Riot police engaged in a running battle with angry protesters outside Barcelona’s airport Monday after Spain’s Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoting Catalonian independence and sentenced nine of them to prison.
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The teenager who was the first victim of police gunfire in Hong Kong’s months-long pro-democracy protests was charged Thursday with rioting and attacking police.
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Charges were read Wednesday against more than 20 Hong Kong protesters who have been accused of rioting — the most serious charge brought since mass demonstrations began in the city last month.
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Two lawsuits filed Tuesday allege that South Carolina corrections officials violated prisoners’ constitutional rights by failing to prevent a riot in which seven inmates were killed last year.
Read moreChina’s government strongly backed Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s embattled administration Tuesday, saying the occupation and vandalizing of the city’s legislature by pro-democracy protesters amounted to “serious illegal acts” that endangered the social order.
Read moreThe U.S. Marshals Service said it will conduct an internal review after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation finishes its investigation into a task force’s fatal shooting of a 20-year-old black man it was trying to arrest Wednesday night, which sparked riots that injured 25 police officers.
Read moreA federal judge in Los Angeles dropped all charges against three men charged with inciting riots across California as part of a white nationalist group, finding their actions were protected speech.
Read moreForty-two inmates were killed at three prisons in the capital of Brazil’s northern Amazonas state Monday, authorities said, a day after 15 died during fighting among prisoners at a fourth prison in the city.
Read moreIndonesia’s President Joko Widodo said Wednesday that authorities have the volatile situation in the capital Jakarta under control after six people died in riots by supporters of his rival in last month’s presidential election.
Read moreThe Northern Ireland Police Service said Tuesday they have arrested a woman under the Terrorism Act in connection with the slaying of journalist Lyra McKee.
Read moreA riot against police broke out Thursday night in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry, long a center of sectarian conflict, and a 29-year-old journalist covering the unrest was shot to death, authorities said.
Read moreWhen the government puts increasing constraints on free speech through protests, litigation remains as an avenue of expression – and that’s the route the American Civil Liberties Union took Thursday in response to South Dakota’s slew of anti-protest laws, including the recently passed “Riot-Boosting Act.”
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice claims against the University of California, Berkeley, stemming from riots that erupted after the school canceled a speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017, but allowed claims against two UC Berkeley police officers handling the crowd to continue.
Read moreAfter 30 months and a sprawling investigation into a neo-Nazi rally that turned violent in California, the arraignment of three counterprotesters was delayed Wednesday amid talk of a possible plea deal.
Read moreA politically charged criminal trial of 12 Catalan independence leaders opened Tuesday in the Spanish capital of Madrid, riveting a nation consumed by political upheaval and division over Barcelona’s secessionist demands.
Read moreA California man with alleged ties to a white nationalist group that incited riots across the state last year was released on bond Friday.
Read moreA 22-year-old California man accused of being a member of a “combat-ready” white nationalist group pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday in connection to a violent brawl at a 2017 political protest in which several people were attacked.
Read moreA man arrested for his alleged ties to a California white nationalist group that incited riots across the state last year was denied bail by a federal judge on Friday.
Read moreThree members of a California white nationalist group appeared in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday after the FBI arrested them for organizing and participating in riots across the state.
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