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Navalny’s supporters head to protests despite looming crackdown

23 Jan 2021

Gulf Today Report Supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were set to confront Russian authorities on Saturday even as authorities vowed a crackdown on protesters, according to AFP....

Duterte says he can be held responsible for drug killings

20 Oct 2020

The Philippine president has said he has no problem with being held responsible for the many killings under his anti-drugs crackdown, adding that he was ready to face charges...

Thai protesters vow new demonstration despite crackdown

17 Oct 2020

Thai protesters said they would hold another demonstration on Saturday despite a crackdown by police on more than three months of protests that have targeted the powerful monarchy as...

Police crack down on marathon anti-Kremlin protest in Russia's Far East

10 Oct 2020

Police in Russia’s Far East broke up a long-running anti-Kremlin protest with force on Saturday, detaining 25 people according to local authorities, in response to what they called an...

Indian police crack down on illegal liquor suppliers after 86 die

02 Aug 2020

Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday, after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol this week in the northwestern...

Hong Kong crackdown is dangerous for the world

11 Jul 2020

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in November. Then I...

US Congress condemns China for crackdown on ethnic Muslims

04 Dec 2019

Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday aimed at pressuring China over a brutal mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the far west of the country, legislation that follows a...

Hong Kong police seal off university, raising fears of crackdown

18 Nov 2019

Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters as they tried to escape a besieged university on Monday while hundreds more pro-democracy activists stayed inside armed with petrol bombs...

US Supreme Court allows Trump to deny asylum

12 Sep 2019

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to fully enforce a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the...

Russian opposition plans new election protest despite crackdown

03 Aug 2019

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...

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