployment of a Soviet-style civilian militia have snuffed out the protest movement.
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Read more: Hong Kong activists use 'Pokémon Go' and Tinder to organize as police crackdown on protestsWith the aim of finding a romantic relationship, 1,000 single people took part in the trip again this year on August 10.
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That ensured a police crackdown on the protesters — many of whom carried Russian flags while chanting "Russia without Putin" to underscore that they are the true patriots — in the midst of holiday crowds and people in historical costumes.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Catalonia's regional leader opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on Sunday after voters defied a violent police crackdown and, according to regional officials, voted 90 percent in favor of breaking away.
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Nearly 1,43 people were detained in a violent police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, a Russian monitoring group said Sunday, adding that was the largest number of detentions at a rally in the Russian capital this decade.
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HONG KONG, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Hong Kong anti-government activists gathered outside a detention centre on Friday, demanding the release of arrested activists and denouncing a police crackdown on a fund-raising platform supporting protesters in need.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday accused Catalan secessionist leaders of shattering democratic principles and dividing Catalan society, as thousands took to the streets to protest against a violent police crackdown against the banned independence referendum held on Sunday.
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The televised speech, a rare intervention by the 49-year-old monarch who is normally silent on politics, was a sign of how deeply Spain has been shaken by the Catalan vote and a police crackdown that injured 900 people.
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The police crackdown on demonstrators and curbs on some media in the past few days have fueled broader criticism of Ortega, who has tightened his hold on the country's institutions since he took office for a second time 11 years ago.
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The opposition and anti-government activists and supporters were angered further this month when parliament approved a new government led by Russian-educated former interior minister Giorgi Gakharia and has been calling for his resignation since the June 20 police crackdown.
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"I'm getting calls from my relatives up country, who obviously know this is happening, and they're getting bits from social media and telephone calls talking about mayhem in Nairobi, about a police crackdown — things that are not happening," Mr. Githongo said.
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But the judges defiantly stood firm on the truth, on rule-of-law, and in solidarity with the protesters who were met by a brutal police crackdown, including arrests, beatings, rapes and armed assaults and who yet did not surrender the street.
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LONDON/TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A police crackdown on dark web markets such as AlphaBay and Hansa is driving cyber criminals to use mobile messaging apps to locate anonymous new hideouts from which to operate, a report by security researchers published on Wednesday showed.
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At 1.68 percent at 0800GMT, yields remained some distance from six-month highs of 1.81 percent hit last week in the wake of the illegal referendum that was marred by a violent police crackdown, but were off Monday's low of 1.64 percent.
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"In America people are proud to be patriots, whereas in Spain if you say that you're proud of your country, they say you're a fascist," said Carlotta Carro, a 24-year-old lawyer who supported the Spanish police crackdown on the Catalan referendum.
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But while less heavy-handed than in Belarus, whose Soviet-style president is often referred to as "Europe's last dictator," the police crackdown in Moscow could still complicate efforts by President Trump to deliver on pledges to "get along" with Mr. Putin.
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VIC, Spain (Reuters) - Catalonia's pro-independence leader Carles Puigdemont has called for the European Union to mediate with Spain over the region's future, but for many Catalans the intensity of a police crackdown on a banned referendum may mean it is too late for compromise.
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Between 1965 and 1968, the United States underwent an astonishing string of violent upheavals: deadly riots in Watts, Newark and Detroit; the assassinations of Malcolm X, King and Robert Kennedy; and the brutal police crackdown on demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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"Those politicians in London, they don't give one dirt about Ireland," says Willie McKeever, a retired woodcutter who lives in a pro-Republican neighborhood in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, where a 1968 police crackdown on protesters marked the beginning of The Troubles.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 800 girls were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in northern Tanzania last month, a local government official said, despite a police crackdown to stop the practice that affects millions of girls in the east African country.
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"The Islamic State has been slowly trying to take over the network of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) throughout the entire region," noted Jonah Blank, senior political scientist at RAND, referring to the longstanding Indonesian-based terrorist group that was largely stamped out in 2011 following a police crackdown.
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The monarch's televised address came at the close of a daylong general strike in Catalonia, as well as road blockades and a mass rally in downtown Barcelona, to protest Sunday's police crackdown on voters as they took part in an independence referendum that had been declared illegal by Spain's constitutional court.
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Protesters said police dispersal tactics caused numerous broken limbs and head injuries, with police saying they were responding to an unsanctioned assembly, according to the AP. The police crackdown on the opposition began ahead of the Saturday rally, with opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrested and sentenced to 30 days in jail Wednesday for calling for the demonstration.
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"It is striking that two fathers in search of justice for their dead sons have mobilized more outcry against lack of rule of law and impunity in BiH than any political party has managed to do," the European Union's special representative in Bosnia, Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, said in a statement that also condemned the police crackdown on Dec. 25.
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Benny Tai Yiu-ting, an academic who had been advocating a kind of Occupy operation in Central, a business district, was forced to accept a modified version of his own idea after supporters of the student leader Joshua Wong scaled the gates of the Legislative Council in Admiralty, triggering the police crackdown that really kick-started the movement.
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President Trump would soon have to announce who would chair the Fed and many do think that he may favor someone who would take a more aggressive approach towards monetary policy, said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at ThinkMarkets UK. The dollar soared on Monday as U.S. Treasury yields hit their highest in almost 214.75 weeks, while Spanish stocks fell as a police crackdown on a unilateral independence vote in Catalonia rattled investors.
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