Massive protests rocked the tiny island kingdom, which neighbours Saudi Arabia, starting on February 14, 2011.

Moreover, it generated mass social protests, which the government evidently had not envisaged.

Then in 2011, massive protests against Putin and his party of crooks and thieves erupted, and Alexei Navalny, who coined that epithet, became the face of Russia s opposition.

In Tunisia, a mass protest called for all women to be veiled, which led to unveiled female religion professors being hounded off campuses.

The secular state, supported by feminist groups and some transnational non governmental organizations, banned female genital mutilation in 1999, without triggering massive Muslim protests.

In democracies, repeated elections lead to short term policy choices. In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as resentment against corruption and rent seeking boils over into protest.

Similarly, opposition leaders in Zimbabwe have been prosecuted for treason sodomy charges were leveled against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was imprisoned for allegedly organizing mass protests.

Leung has also distinguished himself by inciting a large swathe of school teachers and students to stage massive street protests against his hasty effort to insert a national education program into the school curriculum in order to reconnect Hong Kong s young people with the motherland.

The Oromia protests

World Cup protests in Brazil become Gaza protests. July 12, 2014.

The avenue is the main street of Tunis and was the location of a mass demonstration on the eve of the Tunisian Revolution.

There were widespread protests in India.

They constitute an overwhelming majority in this House. They represent not just the voice that too but the aspirations of teeming billions.

CAIRO Whether or not Egypt s first ever democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was pushed aside by a military coup may be debatable, but it is undeniable that the June 30 protest that triggered his ouster was the largest mass movement in Egypt s history.

In Cristina s victory, and that of her husband, there were no mass celebrations.

The pain for the missing normalistas is unmeasurable.

For the first time, Arab authoritarian regimes have been toppled, and others are threatened, by mass demonstrations calling for freedom and democracy.

The caption reads '15 March 2011.

Protests by the Russian Federation against Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan

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On 23rd of March, Karachi (Sindh) hosted a massive rally for the independence of Sindh from the Pakistani state.

Protests in several areas in Bahrain to condemn the execution of martyr Nimr Al Nimr. Bahrain's villages rise in anger after the execution of Nimr Al Nimr

Here are the photos of demonstration in Masjed Soleiman on Friday, February 15.

Protest in Ethiopia from Abdi Lemessa's Facebook page.

PARIS Madrid and Warsaw recently looked very similar both were the sites of massive demonstrations.

Massive crowds have gathered to support the judges and have caught Mubarak s regime completely unaware.

Mass demonstration in the province of Dali in the south of Yemen, calling for disengagement from the north on February 19, 2010.

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It was the latest of a series of protests that have taken place in Mauritania.

Since 2008, the tax has been popular at Tea Party protests.

The decision of the Commission prompted protests from some members of the Misseriya tribe.

Ambassadors have been recalled. Massive anti Japanese demonstrations have been held all over China, causing damage to Japanese people and properties.

His death, last June, caused widespread demonstrations and rage against police torture and the use of Emergency Law to terrorise citizens.

Gone also are the violent street protests and mass movements against globalization.

Protests took place on main railways lines and also on highways.

The army intervened to control the situation and stop the workers protests.

The secularists gains were a wake up call for the Islamists, and they responded en masse on July 29.

On his blog, Hossam El Hamalawy posts videos of some of the workers' protests around Cairo.

Her story shocked cycling rights activists, sparked spontaneous protests across the city and opened a national debate.

Remember us with a few barrels as our circumstances are dire Kuwaitis were also quick to point out that the protests in Kuwait were just that protests and not a revolution.

It will not be a palace affair, replete with a patriotic, television driven mobilization of the masses against terrorists and the Western nemesis.

A video shared on YouTube, shows students at Amir Kabri University immediately celebrating his release at a rally with songs and banners

Instead, he rose like the flag of the trivial in a global mass culture a sign associated with consumer tastes in fashion, music, and drugs.

The number of street protesters has since swelled from five digits to six.

Last year, Biti was detained and beaten along with Tsvangirai and dozens of other MDC officials. The photos of Tsvangirai s pummeled body led to an international outcry.