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Dhaka, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Clashes between Muslim protesters and policemen erupted after Friday noon prayers as people were protesting against an alleged desecration of the Holy Koran in Comilla. Local police authorities said at least four people died and many injured in Chandpur district, and Hindu temples were vandalized during Durga Puja celebrations following the alleged desecration of the Koran at a Durga Puja pandal in Comilla. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM). SHOT LIST: BANGLADESHI ISLAMIST ACTIVES CLASHED WITH POLICE AFTER FRIDAY PRAYER AT THE BAITUL MUKARRAM MOSQUE AND PALTAN AREA IN DHAKA, BANGLADESH.
Rawalpindi/Karachi/Peshawar, Apr 13 (EFE/EPA).- Violent protests over the arrest of an Islamist leader who called for the expulsion of the French ambassador continued for the second consecutive day in Pakistan on Tuesday, with roads cut off and sporadic clashes with the police throughout the country."In all the major cities of the country protest is ongoing. We will continue to protest until Saad Rizvi is released," Ali Raza, the spokesperson of the Islamist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which is organizing the protests, told EFE.The spokesperson said that since the protests began on Monday following the arrest of Rizvi, at least six of their members have died and 200 have been injured in clashes with the police. (Camera: SHAHZAIB AKBAR / SOHAIL SHAHZAD / ARSHAD ARBAB).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GARTHER TO PROTEST OVER THE ARREST OF ISLAMIST LEADER IN THE CITIES OF RAWALPINDI, KARACHI, PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN.
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga calls off demonstrations planned for Monday and said his party would sit down for dialogue with the government after two weeks of protests. "We stand down our demonstrations for Monday, that is tomorrow, April 3, 2023. But in doing so, we want to emphasise that the right to assemble, to demonstrate, petition, and speak are iron-clad as provided for in our constitution," the veteran opposition leader tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the self-exiled Belarusian opposition figure leading a campaign against strongman Alexander Lukashenko, reacts in an interview with AFP to news of her husband being sentenced to 18 years in jail after galvanising an unprecedented protest movement. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of jailed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvilli and his United National Movement Party rally in Tblisi, Georgia's capital, to demand his release after the ruling party imprisoned him on the eve of highly controversial local elections. Chanting Saakashvili's name and waving national flags, demonstrators fill the capital's Freedom Square as well as the main thoroughfare, Rustaveli Avenue, with an AFP correspondent estimating the crowd at more than 50,000 people. IMAGES
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