Posts Tagged ‘protest’
Protest outside Tunisian embassy in Paris after shooting of opposition leader Chokri Belaid
The shooting of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid on Wednesday sparked protests in Paris, as well as across Tunisia itself. Around 200 demonstrators gathered near the Tunisian embassy in the French capital, shouting slogans and carrying placards reading, “in Tunisia, the Islamists kill”.
Eritreans protest outside Paris embassy
A group of Eritean political refugees protested outside Eritrea’s Paris embassy on Friday in a demonstration against President Isaias Afewerki. There have been similar demonstrations at Eritrea embassies in other European capitals in recent days, including London and Rome. This comes following a recently reported army mutiny in the Eritrean capital Asmara, when some 200 Eritrean soldiers briefly occupied the country’s Information Ministry.
Read the rest of this entry »Overview: London conference on Somalia
“Kenya stop violating our sea coast” – protesters at the London conference on Somalia
Interview: Adjoa Anyimadu, Somalia researcher, Chatham House
“Scepticism understandable”Interview: Benedicte Goderiaux, Somalia researcher, Amnesty International
“Foreign armies and proxy militias in Somalia must be held accountable”Interview: Ali Rooble, protester
“London conference on Somalia aims to conquer the country”Ambience: Protest at London conference
“Hands off Somalia!”Indignant protests in 82 countries target corporate greed, austerity
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Demonstrators angered by corporate greed and government austerity policies are demonstrating in 951 cities in 82 countries around the world as part of the United for Global Change movement. The protests, first proposed by a Portuguese youth movement, come as leaders of 20 countries meet in Paris to prepare for the G20 summit in Cannes on 3-4 November.
Paris protesters call for Syria’s al-Assad to go
Demonstrators at the Place du Trocadero call for regime change in Syria, 11 June 2011. Photo: LA Bagnetto
Syrian demonstrators took to the streets of cities across the world on Saturday in protest against the Syrian regime. In downtown Montreal about 300 people gathered, chanting, “the people want an end to the regime”. While in Paris near the Eiffel tower activists were demanding for an end to corruption and tyranny.
