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Byline: Victor Edozie, Port Harcourt The crisis surrounding the expiration of local government chairmen's tenure in Rivers State on June 17 escalated on Monday as youths in several local government [...]

HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong government on Wednesday canceled the passports of six overseas-based activists under the https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-new-security-law-explainer-633e91d7d3aef09381b349282a7dec1f, stepping up its crackdown on dissidents who moved abroad. Those [...]

LONDON (AP) — Animal rights activists pasted a cartoon image over a https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-iii-britain-portrait-jonathan-yeo-a588c5548bb8b902bd2e3539334991a6 on Tuesday at a London art gallery, the latest in a series of incidents at U.K. museums [...]

Byline: Olakunle Olasanmi A group of human rights activists has approached the High Court in Makurdi, Benue State, to challenge the recent public order law the state government enacted. The [...]

Byline: Jasper Rees In recent times British climate activists have thrown soup at art and blocked carriageways to raise awareness about fossil fuels. Although the law grows increasingly intolerant, they [...]

AMHERST, Mass. -- The following information was released by the University of Massachusetts - Amherst: The new poll also finds tepid support for pro-Palestinian protests that have taken place on [...]

Byline: Annika Bereny One month after the May 1 law enforcement raid on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's pro-Palestine encampment, distrust in campus administration from students sympathetic to the protests remains [...]

Byline: Annika Bereny One month after the May 1 law enforcement raid on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's pro-Palestine encampment, distrust in campus administration from students sympathetic to the protests remains [...]

(https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/hong-kong) Hong Kong on Thursday convicted 14 democracy activists and acquitted two others who had been accused of subversion under a national national security law imposed by (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/china) China that [...]

Byline: Abbey Soukup May 17Days ahead of Sunday's Colorado College commencement, pro-Palestinian protests on campus have come to a halt as students dismantled an encampment Wednesday afternoon. The fenced-in encampment [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse mark.niesse@ajc.com Conservative activists are preparing to question the validity of thousands of Georgia voter registrations this summer, an election-year effort under the state’s new voter challenge law.The [...]

Byline: Sui-Lee Wee Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, supported abolishing the law that prohibits criticizing royalty and wanted to push the authorities to stop jailing political activists. To Netiporn Sanesangkhom, the right [...]

Byline: Damien Gayle Environment correspondent Three climate activists have been convicted of 'interference with key national infrastructure' by marching in the road in west London for 20 minutes, in the [...]

Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, supported abolishing the law that prohibits criticizing royalty and wanted to push the authorities to stop jailing political activists. To Netiporn Sanesangkhom, the right to dissent and [...]

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has convened a high-level meeting today to discuss the ongoing situation in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as the negotiations between the protesters and the state [...]

Byline: Damien Gayle Three Just Stop Oil supporters have appeared in what is thought to be the first trial brought under wide-ranging powers introduced last year to curb protest. Phoebe [...]

Joe Biden yesterday condemned the unrest and violence that has disrupted college campuses over the last week, while stressing the importance of the right of Americans to protest peacefully in [...]

Byline: Lili Bayer in Brussels Watchdogs and western governments have condemned a police crackdown on protesters in Georgia who are calling for the withdrawal of a 'foreign agents' bill that [...]

Byline: Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles Police cracked down on a pro-Palestine demonstration at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, early Tuesday morning, clearing two buildings that protesters had occupied since [...]

Byline: Matthew Weaver A French publisher who was arrested in London on terrorism charges has been awarded 'substantial' damages by the Metropolitan police, as new figures reveal thousands of foreign [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff; Reis Thebault; Richard Morgan; Niha Masih Clashes between pro-Palestinian student protesters and police intensified at colleges across the nation Wednesday, as university officials aggressively cracked down on [...]

(https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/florida) Florida Gov. (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/ron-desantis) Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday putting new restrictions on the number of challenges that residents without kids could lodge against books in public schools. Speaking [...]

Trudi Warner is, in many ways, an unlikely rebel. The 69-year-old former child mental health social worker is, in her retirement, a keen organic grower, and spent part of last [...]

Byline: Amy Hawkins and Helen Davidson in Taipei 'Ideas are bulletproof'. Three words, stamped out in multicolour tiles above a doorway, represented one of the last vestiges of Hong Kong's [...]

The city enacted tough new security legislation with little public outcry, partly because those who would have opposed it were either in jail or in exile. In 2019, Hong Kong [...]

Legislators in Hong Kong have approved a new national security law - (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/19/hong-kong-legislature-passes-tough-new-national-security-law) referred to as Article 23 -- that gives the government new powers to crack down on all [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- A computer programmer who was allegedly abused while in Chinese custody took the stand Wednesday in Hong Kong in a high-profile national-security case [...]

Byline: Damien Gayle Attempts by the government to capture more groups in its official definition of extremism risk fuelling the very extremism it claims to be trying to oppose, Greenpeace [...]