Opposition Activists Detained Ahead of Protest in Moscow
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MOSCOW, Dec. 16 -- Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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Members of a radical, right-wing political party briefly seized a Kremlin-controlled building Tuesday in downtown Moscow to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin, a security official 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 petitions against President Pervez Musharraf's plans for re-election.
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Gay rights activists in Russia vow to march in Moscow despite a ban and a planned counter-demonstration.
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Russia's opposition pledges to go ahead with a Moscow protest against President Putin despite a ban.
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Security is tight in the Bangladesh capital as tens and thousands of opposition supporters prepared to rally near the presidential palace to demand a delay of next month's elections.
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A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday Â the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.
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ST. PETERSBURG, March 3 -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's home town.
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Dozens of students are detained after police quash protests in Santiago, ahead of an Apec conference.
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Lawyers for imprisoned Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner were briefly detained at a Moscow airport Sunday, a day before new charges were expected to be filed against their clients, one of the attorneys said.
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Law enforcement officers searched an opposition group's office in Moscow, an activist said.
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Russian law enforcement officials have  detained two Chechens on suspicion of killing investigative  reporter Anna Politkovskaya, pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya  Pravda reported on Saturday.
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Russian police detained gay protesters calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals" punched and kicked the demonstrators.
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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is briefly held by police, hours before a banned march in Harare.
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Chess champion Garry Kasparov and allies in Russia's most vocal opposition movement held their latest showdown Monday with President Vladimir Putin's government, keeping up their frequent protests with a demonstration in central Moscow.
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Â· Police stand by as thousands gather Â· Kremlin claims coming elections will be fair
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More than 70 people are held in Moscow as activists try to hold the city's first gay rights rally despite a ban.