Monday, February 2, 2015

January 22 – 30, 2015: Protests


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A protester holds a bat puppet with the number 43 during a march marking the fourth month since the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers' college, in Mexico City, Monday, January 26, 2015. Prosecutors have said police kidnapped the students on Sept. 26 in the southern state of Guerrero and handed them over to drug gang members, who killed them and burned the bodies, but protesters said Monday the government has failed to clear up doubts. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)



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A woman covers her mouth with strips that read "no penal code" as she takes part in a demonstration called by the "Dignity Marches" platform against the new public security law, dubbed "ley mordaza" (gag law), in Madrid on January 25, 2015. The lower house of Spanish parliament passed this law, on December 12, 2014, with the only affirmative votes of the ruling Popular Party (PP). (Photo by Dani Pozo/AFP Photo)



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Protesters throw stones toward police in riot gear guarding the government building in Kosovo, Pristina on Saturday, January 24, 2015. Kosovo police in riot gear used tear gas to disperse a stone throwing crowd during a demonstration by several thousand people demanding that the government dismiss one of its three Serb ministers, accusing him of insulting the ethnic Albanian majority. (Photo by Visar Kryeziu/AP Photo)



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Protestors throw bricks and stones as they clash with riot police during a demonstration in Pristina on January 27, 2015. Several people were injured, including at least four police officers, when Kosovo police clashed with thousands of violent protesters demanding the dismissal of a Serb minister accused of insulting the ethnic-Albanian majority. Police fired tear gas, chasing protesters and clashing with them after a few thousand supporters of the nationalistic Self-Determination opposition party tried to break into the government building in the centre of the capital Pristina. (Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP Photo)



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Pakistani protesters burn tires to condemn a blast at a Shiite mosque, Friday, January 30, 2015 in Karachi, Pakistan. The bomb ripped through a mosque in Pakistan belonging to members of the Shiite minority sect of Islam just as worshippers were gathering for Friday prayers, killing dozens of people and wounding many others, officials said. (Photo by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)



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A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Justice" by law enforcement officers standing guard near the funeral home where a private wake is held for prosecutor Alberto Nisman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, January 28, 2015. The prosecutor was scheduled to appear before congress the day after he was found dead in his apartment on Jan. 18, to detail his allegations that President Cristina Fernandez had conspired to protect some of the Iranian suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center. The man who gave Nisman the gun that killed him said Wednesday that Nisman feared for the safety of his daughters and didn't trust the policemen protecting him. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)



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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw stones at Israeli troops during clashes near Israel's Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah January 23, 2015. (Photo by Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)



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A demonstrator attacks a Caixa bank branch during a protest against fare hikes for city buses, subway and trains in Sao Paulo January 23, 2015. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)



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Protesters celebrate following the repeal of the new Youth Labour Law, close to Peru's Congress in Lima January 26, 2015. Peru's Congress repealed a new labor law on Monday after thousands took to the streets to protest the legislation that cut benefits for young workers, part of reforms aimed at reviving the economy.The reversal dealt a blow to Humala's pro-business measures in the midst of the worst economic slowdown in five years. (Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)



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Code Pink demonstrators surround former United States Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger (L) and George Shultz (R) before the beginning of the Senate Armed Services Committee on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy on Capitol Hill in Washington January 29, 2015. (Photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)



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Protesters chant anti-government slogans while holding a poster of Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim with the words, "Wanted, the killer of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh" during a protest by women at the same location in central Cairo where activist Shaimaa Sabbagh was killed during a protest on Saturday, January 29, 2015, one day before the anniversary of the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. A group of women protested in Cairo on Thursday against the death of Sabbagh and around 25 other activists allegedly killed by security forces at recent rallies marking the anniversary of Egypt's 2011 uprising. Sabbagh, 32, died on Saturday as riot police were trying to break up a small, peaceful demonstration. Friends said she was shot and images of her bleeding body rippled out across social media, sparking outrage and condemnation. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)



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A Palestinian stands near a burning tyre outside a United Nations office during a protest against the U.N. decision to suspend payments for Palestinians, whose houses were damaged during a 50-day war last summer, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip January 29, 2015. The main U.N. aid agency in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday a lack of international funding had forced it to suspend payments to tens of thousands of Palestinians for repairs to homes damaged in last summer's war. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)



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A man wearing a mask crosses a bridge during an anti-fracking protest in Preston, northern England January 28, 2015. A local English government council has voted to delay a decision on whether shale gas firm Cuadrilla can progress with two fracking projects, in a case that is being closely watched by the industry and environmental campaigners. (Photo by Darren Staples/Reuters)



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Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP) activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh receives help after she was shot during a protest by the party in Cairo January 24, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper)



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A parent of pupils at St. Catherine's primary school stand behind a Kenyan national flag as she and others march toward the office of the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development to protest against alleged land grabbing of the school's playground in Nairobi, Kenya, January 28, 2015. The protesters and activists accused the private development company of grabbing the school's land. "The rightful owner (of the land) is St Catherine's school. I will instruct my officers to enjoin the Ministry in the matter to ensure that the school secures its land", the Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu said after meeting with parents of pupils who are predominantly from the poor slum in the area. The demonstration came nine days after another protest against land grabbing at Langata Road primary school in Nairobi in which the police is being condemned and investigated for tear gassing pupils who participated in a protest. (Photo by Dai Kurokawa/EPA)



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