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Tareq Sydiq’s book “The New Protest Culture”Can protests transform society?
From Iran to the Last Generation, citizens in democracies and dictatorships alike are taking to the streets. Tareq Sydiq analyses these uprisings and asks why some fail while others dramatically change the system.
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Yemen's uprising, 10 years on: Half the population risks starvation
10 years after an uprising that called for an end to inequality, poverty and corruption, up to 16 million people in Yemen are on the brink of famine. The economy is destroyed, as are schools and hospitals across the country.
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Press freedom in Iraq: Why some journalists are receiving death threats
A year ago deadly rallies led to the resignation of then-prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. Today, it's not just the protest movement that's under threat. Some media outlets have been shut down, while a number of journalists have been detained or even received death threats.
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Discrimination against Muslims in India: mass protests against new citizenship law
Dozens of people have been killed as a result of protests against India's controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. Critics say the law is aimed at marginalising Muslims and goes against India's secular constitution.
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Sudanese protesters demand immediate civilian control
Protests in Sudan continue, despite promises from the new head of the country's military council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Burhan, following this week's coup. He has vowed to "uproot the old regime". But demonstrators remain unimpressed.
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Human Rights Watch: Egypt's new approach to fighting dissidents
Over the past year, Egypt's authorities have increasingly resorted to anti-terror and emergency laws as a means of crushing peaceful opposition to the government. Journalists and human rights activists continued to be persecuted, Human Rights Watch said in its latest World Report.
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Iranian Propaganda CinemaReversed Symbolism
The Iranian regime has supported the making of a big budget propaganda film, "The Golden Collars". In it, the 2009 Iranian uprising against the regime is presented as a malicious plot initiated by foreign spies and manipulated by the West in order to destabilize the country. Stefan Buchen on a crude piece of propaganda
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The Military's Attack on Egypt's CoptsA Call for Civil War
What began as a peaceful demonstration by thousands of Coptic Christians quickly escalated into a widespread attack by the military against the protesters. What we witnessed on Sunday evening in the streets of downtown Cairo was state-sponsored violence and murder. A commentary by Joseph Mayton
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Political Protests in Bahrain
The King's Revenge
Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has so far dealt with the protest movement in the Gulf state with the utmost severity. Now the monarch is increasingly coming under pressure to introduce democratic reforms. By Birgit Svensson