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Palestinian protesters hold national flags and placards with slogans in Arabic during a demonstration outside the International Red Cross offices in east Jerusalem against the detention...

Approximately 30 people gather in front of Ofer Prison Junction in support of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian activist, on hunger strike since mid-December in Israeli jails. Palestinian Ter...

Salafist demonstrate outside the U.S embassy in Tunis, to demand the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist sentenced to 86 years in prison by a U.S. judge on Septembe...

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson with the Metropolitan Commissioner of Police, Bernard Hogan-Howe, attended a photo-call in Trafalgar Square to highlight the new Trident initiative to cra...

A protest at the Italian Embassy called for the release of the Bologna 12, accused of "subversive association for purposes of terrorism" for membership of communist organisati...

Citizens hold a sit-in in Manger Square in solidarity with the prisoner Khader Adnan, 33, who is a senior member of the Islamic jihad movement. Adnan has been on hunger strike for 54 da...

Families of Palestinian prisoners, held in Israeli jails, hold their relatives pictures during a protest in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross offices in the West Ban...

Shops and businesses remained closed in response to the shutdown call by hardline separatist alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference to protest the state government's move to move...

Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, the Egyptian Minister of Tourism met with released American kidnapped tourists to check on their health, after being abducted while returning from St. Catherin...

Palestinians continue their hunger strike in solidarity with Khader Adnan,a prisoner in an Israeli jail. They camp in front of the UN headquarters in Gaza City, demanding intervention f...

Palestinian women hold pictures and posters of their imprisoned relatives during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails outside the Red Cross offi...

Palestinians protest and carry pictures of Palestinian prisoners in front of the International Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City, demanding the release of prisoners held in Israeli ja...

In conjunction with massive protests in Moscow and St. Petersberg, around 150 London-based Russians gathered outside Downing Street to protest for voting reform and a less corrupt gover...

Russian people protest for free elections and to support Russian opposition with about 200 demonstrating in Berlin's inner city. Berlin, Germany. 4th February 2012.

The London Guantánamo Campaign marks 5 years of regular protests at the US Embassy, and over 10 years of illegal detention of UK residents Shaker Aamer and Ahmed Belbacha, with a candle...

Salafi demonstrate outside the foreign ministry in Tunis. They are demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist sentenced to 86 years in prison by a U.S. judge on...

Released peasants from a private prison of Kunri hold a protest against bonded labor and private prisons. Hyderabad, Pakistan. 3rd February 2013

Baraa Melhem poses for a photo at her mother's house in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the ...

Police have arrested a second man in connection with the deaths of two young men in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom. 1st February 2012

Groups of Iranian protesters who are against the Islamic regime of Iran, war and any kind of military intervention, participated in the picket protest, which launched in front of the US...