Burma activists charged over demo
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Burma's military rulers file criminal charges against 10 activists involved in last year's protests.
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Burma's monks call on the public to join their demonstrations, as anti-government protests mount.
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Eighteen people appear in court in Queensland, charged in connection with a violent protest on Friday.
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Burmese police beat protesters including monks at a pagoda at the heart of anti-junta unrest, reports say.
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Burmaâs military junta released at least 19 political prisoners today, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.
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Political activists set fire to two election commission offices in Bangladesh on Tuesday, as a 14-party alliance began a new campaign to force the removal of top election officials.
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Police in China have arrested rights activist Hu Jia and charged him with inciting subversion in a crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics next year, another activist and a rights group said Saturday.
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Hundreds of Burmese monks march in Rangoon, in the latest of a series of protests against the government.
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A top U.N. rights envoy condemned on  Wednesday the arrest and jailing of opposition activists in  military-ruled Myanmar and said he had received credible  reports of rights violations in border areas.
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An opposition Ugandan MP is charged with sedition after calling for Kenya-style protests.
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BEIJING, Feb. 1 -- Hu Jia, an online human rights activist detained last month, has been formally charged with inciting subversion against the Chinese government, human rights groups reported Friday.
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Thousands of monks and civilians march against Burma's military rulers amid tear gas and baton charges.
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Myanmar&#39;s junta was interrogating 13 activists arrested for organising a rally against the regime over its massive hike in fuel prices ahead of likely legal action, state media said Saturday.
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The Security Council calls for restraint as several people are reported killed in Burma's crackdown on protests.
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About 200 Buddhist monks staged a brief demonstration in Myanmar on Friday, the fourth day of protests in the country, witnesses said. A day earlier, nearly 1,000 monks and thousands of citizens marched, the largest challenge in a decade to the iron-fisted junta that rules the nation.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- After nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks Wednesday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons and making scores of arrests to suppress anti-government marchers.
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.