#mass-protests

#mass-protests

Mass protests in Nepal and Madagascar toppled both governments this year, even when the young people at the forefront of the demonstrations were faced with heavily armed police and the threat of arrest. Many called 2025 the year of the protest although the revolution in Bangladesh in 2024 that unseated the authoritarian leader Sheikh Hasina is often credited with inspiring young people to take to the streets across parts of Asia and Africa.

Turkish prosecutors have charged Istanbul's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu with 142 offences that could carry a penalty of hundreds of years in prison if he is convicted, court documents show. The nearly 4,000-page indictment charges the popular opposition figure, who was arrested on 19 March, with offences including running a criminal organisation, bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, extortion and tender rigging.

On 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy collapsed at the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia's second-largest city, killing 16 people. The tragedy triggered the longest wave of protests the country had seen in a decade a spontaneous uprising against corruption, negligence and the arrogance of power. One year on, the cracks in Serbia's concrete have turned into fissures in its political foundations.

Tens of thousands of people on Saturday protested in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, one year after the floods that killed 229 people. Demonstrators were demanding the resignation of regional leader Carlos Mazon over his handling of the disaster. They displayed banners with messages such as "Mazon to prison" and chanted, "They didn't die, they were murdered." With a total of 229 deaths, it was Europe's worst flood-related disaster since 1967.

On Friday night, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers put on an athletic performance beyond anything I have ever seen, and I covered sports full-time for six years, and continue to do so now and again. He did something that nobody alive ever had seen before because only Babe Ruth, while in the employ of the Boston Red Sox, ever came close to anything like it. He pitched six innings and struck out 10 Milwaukee Brewers. And he also hit three home runs

The New York City Police Department wrote on X: "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The Austin Police Department wrote on X: "The rally remained peaceful, with no arrests reported. We're grateful to our community and event organizers for coming together to make sure voices were heard safely and respectfully."

On Saturday, crowds gathered in cities across the United States to protest President Donald Trump and his administration. Organizers of the No Kings rallies claim that more than 7 million people attended in all, across 2,700 cities in the Unites States and beyond. The gatherings provided a clear picture not only of how widespread the resistance to the Trump administration has become, but also the diversity of the coalition driving it. Not to mention the signs.

Demonstrators across the U.S. are expected to take to the streets by the millions on Saturday, organizers say, to protest the policies of President Trump. The marches are part of the No Kings movement, which has accused the president of behaving more like a monarch than an elected official. This will be the second massive wave of protests organized by No Kings a network of progressive organizations fighting against Trump's agenda.

The plans were announced by Defend Our Juries on Friday, a week after 857 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act at a demonstration outside parliament opposing proscription. It said the next phase of the protests represented a major escalation that would create an unprecedented challenge for the police, with 1,100 people already registered to take part and risk arrest.