Crowds gathered in the Central West End Friday night to continue protesting the verdict in the Jason Stockley case. At 7 p.m. protesters congregated at Maryland Plaza to organize and begin another march; in similar numbers demonstrations earlier in the day. The protests traveled south down Kingshighway, shutting down both directions of the roadway near Barnes Jewish Hospital.

Russian police detained people from a crowd of about 200 protesters Sunday in Saint Petersburg who had gathered over the crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The square in the city centre was surrounded with police vans and policemen were leading people away into the vans, an AFP correspondent at the scene said, counting over 100 detained at the unauthorised demonstration.

And in Wisconsin, six people were arrested after one person locked himself to a piece of heavy machinery to stop the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. The proposed line would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to a terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. It faces sustained resistance from indigenous nations and environmental activists in both the U.S. and Canada.

We turn out in the streets and nothing seems to happen. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.

Police using water cannon and batons have clashed with refugees who had occupied a square in Rome in defiance of an order to leave a building where they had been squatting. Television images from the dawn operation showed people screaming and trying to hit police, who were dressed in riot gear, with sticks.

One organizer said he’s “definitely” not coming back soon after tens of thousands drowned out 50 people and him in a gazebo. Hours after he had been escorted from Boston Common in a police van, one of the organizers of the “free speech” rally was still shaken up. “I honestly thought I was going to die in there,” Steven said of the “paddy wagon” in which he and 16 others were escorted from a gazebo that hosted the “Boston Free Speech Rally.”

Tens of thousands of people have marched through the streets of Hong Kong in protest at the jailing of three pro-democracy activists. Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were initially given non-custodial sentences for their involvement in mass protests in 2014. But last Thursday the court of appeal gave the activists jail terms of between six and eight months.

Behind the scenes, as law enforcement officials tried to stem protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, alumni from the George W. Bush White House were leading a crisis communications effort to discredit pipeline protesters.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has announced he will veto two contentious bills that are widely seen as assaults on the independence of the judicial system and are part of a planned legal overhaul by the ruling party that has sparked days of nationwide protests.

Claremont McKenna punished multiple campus activists who shut down an event featuring a pro-police speaker—but were those punishments justified? By Conor Friedersdorf.

Massive demonstrations in Polish streets continued this week as thousands of people gathered Thursday night in more than 70 cities around the country. Standing before courthouses, they held candles, sang anthems, and chanted demands that President Andrzej Duda veto a proposed reform to the Supreme Court.

Supporters of the white supremacist group were surrounded by many more counter protesters.

Day one saw injuries and arrests as police cracked down on protests in the city of Hamburg hosting the two-day G20 summit. As Jenny Witt reports, water cannon was used to disperse the sometimes violent demonstrators.

Creative protesting.

Hamburg, Germany. It may look like a scene from the popular AMC TV show The Walking Dead, but it’s anything but. In fact, this horde of shuffling zombies are actually part of widespread protests that threaten to spill into violence. The reason for the unrest and disobedience? Well, Hamburg is hosting the G20 summits this week. A huge meeting of heads of state, the summits usually attract protests against various leaders and their controversial policies. Often, protesters are unhappy at their own country’s indifference to perceived issues in policy.

I was interrogated for seven hours and saw random people arrested. But the orchestrated hate and xenophobia I witnessed at Channel One was truly chilling.

Moroccan security forces have begun withdrawing from the restive northern cities of Al-Hoceima and Imzouren, which have been rocked by weeks of social unrest, officials and residents said.

Thousands of people have gathered in central London to demonstrate against the UK government's economic policies. The protest has been organised by a group called the People's Assembly Against Austerity. Crowds met outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, where Labour's shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, addressed demonstrators.

Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell has been sentenced to jail for refusing to pay fines related to his arrest at a protest at a New York power plant. The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports a town judge in Wawayanda on Thursday sentenced the 77-year-old Cromwell to seven days in jail.

Prominent far-right activists from Europe who were planning to attend an anti-Muslim rally in Birmingham have been detained at airports hours before they were due to speak. Jacek Międlar, 28, an antisemitic priest, and his fellow activist Piotr Rybak were among three Polish nationals stopped on Saturday morning, according to Polish media and social media posts. They were due to speak at the rally organised by far-right group Britain First.