Sentences with phrase «arrest people protesting»

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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest in Iran, which has resulted in at least 21 deaths and hundreds arrested.

By the time the protest camp was dismantled that October, more than 800 people had been arrested.

With more than 200 people arrested on Burnaby Mountain in the last month in protests over the Kinder Morgan pipeline, climate hawk Tzeporah Berman...

There was a protest consisting of about 3000 people against a city - wide police raid of bath houses in which around 300 people were arrested.

When the pope comes to London next month, he is going to be greeted by substantial numbers of protests organized by people calling for his arrest and accusing him of the wildest hatreds.

More than 100 people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured during protests against police brutality in Minnesota on Saturday night going into Sunday morning.

Mr Tatchell was arrested under Section 5 in 1994 when he attended a protest against Islamic extremist group Hizb ut - Tahrir with a placard documenting the persecution of gay people.

Also at 9:30 a.m., Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, and 16 other people who were arrested protesting the deportation of immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir will appear before a judge, 100 Centre St., Manhattan.

Four people were arrested Thursday at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in D.C. following a sit - in protest.

Hawkins was one of 55 people arrested at the April 23 Cuomo Walk the Talk protest at the State Capitol on climate change.

Two NYC Council members — Inez Barron of Brooklyn and I. Daneek Miller of Queens — were among 41 people arrested yesterday during an union protest against CUNY cuts outside Cuomo's Midtown office.

Eight people were arrested outside the governor's Manhattan office after they blocked traffic during a protest over planned hikes on rent - controlled apartments, two days before a hearing that will determine the new monthly cost for tenants.

In the US more than a million people took part in protests up and down the country, including undocumented migrants who risked arrest and deportation.

It is an interesting turnaround for the budget talks, which come a day after 59 people were arrested outside of the governor's office protesting tax and spending cuts in the proposal.

59 people were arrested at the Capitol Thursday while protesting outside of governor Cuomo's office.

New York State Senator Tom Duane was arrested yesterday in an act of civil disobedience in protest of the veto of an HIV / AIDS funding bill vetoed by Governor David Paterson earlier this year, WNYC reports: «The bill would insure that poor people... Read

Five people were arrested in New York City last night in connection with protests against the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo..

A total of 86 people were arrested yesterday after a day of occasionally violent protests in London.

Assemblywoman Joan Millman was one of three people arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge last night as angry parents, doctors and nurses protested against the shuttering of the overnight pediatric wing at Long Island College Hospital.

The two Bronx officials, both of whom participated in the protest, related with disgust police «indiscriminately» shoving and arresting activists attempting to block the street, which resulted in 143 people being taken into custody.

At 6:30 p.m., People's Power Assemblies holds protest on the 1st anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, who died in a Waller County, TX, jail cell, following her arrest 10 Jul 2015 for an alleged assault after being pulled over for a minor traffic violation, B / Q Church Avenue Train Station, Brooklyn.

Already at least seven people have been killed and scores more injured or arrested during protests against an anti-Muslim film which has gone viral on the internet.

More than a dozen people were arrested in Manhattan last night while protesting two fatal police - involved shootings.

Police arrested 74 people — including two African - American reporters, one of whom was arrested on live TV — during a protest in Rochester.

The Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, has been arrested together with 12 other persons for allegedly staging an illegal protest in Accra.

READING — Former Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins was among 13 people arrested Tuesday morning while protesting at the gates of the Crestwood Midstream gas storage facility.

An additional 18 people were arrested that evening, as thousands marched from Foley Square to the Financial District in the biggest demonstration since the Occupy Wall Street protests began.

Black Lives Matter protests have not all been peaceful; more than 70 people were arrested in Rochester at a rally a little more than a week ago.

Specifically, the company cited weekly protests and the arrest of six people blocking the construction entrance.

A handful of Arewa youths on Wednesday staged a protest in Abuja, urging security agencies to arrest leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

About two dozen people intentionally blocked the entrance to the precinct to purposely get arrested for disorderly conduct as part of their protest, 1010 WINS Al Jones reported.

Hawkins was one of 55 people arrested during the Cuomo Walk the Talk climate action protest on April 23.

U.S. Capitol Police arrested 17 people protesting outside New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's office Monday.

The BBC's Brian Wheeler was in Westminster this evening, where four people were arrested during what police called an «unplanned» anti-austerity protest:

However, within a few months, we started to see people getting arrested and tortured — including students on campus — for participating in protests or speaking out on social media.

Hansen is one of more than 1,200 people who were arrested in front of the White House, protesting Keystone XL.

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History is being made right now in Ottawa, Canada as hundreds of people from across North America are risking arrest on Parliament Hill during a mass civil disobedience sit - in to protest tar sands development.

Here are the reactions to my post, starting with a note from Bill McKibben, who was among more than 1,200 people who were arrested in a White House protest aimed at convincing the president to reject the plan:

And that's why over 2,000 people have signed up to protest the XL, and are risking arrest outside the White House as I type these words.

Naidoo, who was recently arrested off Greenland for boarding an oil rig in the Arctic as apart of an act of civil disobedience, joined hundreds of people protesting a new coal plant in Chicago.

These protests — which involved 1,253 people arrested in civil disobedience acts against the pipeline in August and 12,000 people surrounding the White House in November — were also little - mentioned in U.S. media.

On August 15, 2011 fifteen people were arrested in St. Louis, Missouri while protesting the practices of Bank of America (BoA) and Peabody Energy.

Jim Hansen joined with the people and got himself arrested, too — not the first time he has been arrested in a coal protest.

Around 100 people are arrested outside the White House during a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining, including the NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen.

About 150 people have been arrested while peacefully protesting at the site to date.

McKibben, a Vermont writer and environmentalist, had been one of 1,252 people arrested in front of the White House in August and September, protesting the same pipeline.

In September, a month after he was one of the more than a thousand arrested in Washington, 350.org spearheaded «Moving Planet,» where people in more than 175 countries walked, ran, and biked in 2,000 events to protest the world's dependence on fossil fuels.

275 people have been arrested so far outside the White House, protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and there are ten days to go.

The peaceful protest of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is entering its fifth day, and over 200 people have now been arrested outside the White House in Washington D.C..