World Popular Resistance Clippings 8/5/2013

 

Liberia: Eviction Play – in Cooper’s Family E.L.W.A Land Saga, Residents Riot, Reject Action

Normal activities in the ELWA Robertsfield Highway Community Tuesday came to a standstill as a result of a protest action staged by some residents of the community. Some aggrieved residents of the area who are victims of a Supreme [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 6/5/2013

 

Police Seal-off UNZA as Student Set Fire in Protest

Police in Lusaka have sealed-off part of Great East Road after University of Zambia students set fire and stoned motorists in protest of reported increase in tuition fees.

It is the second riot the Zambia Police has had to deal with in a day [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 11/4/2013

 

Army beefs up security at jail holding top rebels

The 303rd Infantry Brigade has beefed up the forces of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to secure the Negros Occidental District Jail in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, where a notorious rebel leader and his wife are detained on non-bailable charges, its commander, [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 23/2/2013

 

Experts urge Arab nations to train forces in ‘crowd control’

Defence experts who say many lives could have been saved during Arab uprisings if states used proper crowd control measures sought to tap into a growing market at an Abu Dhabi arms fair. Anti-riot vehicles with sophisticated acoustic repellents have boldly taken their [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 23/11/2012

French Riot Police Swoop on Nantes Airport Site Protesters

About 500 French riot police swooped on anti-airport demonstrators in an early-morning raid. Gendarmes fired teargas and scuffled with some of the hundreds of protesters who have been occupying the area earmarked for the new Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport, near the city of Nantes in western France, [...]

Another inmate charged in deadly Miss. prison riot

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Another inmate has been charged with participating in a deadly prison riot in Mississippi. One guard was killed and 20 people were injured in the May 20 riot at the privately-run Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, which holds illegal immigrants convicted of crimes in the U.S. Pedro Gonzalez De Los [...]

Migrants in prison protest ‘infiltrators law’

A few hundred African migrants protested against the ‘infiltrators law’ last week, sending back meals for a couple days to protest the law that allows for them to be jailed for up to three years without trial for illegally entering Israel, the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) said Monday.

IPS spokeswoman Sivan Weitzman said that between [...]

Inmate indicted for role in Adams Co. prison riot

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted an inmate who authorities have identified as an alleged instigator of the May 20 prison riot at the Adams County Correctional Center that left a guard dead. The Natchez Democrat reports ( ) that Yoany Oriel Serrano-Bejarano has been charged with instigating and conspiring to [...]

Mass. inmates transferred after protest

DARTMOUTH, Mass. (WPRI) — In order to exercise caution, immigration officials have transferred approximately 60 detainees from a Bristol County jail. About 90 inmates broke more than a dozen sprinklers and refused to go into their cells at the Dartmouth House of Corrections last Wednesday. The detainees were protesting a recent change of operations related [...]

Moscow Police Fight Off 100 Migrant Workers

Several Moscow policemen were in for a scare of their lives when a crowd of foreigners attacked them for arresting several migrant workers, city police said on Saturday.

Six Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan merchants were detained for unauthorized trading in central Moscow on Friday, police said on its Web site.

But some 100 of their fellows [...]