20 women arrested at protest in Somalia
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Women took to the streets of this strategic port town Tuesday to protest the arrival of a radical Islamic militia, one day after the militants opened fire on a larger protest here and killed a teenager.
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Hundreds of women protested on Tuesday against the abduction of a female US aid worker in southern Afghanistan and called on religious leaders to condemn the kidnapping.
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Sudanese police killed around 20  people and injured 40 on Saturday when they opened fire on  hundreds of demonstrators in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, a  local political leader said.
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At least 20 people were arrested Sunday while protesting a U.S.-run military school for Latin Americans, some of whose graduates they claim later committed civil rights abuses including murder.
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100,000 take part in biggest demonstrations for nearly 20 years but fears of crackdown grow.
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Twenty people allegedly linked to fighting around a refugee camp in Lebanon are charged with terrorism.
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A group of women accused of lynching a  suspected rapist win bail after big protests in the Indian city of Nagpur.
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Dozens of people protested Saturday against an Islamic militia that has seized much of southern Somalia, a day after the group appointed a new administration in the country's third largest city.
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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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Police detained 20 suspects after finding a series of arms caches believed to belong to Basque guerrilla group ETA in southwest France, officials said on Sunday.
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A group of 20 Afghan women offered on Thursday to take the place of three foreign UN workers held hostage for the past two weeks by a Taliban splinter group.
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French security forces have arrested 20 people suspected of being members of the outlawed Basque separatist group, Eta. Most were Spaniards living in the Basque region of south-western France.
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Another Bangladesh ex-minister was arrested while 20 other high-profile political figures were remanded in custody as part of a major anti-corruption crackdown, officials said.
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Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay during a mass protest in 2003, the military confirmed Monday.
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The Islamic militiamen controlling the Somali capital broke up a wedding celebration because a band was playing and women and men were socializing together, witnesses said Saturday, describing the latest crackdown by a group feared to be installing Taliban-style rule in this African nation.
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Pakistani authorities have detained hundreds of opposition party activists in advance of a day of protests against the government this week, opposition party officials said on Tuesday.
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TEHRAN -- Tensions between law enforcement officials and human rights activists ahead of today's annual commemoration of International Women's Day have led to dozens of arrests in the capital. The days around the commemoration have been a perennial rallying point for critics of government policies viewed by rights activists as sexist or discriminatory. This year, the conservative government of President ...