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...videotape and jailed video blogger Josh Wolf was set free after serving nearly 8 months in federal prison, longer than any other journalist in the U.S., for failing to testify before a grand jury and for refusing to hand over unpublished video he shot during an anti-G8 Summit protest in San Francisco in July 2005, where one police officer was struck in the head with a pipe. Wolf posted some of the demontration's video on his blog, and some clips were aired on local newscasts, but the prosecutors demanded to see everything that wasn't made public - alleging...
...role of Iranian public opinion encouraged Britain to de-escalate. "They realized that if they kept it up, Britain would replace the United States as public enemy number one," says Mohebbian. But others say most Iranians paid little attention to the matter, and that a hard-line student protest outside the British Embassy in Tehran scarcely reflects majority sentiment. "These kinds of protests represent the smallest minority," says Laylaz; "most ordinary Iranians care about the price of tomatoes, not issues like this...
...that as the world prepares for the end of the Putin period (presidential elections are due to be held in March 2008, and under the Russian constitution, Putin cannot stand for a third term), all is not well in Russia. The Other Russia has been holding a series of protest marches, most recently in Nizhny, Novgorod, where the rally was broken up by police...
...According to media reports, Ducat has a history of quixotic protests. In 1998, he climbed a tower to protest against a politician whom he accused of being insufficiently Filipino. And in 1998, he reportedly held two priests hostage with a hand grenade (which later turned out to be a fake) because of a labor dispute. No charges were filed in either incident...
...President Pervez Musharraf, who has faced near permanent protests since he suspended a Supreme Court judge three weeks ago for as yet undefined suspicions of misconduct, has organized a public address and rally today in Rawalpindi, not far from the capital Islamabad, to prove to his people, and the world, that he still has the support of a large section of the country's population. Today's rally was expected to attract many more participants than yesterday's protest in Islamabad that was organized by a consortium of opposition parties and attended by several thousand. However turnout at yesterday...