Civil disobedience

Sausage, the ginger mongrel who became famous for appearing at anti-austerity protests and barking at riot police at the height of Greece's debt crisis, has died of a heart attack

Romanian MP Aurelian Mihai, who has been on a hunger strike for eight days in a protest aimed at curbing consular taxes, was taken from the Parliament by ambulance on Wednesday to Bucharest Emergency University Hospital on his request, immediately after he had given a news conference to explain his protest.

Hong Kong students Monday began a week-long boycott of classes, gathering in their thousands for what democracy activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against China's refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy.

Sixteen Greenpeace activists have been detained after staging a protest at a coal thermal power plant in the Black Sea Province of Zonguldak on Sept. 11.

Fifty-five Greenpeace activists from some 20 countries go on trial in France on Sept. 4 for an audacious break-in at the country's oldest nuclear power plant to highlight weaknesses at atomic installations.        

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs, to disperse some 350 protesters late Aug. 13, the fourth night of racially-charged demonstrations after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise departed for the Netherlands on August 1 nearly a year after Russian authorities seized it during a protest against an oil platform, the Amsterdam-based environmental group said.

The Arctic Sunrise left the northern Russian port city of Murmansk and was headed to Amsterdam, Greenpeace International said.

A local court has ruled in favor of the 24 children, detained last year for attending Gezi Park protests in the Aegean province of İzmir, claiming that they had the “right” to protest according to Turkey’s demonstrations law and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Greek prison guards on Friday vowed to extend action being carried out in protest at understaffing across the country’s correctional facilities until July 1.

According to figures provided by unionists, who launched rolling work stoppages on Thursday, facilities in Greece have an average ratio of about one prison guard for every 500 inmates.

Over 3000 inmates at prisons in Greece continue their hunger strike over the poor living conditions.

The hunger strike started on Monday.

Some of the prisoners refuse to drink water, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio.