Police brutality

Opponents of the Indian citizenship law, considered discriminatory against Muslims, have raised new protests today, BTA reported.

There were clashes between thousands of protesters and police officers in the capital New Delhi.

The security forces used tear gas to repel protesters, who were piling up barricades and were throwing stones at the police.

Four public transport buses in the capital were set on fire, while others were seriously damaged in mass protests against the new citizenship act.

Police are using tear gas against students at Jamia Millia Islamia University in the southern part of the capital. More than 100 activists and 35 police officers, including some senior officers, were injured.

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas to force protesters away from Baghdad's Green Zone on Oct. 26 ahead of a planned parliament session, AFP correspondents said, a day after 42 demonstrators were killed.    

Hundreds of thousands of people protested Wednesday against social inequalities in Chile, despite reforms announced by President Sebastian Pinera, BTA reports.

Three people died in the last 24 hours. This was announced by the Ministry of Interior. Thus, the total number of victims of the protests reached 18.

Students clashed with police in central Athens on Friday during a protest against reforms to the higher education system by the country's conservative government.
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse protesters when they tried to break a police cordon barring access to the Parliament building.

Thousands of protesters regrouped after police fired tear gas at them on Sept. 29 and marched along a thoroughfare in downtown Hong Kong in a second straight day of defiance, sparking fears of more violence ahead of China's National Day.

At least 90 people have been detained in Paris during another protest of the "Yellow Vests" movement, BTA reported.

Police officers checked more than 1,200 people and fined 104 people for trying to organize protests in unauthorized locations.

"The issue of freedom of speech in Croatia has never really been fully resolved, nor is Croatian society mature enough to lead such discussion," Duhacek told BIRN, noting the different criteria by which people can be prosecuted in the country for written or spoken words.

Satirical song 'offended nation's morals':

Photo: Illustration. EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN.

The Greek Police (ELAS) is investigating police brutality claims in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia, after a video emerged of a man crying out loudly for help while surrounded by several officers in full riot gear.

Washington on June 5 called on Sudan's military rulers to "desist from violence" and urged talks with protesters to resume, after doctors said 108 people had been killed in a crackdown.