Greta Thunberg was among climate activists detained during protests against the expansion of a coal mine in Luetzerath on Tuesday.
January 18, 2023State Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Monday ordered filing a FIR against the Congress leader.
December 13, 2022Congress parliamentarians began their protest march from Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhavan over the rising figures of inflation and unemployment and were subsequently stopped by the police.
August 5, 2022Even though there was heavy security deployment outside party headquarters AICC in the national capital, the party workers staged massive protests who were subsequently detained by the police.
July 27, 2022At one point, military forces stormed the offices of Sudan’s state-run television in Omdurman and detained a number of workers, the information ministry said.
October 25, 2021Chaotic visuals from the scene went viral on social media showing Priyanka Gandhi surrounded by a number of people, including policemen, as she tried to make her way past the blockade.
October 20, 2021SAD held demonstrations near Parliament to mark their protest against the completion of a year of the enactment of the farm laws.
September 17, 2021The vote is sure to draw China's ire after Beijing already threatened retaliation against Washington for Trump signing legislation last week supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters.
December 4, 2019Prominent businessmen in Saudi Arabia, detained in November in an anti-corruption purge, have been released after reaching financial settlements with the Kingdom authorities, a media report said. Among those set free on Friday were Waleed al-Ibrahim, the head of regional television network MBC and Khalid al-Tuwaijiri, a former chief of the Royal Court, the BBC reported on Saturday....
January 27, 2018The Haryana Police detained Suraj Pal Amu and sent him to preventive custody on Thursday, 25 January, as protests against ‘Padmaavat’ continued to rage across many states. Amu was taken into custody to prevent him from issuing instigating statements in the light of the violence. According to Indian Express, he has been put under house...
January 25, 2018Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he was detained by police today as he left his home in Moscow, hours before he was to hold a banned rally. “They have detained me in my building’s entrance hall. They are taking me somewhere ‘to give explanations,'” Navalny said on Twitter. Navalny has declared his intention to...
September 29, 2017The Cyberabad Police today detained three foreign nationals for overstaying in the country and are questioning them, a senior official said. “They were picked up on charges of overstaying… and are being questioned,” Cyberabad Police Commissioner Sandeep Shandilya told PTI. The police, however, declined to reveal their identity or nationality. Shandilya dismissed reports in a...
September 9, 2017A group of Dalit protesters demanding reservation were detained by the police when they tried to enter Rohtak to meet BJP national president Amit Shah, who is on a visit to Haryana. The protesters were detained on Wednesday when they reached Kilazfargarh village on the Rohtak border as they did not have requisite permission, the police...
August 3, 2017The wife of an American citizen detained in North Korea for suspected "hostile acts" against Pyongyang, has pleaded for his release, the media reported. The news of his arrest came on May 7 after North Korea's state news agency announced that security services had detained Kim Hak-song "on suspicion of hostile acts against the state"....
May 9, 2017Congress leader Shashi Tharoor along with other party leaders were on Friday detained by the Kerala Police for protesting against demonetisation outside the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) office. The leaders were released later. "We were sitting on a peaceful dharna outside RBI office but we were arrested by police and were later released," Tharoor...
January 6, 2017A group of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs were detained here on Thursday as they took out a protest march against the arrest of TMC leader and parliamentarian, Sudip Bandyopadhyay. Shouting slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the around 50 TMC MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, including Saugata Roy and Derek O'Brien managed to...
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