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Police prevent May protest in Istanbul

Tear gas, scuffles with the police and arrests – in Istanbul police officers prevent a march to Taksim Square to mark May Day. Demonstrations are forbidden there – the place has symbolic power. The Turkish police prevented a May Day protest march to the symbolically important Taksim Square in the metropolis of Istanbul. They used […]

Police beat demonstrators against “Russian law”.

Read video transcript Violent riots in Georgia. In the Georgian capital Tbilisi, around 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets against a planned law. The police then used water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades against the demonstrators. There were apparently also isolated violent clashes. The following images show explicit violence. Video footage shows security forces […]

Friend of Navalny and Kremlin critic attacked

Leonid Volkov was apparently attacked in front of his home. The Kremlin critic was sprayed with tear gas and beaten. Kremlin critic and friend of the recently deceased Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov, was attacked in front of his home in Vilnius, Lithuania. This was announced by Kira Yarmysch, Navalny’s spokeswoman, on the X platform. She […]

Riots at Eritrean meetings in The Hague

The mayor declares a state of emergency and the police use tear gas to combat the unrest: There was a serious clash in The Hague. Serious riots broke out at a meeting of Eritreans in The Hague, Netherlands. There were violent clashes between two groups of Eritreans in which stones were thrown, the police said […]