Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City. Police were trying to enforce an unpopular curfew on Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park, and hundreds of protesters had gathered on Aug. 6, 1988. Without warning, a wave of cops tore into the crowd and began clubbing and kicking demonstrators and bystanders alike. A video artist taped scenes that became key evidence in a trial of five officers. Though none were convicted, the top cop at the park that evening retired, and the police commissioner publicly criticized the actions of New York's finest as leading to unnecessary confrontations...
Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested without charge. The entire Palestinian population is placed under curfew forbidden from leaving their homes for days. Amnesty International documents wide-spread torture of Palestinians. Israeli courts do not allow Palestinians or their lawyers to hear the evidence against them. Palestinians are not permitted to dig wells or construct buildings on their own property. Israel does not allow Palestinians to start new businesses...
...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
Hemeid's boss was more easily intimidated. Three weeks ago, Hemeid was fired, another victim of the latest surge of fear and violence between Arabs and Jews. "My employer was scared of me," said Hemeid last week, sitting at home under military curfew. "How am I going to find another job and feed my family...
When that failed to stem the panic, the frustrated police decided to enforce a curfew along the road that passes in front of the presidential offices, thus protecting Nigeria's most prominent men from any magician, including one tempted to use the commotion to launch a coup...