Activists

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Monday to mark the anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997.

Around 20 Trump supporters were sequestered in a bar near Trafalgar Square by police as confrontations broke out between marchers.

Conventional wisdom says it is liberals who use the internet best to enhance activist causes, but that may not really be the case.

Despite the crisis confronting our planet, environmental activism has become a dangerous activity. The latest threat is lawsuits.

"I guarantee they would love to see you or me punished or put in jail," the pastor said of LGBTQ activists.

The "Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act" faces widespread opposition, even from various anti-abortion groups, such as Texans for Life.

"While this is a good sign of de-escalation, given that these women have been detained since last May, it doesn't signal that their ordeal is over yet," said a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

"For Trump and his team, human rights is just another cudgel they wield opportunistically in service of a vision for the Middle East," Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, told Newsweek.

"The staggering scale of arrests, imprisonments and flogging sentences reveal the extreme lengths the authorities have gone to in order to suppress peaceful dissent," said Amnesty International's Middle East research and advocacy director.

The "Stansted 15" said they were guilty of "nothing more than intervening to prevent harm."

"I know that the regime cannot be trusted," Jude Ash, a Syrian activist who is now an asylum applicant in the U.S., told Newsweek. "Any attempt by the regime to facilitate any transition or resolution, the main problem there is trust," he explained.

At least four cows are dead after gorging on highly concentrated animal feed.

"The death of Clément Méric is a political murder. He was targeted because he was recognized as an anti-fascist activist."

Zimbabwe's security forces have harassed activists and leaders supporting the MDC Alliance.

No animals or staff were injured, but the safari park's ticket booths were destroyed.

President Donald Trump has previously touted his high IQ and declared himself a "stable genius."

"It's terror that these people are seeking to sow, in their aim of making a whole section of French culture disappear," said the leader of a butchers group.

"Some of my colleagues and I have been verbally told that we absolutely cannot accept political and security cases because we are not among the 20 listed lawyers."

Oliver North also compared the plight of NRA leaders to black activists during the civil rights era.

A well-known activist in Novosibirsk says his summer house was burnt down because of his criticism of the city's mayor.

Authorities deemed the presence of the activists "not conducive to the public good."

"We will not listen to one more hate-filled speech that targets our communities," the NAACP said Monday.

Russia's most famous civil liberties activist has appealed to the president to intervene after the arrest of five Scientologists.

The event was set to start at noon.

A woman claims that she was invited to the party as the "main prize" for a soldier.

The president may "drop in" on one of his Scottish golf courses, the paper said.

The activists' lawyer said their heavy sentences were part of an ongoing crackdown on civil society.

Poland was one of the first countries to suffer the atrocities of the Nazi war machine in World War II.

Women and girls are particularly vulnerable, especially ones who wear the hijab. But at Dulles Airport, Virginia, Muslim-American women were at the forefront of a peaceful resistance movement.

Social media activists in Zimbabwe may be able to oust Robert Mugabe.