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A vigil in Tehran for a late Iranian musician outside the hospital where he died morphed into an anti-government protest on Thursday night. Videos posted to social media appear to show people chanting “death to the dictator” during the demonstration.

The president spoke at an airport rally in Bemidji, Minnesota, outdoors near an airport hanger with a big crowd of supporters.

The archbishop of San Francisco is urging Catholics to “Free the Mass” and publicly demonstrate against the coronavirus restrictions on worship.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) claims citizens with “automatic rifles” showed up on her lawn when President Donald Trump focused on her refusal to reopen her state after the coronavirus shutdown.

Eight people were arrested on Friday when a group of 150 rioters smashed windows and vandalized the storefronts of lower Manhattan banks and chain stores in New York City, police said.

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Iran’s security forces of using torture to extract confessions, saying hundreds of people have been jailed since a sweeping crackdown against protests last year.

A teenager who put together a Black Lives Matter protest in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, said she was billed nearly $2,500 for police overtime by the mayor, prompting anger from civil liberties advocates who pressured the town’s mayor to rescind the bill.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on Tuesday in Kentucky, including far-left, anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour.

Anti-police protesters clashed with officers outside the Denver Police Department’s (DPD) headquarters on Saturday.

A group of migrants blocked a road near the famous “hot gates” of Thermopylae in Greece on Monday morning to protest living conditions at a nearby migrant camp.

A “Freedom Day” rally in the Australian city of Melbourne on Sunday that drew anti-mask protesters onto the streets of the Victorian state capital ended with seven arrests and dozens more fines issued to participants.

Seattle Chief of Police Carmen Best advised her city’s business owners and residents that local police will not “risk their personal safety to protect property” after a ban issued by the city council of “less lethal tools” — such as pepper spray — for the purposes dispersing crowds to control rioters.

One person was killed after shots were fired Saturday night at a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas, local police said.

Thousands of people gathered on Saturday in Bangkok to demand Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha “step down and dissolve the parliament” amid accusations his government’s stringent lockdown measures and “sweeping power” have compromised citizens’ democratic freedoms, local news outlet Coconuts Bangkok reported on Monday.

A group of track and field athletes said Friday they had been oppressed and denied the “right” to public dissent for too long, demanding the International Olympic Committee (IOC) annul a rule that bars political protests at the Olympic Games.

TEL AVIV — Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv Saturday night to protest the government’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic in what was later described by the country’s deputy health minister as a “health terror attack.”

Dutch police arrested dozens of farmers Wednesday who were protesting government plans to cut emissions of nitrogen oxide.

Hundreds of protesters returned Friday to the home of the couple who confronted demonstrators with firearms on June 28 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Black Lives Matter and indigenous groups turned the Fourth of July into an occasion for protest against the country itself on Saturday, with demonstrations in several cities in California and elsewhere.

Black Lives Matter protests joined anti-Israel demonstrators in a nationwide “Day of Rage” on Wednesday that included calls for Israel’s destruction and claims that Israel murders children, an allusion to medieval antisemitic blood libels.

“If we don’t get no justice, they don’t get no peace,” tweeted one account promoting the event.

Black Lives Matter activists are back for another night of protests in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump on Friday defended the NFL’s plans to return in the fall to play football despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of people crowded the streets of New York and Los Angeles on Sunday to join protests on behalf of black transgender people, in a nationwide set of demonstrations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

“I won’t be watching much anymore!” Trump wrote.

“Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) protesters in Seattle on Thursday forced out police officers from the area as they continued to occupy several blocks of the city including the police precinct building.

“It wasn’t racism that was in our DNA,” Pollak continued, contrary to what Black Lives Matter claimed. “It was freedom that was in our DNA.”

During an interview with The Root on Tuesday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer indicated black protesters would be killed by Michigan State Police if they attempted to “storm” the capitol building.

Protestors in Seattle have taken over city blocks, baracking streets and encouraging others to occupy the city on social media.

During a national media appearance on Monday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer falsely claimed she wore a mask “the whole time” during a recent protest.

Past and present members of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration are protesting the mayor over his handling of the recent unrest in the city, demanding immediate police reform.

McEnany revisited the topic after a CNN reporter asked if the president still believed that an NFL football player should be fired if they knelt during the national anthem.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York City on Saturday in the wake of George Floyd’s death, where they marched under a sign that made it clear that facial coverings should be used during the coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of George Floyd protesters took to the streets of New York City on Saturday, where they replaced the chant “No justice, no peace” with “F**k Donald Trump.”

Protesters in New York City took a knee to recognize George Floyd on Friday as thousands took to the streets across the city.