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    India says celebrities’ comments on farm protests irresponsible

    03 Feb 2021

    US singer Rihanna, climate change activist Greta Thunberg and US lawyer and activist Meena Harris, the niece of Vice-President Kamala Harris, made comments on social media drawing attention to the plight of farmers who have been on a months-long campaign against reforms.

    Anger over arrests in Myanmar at anti-coup protests

    13 Feb 2021

    Thousands assembled in the business hub, Yangon, while protesters took to the streets of the capital Naypyitaw, the second city Mandalay and other towns a day after the biggest protests so far in the Southeast Asian country.

    Tractors, trucks block India’s roads as farm protests widen

    06 Feb 2021

    While the initial protests were started by rice and wheat growers from northern Indian who camped out on the outskirts of New Delhi, support for them has been growing especially in states not ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party.

    Myanmar faces more protests as Indonesia pursues diplomatic efforts

    24 Feb 2021

    This week saw huge rallies on Monday and a general strike to denounce the military’s Feb.1 coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, despite a warning from authorities that confrontation could get people killed.

    Hundreds join third day of anti-coup protests in Myanmar

    08 Feb 2021

    A group of saffron-robed monks marched in the vanguard of the protest with workers and students. They flew multicoloured Buddhist flags alongside red banners in the colour of Suu Kyi’s National league for Democracy (NLD), witnesses said.

    Anger brews over prison death of Bangladesh writer

    27 Feb 2021

    Demonstrators demanded the scrapping of Bangladesh’s hardline Digital Security Act (DSA) under which Ahmed was imprisoned. The law has been used to crack down on dissent since it was enacted in 2018.

    Myanmar protests resume, West condemns security response

    10 Feb 2021

    The United States and United Nations condemned the use of force against protesters, who demand the reversal of the coup and the release of Suu Kyi and other detained leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) and activists.

    Indian govt appeals to farmers for talks as protests continue

    22 Dec 2020

    Thousands of protesters have camped on the outskirts of New Delhi and blocked national highways for over three weeks to protest against new laws that the government says would increase farmers’ income through more private investments.

    Peru repeals farm law after days of road blockades

    05 Dec 2020

    The protesters erupted with joy and immediately began lifting the blockades that had choked many stretches of the north-south Pan-American Highway.

    At least 15 shot dead in anti-coup protests in Sudan

    18 Nov 2021

    The fatalities — all in Khartoum, especially its northern districts — raised to 39 the death toll from unrest since the military seized power, a pro-democracy doctors' union said. Hundreds more have been wounded.

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