Civil Protest & Disorder

Army faces inquiry over ‘Battle of Danny Boy’ torture claims

Claims that British soldiers tortured and murdered up to 20 prisoners after a battle with Iraqi insurgents are to be scrutinised at a public inquiry. Concern that the Army covered up the most serious accusation of war crimes...

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Scots protests saved TV favourite Scooby-Doo from being scrapped

Nov 21 2009 Samantha Booth SCOOBY-DOO celebrates his 40th birthday this year, so it is incredible to think that the cartoon might have vanished from our screens just a couple of years after the show was first aired. And some...

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...and Finally... Milestone Or Millstone?

So happy 15th birthday SchNEWS! - and issue 700 falls on the same week. A big thank you to everyone who has been involved in SchNEWS, past and present. In 1994, when the Justice? campaign were campaigning against the Criminal...

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Nae To Nato

There was nearly a week of actions and events in Edinburgh this week in protest against the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Here’s a round-up: Friday: A group of around 30-40 gathered at the meeting place for a demo, and after a...

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UC students protest 32 percent fee hike by occupying campus buildings in Berkeley, Santa Cruz

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts were removed late Friday, bringing the...

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Mubarak Vows Not to Tolerate Attacks on Egyptians

Egyptian riot policemen stand next to a damaged car as hundreds of demonstrators gathered for the second day in a row to protest near the Algerian embassy in Cairo. (AFP) Egyptian riot policemen stand guard during a violent...

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David Ignatius: The U.S. may again try a tribal strategy

While military officers wait for President Obama to conclude his agonizingly slow review of Afghanistan policy, they've been reading a paper by an Army Special Forces operative arguing that the only hope for success in that...

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Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protest outside Intel office in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators gathered Saturday afternoon at Jerusalem's Givat Moshe neighborhood to protest over the operation of an Intel chip factory during Shabbat in the nearby Har...

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Afghan police are weak link in security strategy

Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go...

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Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) - The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection...

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