Peaceful demonstrations would therefore never constitute terrorist acts.

Bahey El Din wrote here about the peaceful protests that took place in Cairo and all over Egypt. Yesterday, genuine protesters were around 8 million across Egypt.

Peaceful demonstrations were also held in the capital and in a few other provinces.

Salehzadeh s husband, Mahmoud Salehi, is a prominent labor activist who has been arrested and imprisoned on a number of occasions in Iran for engaging in peaceful protest activities.

Consequently, Nour had to hide and move from place to place, all the while planning protests.

On one hand, India is a democracy with a long tradition of allowing peaceful protest, including against foreign countries when their leaders come visiting.

That same Government, which had blatantly disregarded the Geneva Conventions and other human rights instruments, had the audacity to pontificate before the Committee about respect for human rights.

That provision in no way applied to peaceful demonstrations or even unruly demonstrations, for the right to demonstrate was strongly safeguarded by the Constitution and the Supreme Court.

In the second half of 2004, there were a number of peaceful demonstrations with an important participation by diverse sectors of society.

While most demonstrations were peaceful, with only minor incidents, on 28 February 2005 in Bel Air, despite the peaceful nature of the demonstration, the national police killed one demonstrator.

Not shocked at all of these people, or at the two head injures in Nabi Saleh yesterday, or at the two arrests in a peaceful demonstration in Ma asara, which didn t even get any coverage.

Many unarmed Chinese citizens were killed by People s Liberation Army troops on June 4, 1989, not only in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square, but in cities all over China. Most were not students, who started the peaceful demonstrations against corruption and autocracy, but ordinary workers, the sort of people a Communist Party ought to be standing up for.

Rioting continues in Bahrain.

A placard from the Beirut demonstrations.

Sudanese women at the forefront of SudanRevolts.

Two days prior to the protest, legislators passed a law requiring all protest organizers to submit logistical information about planned protests to the Ministry of the Interior.

Many show protests which happened this Friday. Warning Some of the videos contain graphic material)

Icilome.com writes about the ongoing protests in Lomé, Togo

Gorbachev refused to sanction the use of force to put down demonstrations.

Today marks the 100th day since the protest movement found its foothold in Syria.

Now imagine the power that big media players could have if they started covering the weekly nonviolent demonstrations happening in villages like Bil'in, Ni'lin, Wallajeh, in Jerusalem neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan the nonviolent leaders would become more visible, valued and effective in their work.

Provisional agenda

(Vienna, 31 January 2 February 2005)

Addendum

Yet Chinese leaders speak of China s peaceful rise and peaceful development.

Because you know what to do about the protests.

Woman leads protesters with Egyptian flag in Batal Ahmed street.

The demonstrations can be followed through the 15menpleno tag on Twitter

When demonstrations started in Syria in March 2011, a group of friends from Homs, all under 25, took their cameras to photograph these unprecedented protests in their city.

Massive public demonstrations were held in Istanbul to support Turkey s Kemalist secular tradition.

Demands for freedom of assembly and the right to organize followed.

and that If anyone died in a protest, know the hand that shot him

Loved the spirit of today's demo the Syrian Embassy. It was fearless, and the atmosphere of solidarity reigned In another tweet, she notes

The protesters were cordoned off by police and security forces, and several arrests were made.

Nada, a Sudanese residing in Egypt, advised on how best to cover the demonstrations

Several guns went off in the air and I was really frightened.

Even demonstrations can be the outcome of a social media movement, as we can clearly see in the Arab Spring.

Peaceful settlement of disputes

The next years were peaceful.

Darfur peace process

Darfur peace process

Pacific settlement of disputes

Tahrir Square, the epicentre of massive protests in downtown Cairo calling for an end to the Mubarak regime, saw the largest number of protesters today since the beginning of pro democracy demonstrations 15 days ago.

The protests at the main university campus prompted more protests in other campuses, including the Education College in Omdurman and the Agriculture College in Khartoum North.

Syrian Revolution Map is a new Ushahidi instance launched in Syria to track ongoing protests in several cities based on citizen reports of protests, security patrols, dangerous locations, clashes, and anticipated gatherings.