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Algerian authorities sentenced a man to three years in prison on Monday for his satirical social media posts mocking Algeria’s government and state religion, Islam, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.

A top human rights envoy said authorities should have avoided the use of excessive force in policing recent demonstrations.

India’s foreign minister will skip a Canada-led coronavirus meeting after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued comments in support of ongoing farmer protests in India, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported on Monday.

At least 81 people were arrested as mass protests and riots broke out on the streets of Paris against a proposed law that would criminalise the filming of police in France.

President Donald Trump thrilled a supporter rally Saturday in Washington, DC, as he drove by the group on the way to the golf course.

Antifa protesters shouted chants of, “No Borders. No Walls. No U.S.A. at all,” during a demonstration in Denver, CO, on Wednesday evening.

An Antifa protester in New York walked towards a band of police and taunted them. When the cops started to steadily walk towards him, he got scared and ran away — nearly being struck by a vehicle as he fled.

A vigil in Tehran for a late Iranian musician outside the hospital where he died morphed into an anti-government protest on Thursday night. Videos posted to social media appear to show people chanting “death to the dictator” during the demonstration.

The protest that ended at the White House was organized by BLEXIT founders Candace Owens and ex-police officer Brandon Tatum.

The president spoke at an airport rally in Bemidji, Minnesota, outdoors near an airport hanger with a big crowd of supporters.

The archbishop of San Francisco is urging Catholics to “Free the Mass” and publicly demonstrate against the coronavirus restrictions on worship.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) claims citizens with “automatic rifles” showed up on her lawn when President Donald Trump focused on her refusal to reopen her state after the coronavirus shutdown.

Hundreds of people across the country held “Back the Blue” rallies over Labor Day weekend to show their support for law enforcement.

Eight people were arrested on Friday when a group of 150 rioters smashed windows and vandalized the storefronts of lower Manhattan banks and chain stores in New York City, police said.

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Iran’s security forces of using torture to extract confessions, saying hundreds of people have been jailed since a sweeping crackdown against protests last year.

A teenager who put together a Black Lives Matter protest in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, said she was billed nearly $2,500 for police overtime by the mayor, prompting anger from civil liberties advocates who pressured the town’s mayor to rescind the bill.

Uyghur Muslims protested on Friday in Washingto, DC, against the persecution of Uyghurs and other religious minorities in Communist China.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on Tuesday in Kentucky, including far-left, anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour.

Anti-police protesters clashed with officers outside the Denver Police Department’s (DPD) headquarters on Saturday.

A group of migrants blocked a road near the famous “hot gates” of Thermopylae in Greece on Monday morning to protest living conditions at a nearby migrant camp.

A “Freedom Day” rally in the Australian city of Melbourne on Sunday that drew anti-mask protesters onto the streets of the Victorian state capital ended with seven arrests and dozens more fines issued to participants.

Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best advised her city’s business owners and residents that local police will not “risk their personal safety to protect property” after a ban issued by the city council of “less lethal tools” — such as pepper spray — for the purposes dispersing crowds to control rioters.

One person was killed after shots were fired Saturday night at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas, local police said.

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday in Bangkok to demand Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha “step down and dissolve the parliament” amid accusations his government’s stringent lockdown measures and “sweeping power” have compromised citizens’ democratic freedoms, local news outlet Coconuts Bangkok reported on Monday.

A group of track and field athletes said Friday they had been oppressed and denied the “right” to public dissent for too long, demanding the International Olympic Committee (IOC) annul a rule that bars political protests at the Olympic Games.

TEL AVIV — Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday night to protest the government’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic in what was later described by the country’s deputy health minister as a “health terror attack.”

Dutch police arrested dozens of farmers Wednesday who were protesting government plans to cut emissions of nitrogen oxide.

Hundreds of protesters returned Friday to the home of the couple who confronted demonstrators with firearms on June 28 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Black Lives Matter and indigenous groups turned the Fourth of July into an occasion for protest against the country itself on Saturday, with demonstrations in several cities in California and elsewhere.

Black Lives Matter protests joined anti-Israel demonstrators in a nationwide “Day of Rage” on Wednesday that included calls for Israel’s destruction and claims that Israel murders children, an allusion to medieval antisemitic blood libels.

“If we don’t get no justice, they don’t get no peace,” tweeted one account promoting the event.

Black Lives Matter activists are back for another night of protests in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump on Friday defended the NFL’s plans to return in the fall to play football despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of people crowded the streets of New York and Los Angeles on Sunday to join protests on behalf of black transgender people, in a nationwide set of demonstrations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

“I won’t be watching much anymore!” Trump wrote.

“Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) protesters in Seattle on Thursday forced out police officers from the area as they continued to occupy several blocks of the city including the police precinct building.