New York City experienced Muslim Day in 2008. Then there was the pro-Hamas demonstration in Florida.

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This kind of highly confidential document – pictured above – is rarely seen by the public. These so-called "spotter cards" are issued by police to identify individuals they consider to be potential troublemakers because they have appeared at a number of demonstrations.

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Every Friday for the past four and a half years, several hundred demonstrators — Palestinian villagers, foreign volunteers and Israeli activists — have walked in unison to the Israeli barrier separating this tiny village from the burgeoning settlement of Modiin Illit, part of …

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Iran 'releases 140 demonstrators' Protests turned violent after the 12 June presidential election About 140 Iranian detained during protests against last month's disputed election result have been released from Evin prison, officials say. About 150 others, accused of more  …

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excerpt: ""Street demonstrations erupted in Iran once again on July 21 as thousands of people gathered in small pockets around central Tehran on the anniversary of an uprising in 1952 in which government security forces refused to fire on the crowds.

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The "unruly mob" concept is usually taken as read and used as the basis for crowd control measures and evacuation procedures across the world. Yet it is almost entirely a myth.

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Environmentalists who scaled Mount Rushmore and unfurled an anti-global warming banner along President Abraham Lincoln's face Wednesday were charged with trespassing.

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Li Zhi, the party boss in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital where the violence was centered, said that many suspected instigators of the riots had been arrested and that most were students.

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At least 1,000 rioters clashed with the police on Sunday in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese, according to witnesses and photographs of the riot.

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A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him in an editorial Saturday of committing crimes against the nation.

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Video: "Iranian youth chased and beaten up by Police thugs in Iran:"

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This is one of the best of all the commentaries on the current Iran situation.

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"The following email in Farsi we received today (Wednesday 24th june).

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Interview from "Morning Joe" in which Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski provides an interesting perspective. He says the leadership in Iran has to be concerned about recent events.

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A source familiar with the thinking of decision-makers in state agencies that have strong ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said there is a sense among hardliners that a shoe is about to drop.

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New violence again erupts in Tehran amidst allegations of a crackdown on foreign nationals. The British Foreign Office said it was looking into the claims. "We have seen reports of the arrest of British nationals in Iran.''

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Women in sunglasses and headscarves, speaking through megaphones, brandishing cameras, carrying signs: When they first appeared, the photographs of the 2005 Tehran University women's rights protests were a powerful reminder of the true potential of Iranian women.

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"In the days that followed the 12 June election BBC Persian - broadcast in Farsi but already banned from working in Iran - was jammed, forcing the channel to use two new satellites to try to get round the blockage." Young Iranians, in London for the launch, worked around the clo …

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Iran's regime has issued a ban on memorials for a young woman whose death has become the focal point of protests against the clerical regime.

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Neda Agha-Soltan (Persian: ندا آقا سلطان - Nedā Āġā-Sulṭān; b 1982 - d June 20, 2009)[2][3] was an Iranian woman whose killing, during the 2009 Iranian election protests, was captured on video by bystanders.[4] The graphic videos were posted on the Internet, and …

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The 40-second video from Tehran is gripping and brutal. It shows a young woman apparently dying in the street, blood suddenly pouring from her mouth and nose as those around her struggle frantically to save her.

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A NOTE TO OUR READERS: We are saddened to report that the Iranian photojournalist, whose pictures appear in this gallery, is missing. He has not been in contact with us; this morning we received the following email from one of his relatives.

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Iranian Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has criticised the "harsh" treatment of post-election protesters by the Iranian government.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, had used his Friday sermon to declare high noon in Tehran, warning of "bloodshed and chaos" if protests over a disputed election persisted.

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