Iranians Amirhossein Moradi, 26, Saeed Tamjidi, 28, and Mohamad Rajabi, 26, are seen in file photos provided by Amnesty International. All three men were sentenced to death in February 2020 for participating in anti-government protests in Iran in November of the previous year. International Amnesty Tehran – Several high-profile executions …
Read More »Bristol removes statue of Black Lives Matter protester who replaced monument to slave trader Edward Colston
London – The sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester who appeared on a pedestal formerly occupied by a statue of a slave trader, which was downed and thrown into a river last month in Bristol, England, was removed Thursday by the city. The city of Bristol has yet to …
Read More »Statue of UK slave trader Edward Colston replaced by one of Black Lives Matter protesters
London – The statue of a slave trader who was knocked down and thrown into a river Last month in Bristol, England, it was replaced overnight with a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester with a raised fist. The new Jen Reid statue, which helped bring down the 17th-century …
Read More »87 arrested after swarming Kentucky Daniel Cameron’s home in Louisville, Kentucky, in ‘Call to Action for Justice’ for Breonna Taylor
(Newser) – About 90 people were arrested Tuesday night in front of a house owned by the Kentucky attorney general after stopping what organizers considered a “call to action in search of justice” for Breonna Taylor. WDRB reports that protesters with the Up to Liberty social justice group gathered around …
Read More »Emmanuel Macron was approached by gilets jaunes while walking on Bastille Day | World News
Antigovernment jaunes vests (yellow vests) abused Emmanuel Macron while walking with his wife, Brigitte, on Bastille Day in a public garden in Paris, prompting calls from opposition leaders to increase security. The protesters clashed with the French president and his wife, Brigitte, as they walked with bodyguards in the Tuileries …
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