The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on Tuesday lectured Canada on its hypocrisy for denouncing China’s ruthless suppression of the Hong Kong democracy movement in 2019, but using similar iron-fisted tactics to smash the Freedom Convoy protest movement in 2022.
Candice Sero, the woman trampled by mounted police last Friday when they moved in to break up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, gave an interview to Canada’s Rebel News published on Monday.
Convoy organizer Bob Bolus says a trucker convoy will shut down Washington, DC’s beltway later this week to protest pandemic mandates while keeping a path for emergency vehicles, Fox 5 DC reported.
Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to sign off on a new bill that will ban so-called ‘anti-vaxxer’ protests from taking place at jab centres and schools.
The Canadian authorities have made dozens more arrests in the capital city of Ottawa as they move to crush the anti-vaccine mandate Freedom Convoy.
Politicians in Montreal expressed concern over police officers displaying pro-police Thin Blue Line symbols during a protest last weekend.
The Canadian parliament in Ottawa cancelled its Friday sitting as police action in the area began against the Freedom Convoy.
The city of Ottawa threatened in a statement Thursday to place the pets of Freedom Convoy protestors into “protective care” or possibly take them away permanently if their owners are arrested.
Students at a California high school staged a massive walk out on Tuesday protesting the district’s mask mandate after elitists in the state were seen maskless at the Super Bowl.
Freedom Convoy protesters voluntarily dismantled their blockade of the Coutts border crossing in Alberta province Tuesday, the day after Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized a cache of weapons in a morning raid, and Premier Jason Kenney asked protesters to go home before the blockade escalated into violence.
French police have squared off with protesters attempting to establish a Canadian-style convoy in Paris in response to coronavirus measures.
Paris police intercepted at least 500 vehicles attempting to enter the French capital inspired by Canada’s horn-honking “Freedom Convoy.”
Police in Paris have deployed barricades, heavy equipment, and armoured vehicles as a freedom convoy is set to descend on the city.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said on Wednesday he has no idea when the Freedom Convoy trucker protests that have clogged the streets of the Canadian capital for the past two weeks will end.
DHS issued a warning to law enforcement agencies that a U.S. trucker convoy protesting vaccine mandates could begin in California on Sunday.
Seventy-five maskless high school students on Thursday were reportedly rounded up by Ballston Spa High School’s principal and deposited into the library after protesting New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s continued school mask mandate.
Matthew Luloff, an Ottawa City Councilman, told American taxpayer-funded NPR that the “Freedom Convoy” protests against coronavirus-related mandates in the city were fueled by “miscreants” embracing “hate symbols,” which defies on-the-ground reports showing peaceful demonstrations attracting people of all ages.
A court in Germany has ruled that a ban on anti-lockdown walks implemented by a local authority was illegal and that the federal powers involved had not provided enough evidence to adequately justify the restrictions on public gathering.
Supporters of Canada’s anti-mandate, trucker-led Freedom Convoy movement shut down traffic on the Ambassador Bridge on Monday. Located between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, the bridge is part of the busiest border crossing between Canada and the United States.
Much of the American and Canadian media establishment is laboring to portray the Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates in Canada as a small but loud group of fringe extremists. Photos from cities across Canada this weekend demonstrated the true size and diversity of the movement, which is clearly more than just a handful of truckers honking their horns in Ottawa.
Truckers in the Canadian Freedom Convoy are lauding the efforts of their fellow citizens and protestors on the ground in Ottawa.
The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, which represents the population of the occupied region, organized a protest and memorial observance on Saturday for the victims of China’s ongoing genocide in the region.
Tibetan exiles and supporters of Tibetan freedom gathered outside Chinese embassies, Olympic headquarters, and NBC studios to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, derided by critics as the “Genocide Games” because the event risks validating Communist China’s brutal suppression of minorities like the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims.
Ottawa police have announced they will be implementing a “surge and contain strategy” ahead of a predicted surge of protestors this weekend.
Alberta’s ruling Conservatives denied members had negotiated with anti-mandate truckers, but noted that vax passports could end within days.
Tens of thousands once again took to the streets of Germany on Monday to protest the nation’s lockdown restrictions.
Australian truckers used social media over the weekend to plan their own “Freedom Convoy” similar to the one in Canada, telling supporters they should “swarm to Canberra to protest mandates and restrictions” on Monday.
Truckers protesting the Canadian government’s vaccine mandate are converging on Ottawa, a fundraiser for the convoy raising over $4m.
Farmers, cattle-breeders, and hunters descended Sunday on the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest the government’s green agenda.
Thousands of people marched through central London to protest against the impending vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in England.
COVID passports are reportedly set to be scrapped this month in Britain amid waning cases of the Chinese coronavirus in the UK.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday argued that political stability in neighboring Kazakhstan is a vital Chinese national security interest.
Chinese state media announced on Monday that Maj. Gen. Peng Jingtang of the People’s Armed Police Force (PAP) has been named as the new commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in Hong Kong. Peng’s experience “fighting terorrism in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” was ominously touted as one of his major qualifications.
The United Nations on Monday objected to Kazakhstan’s use of blue U.N. peacekeeper helmets on some of the troops it deployed to suppress protests over the weekend.
China offered increased “law enforcement and security” support for Kazakhstan on Sunday, to help it suppress the remainder of the protest movement that broke out on January 1 and was brutally crushed with Russian military assistance over the weekend.
Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of “Corona Apartheid” continues to operate in the EU country.
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whose country sits on the United Nations Human Rights Council, on Friday ordered his security forces – reinforced over the past few days with Russian paratroopers – to shoot demonstrators in cold blood, without warning.
Kazakhstan’s fuel riots escalated dramatically on Wednesday, as dozens of police and protesters were killed in street battles across western Kazakhstan and Almaty, the nation’s largest city. Russian state media claimed one of the 12 law enforcement officers killed was beheaded. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent paratroopers into Kazakhstan on Thursday to restore order.
Protesters from New York’s Tibetan, Hongkonger, Southern Mongolian, and Kazakh communities and their allies rallied outside of Rockefeller Center on Tuesday demanding that NBC drop its coverage of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Video footage has emerged appearing to show a police dog mauling a man at an anti-lockdown protest held in Amsterdam on Sunday.
