Demonstrators detained in Belarus rally
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Plainclothes agents broke up a Valentine's Day march by opposition activists expressing pro-European views, detaining about 10 people in the capital of the tightly controlled ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.
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Belarusian police have detained four people in connection with the July slaying of the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, Interfax reported.
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US citizen Illya Mafter is arrested in Belarus on fraud charges.
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Police blocked gay rights activists from holding a demonstration in the capital Wednesday and detained two of them despite the protest being authorized by city authorities.
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A Belarussian parliamentary official has backed the Minsk police force's actions to stop an unauthorized opposition rally in Minsk, but said policemen could have acted "less rigorously." "The country must ...
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Thousands of people across Spain took part in rallies called by the right wing opposition on Friday to protest the Socialists government's decision to allow a hunger-striking Basque separatist serve out his jail term under house arrest.
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More than a dozen activists who rallied in support of Georgia outside the country's embassy and accosted counter-protesters with taunts and eggs were arrested on Saturday.
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SRINAGAR, India  - Police in Indian Kashmir on Sunday detained at least 30 people protesting against alleged human rights violations by Indian security forces in the Himalayan region, police and witnesses said.
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Belarus' authoritarian president accused opposition leaders Friday of trying to foster chaos by using terror, as demonstrators protested for a fifth straight night in the capital against the referendum extending his term in office.
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A court in Minsk Wednesday hastily sentenced 11 protesters for participating in demonstrations over voting in Belarus last weekend, news agencies said.
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Police arrested dozens of people Sunday as they used tear gas and water cannons to break up a rally where Zimbabwe's main opposition leader planned to launch a presidential campaign, a spokesman for the opposition party said.
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Pakistani police detained opposition activists on Monday to stop them protesting in front of the Supreme Court as it resumed hearing challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's plans for re-election.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday voters had shown overwhelming support for his plan to stay in power, but hundreds took to the streets to protest against what they said was a rigged ...
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by ...
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More than 100 people are detained at a Moscow protest rally against migrants from the Caucasus.
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The Foreign Ministry issued a formal protest on Friday over security for Belarusians participating in student programs in the United States after two students were killed.
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Police briefly detained Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Monday for the third time in two weeks, accusing him of drug trafficking, his spokesman said.