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More than 340 people were arrested following Turkey’s biggest street protests in over a decade sparked by the detention of Istanbul’s powerful opposition mayor,...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday the Turkish authorities would not be cowed by “street terror” after days of unrest over the arrest of...
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“We’re living in a dictatorship,” said Kuzey, an Istanbul shopkeeper after police detained the city’s popular opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on corruption allegations. The...
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Two Iranian men convicted of membership of the People’s Mujahedin opposition group, outlawed by the Islamic republic, are at imminent risk of execution after...
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The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP she regretted...
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Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has told AFP the forthcoming presidential election there will be a “sham” and urged dissidents to prepare for...
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Venezuela’s Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who the opposition says won a July presidential election over incumbent Nicolas Maduro, said Tuesday his son-in-law was detained by...
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Several thousand Angolan opposition supporters in the capital Luanda protested against the government on Saturday in the first large demonstration since 2022’s disputed vote....
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The arrest of a Ugandan opposition figure in Kenya was carried out with Nairobi’s knowledge, a Ugandan government spokesperson told AFP Friday. His comments...
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Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been arrested multiple times, pepper-sprayed, faced spurious charges of rape and treason, and once fled the country...