https://sagire.online/topic/protests/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/98842812/https://sagire.online/wire/98842812/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:24:00 -0300Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer for allegedly using excessive force against detainees during last year’s anti-corruption protests in Belgrade, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. The Interior Ministry said the suspects, from an elite unit, tortured and intimidated people detained in the garage of a government compound in downtown Belgrade on August 14-15, 2025. According to the statement, by using force and threats they inflicted great pain and severe suffering on a larger number of people to obtain information from them and to intimidate and unlawfully punish them. These were the first major arrests in connection with violence against the protesters who took to the streets over the past two years, and the ministry released only the detainees’ initials. The protests swept the country, a candidate for European Union (EU) membership, in 2025 and 2026, after 16 people died when a concrete canopy collapsed at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024.SerbiaProtestsHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/a82b3a18/https://sagire.online/wire/a82b3a18/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:22:00 -0300The Central Bank of Paraguay ordered the intervention of Ueno Bank after finding a solvency ratio below 50% of the required minimum, following adjustments to its balance sheets during the regularization process. President Santiago Peña asked for the resignation of Central Bank president Carlos Carvallo and agreed with the heads of both chambers of Congress on a bill authorizing the use of the Guarantee Fund to start immediate payment to savers, including public funds and the IPS. Peña was a business partner of the bank until March 2025 and gave up his shares after criticism over a conflict of interest; the institution, linked to former business partners of the president, held hundreds of millions of dollars in public resources, including investments from Paraguay's social security system. On Wednesday, lawmakers began collecting signatures to file an impeachment request against Peña and Vice President Pedro Alliana. On Tuesday night, account holders and retirees protested outside the National Congress and the presidential residence, demanding the return of the blocked money and that authorities be held accountable.ParaguayPolitical crisisLatin AmericaProtests https://sagire.online/wire/9c85c7c4/https://sagire.online/wire/9c85c7c4/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:24:00 -0300Some 40,000 students were on strike at 57 schools across Denmark, including 12,000 to 13,000 at the protest in Copenhagen, according to organizers. Under the banner “Enough is Enough,” 11 high school and university student associations marched from Copenhagen’s City Hall Square to parliament over the proposed cuts to free up funds for defense spending. In a draft budget bill, Denmark’s center-left government plans to abolish the student grant (SU) for students who live with their parents and whose parents’ total annual income exceeds 700,000 Danish kroner (US$104,000). According to the Higher Education Ministry, around 14,000 students are expected to lose their grant, and some 8,000 would see it reduced. Student protests that started in France have spread in recent weeks to other European countries.DenmarkEducationProtestsDefenseEurope https://sagire.online/wire/9dd97323/https://sagire.online/wire/9dd97323/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300Britain’s highest court on Wednesday heard an appeal against the ban on Palestine Action, which the British government classifies as a terrorist organization, as police moved to arrest protesters outside. A lawyer for the group’s founder argued that only three of 385 acts by the organization cross the legal threshold of terrorism. Twenty-five protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court on suspicion of expressing support for a proscribed organization, according to the Metropolitan Police. The court heard that more than 3,000 people have been arrested since the ban came into force, and that the High Court found the ban unlawful in February, a ruling overturned by the Court of Appeal in June.United KingdomPalestineHuman rightsProtests https://sagire.online/wire/20d91a5a/https://sagire.online/wire/20d91a5a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:22:00 -0300Bangladesh’s garment wage board, set up by the government on Sunday, agreed to raise workers’ pay, without specifying the size of the increase. Workers are demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka (about $240), a 140 percent increase on the current 12,500 taka, citing rising food, housing, transport and healthcare costs in a country with eight percent inflation. Babul Akter, the workers’ representative on the board, said the board will conclude its work by December so that revised salaries can be paid in January, and that the factory owners’ representative agreed on this point. Protests continued on Wednesday morning in industrial hubs including Gazipur, Mirpur, Narayanganj and Savar, with reports of factories being vandalized. According to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), the unrest has forced 529 garment factories to shut down and left 987,190 workers out of work.BangladeshLaborProtestsSouth Asia https://sagire.online/wire/6070883c/https://sagire.online/wire/6070883c/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:21:00 -0300Paramilitary forces were deployed to Gazipur and Narayanganj, where garment workers demanding a 30,000-taka minimum wage are staying on the streets for a fourth day, with 58 police officers injured, according to police and to Agence France-Presse (AFP), in a text republished by The Hindu. The protests continue despite the government's announcement of a board to review the minimum wage.BangladeshLaborProtests https://sagire.online/wire/6d4b0116/https://sagire.online/wire/6d4b0116/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300Activist Amadou Sarang Diallo, 27, was arrested on Friday after posting a video on TikTok condemning Israel’s participation in the Youth Olympic Games, according to activists. The Games began on October 31 and run until November 13, with nearly 2,700 athletes. It is the first Olympic event of any kind to take place on the African continent.SenegalProtestsHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/a3df70e3/https://sagire.online/wire/a3df70e3/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:23:00 -0300Unions and housing-rights associations from seven European countries, meeting in Paris, called for coordinated demonstrations against the cost of living for November 20, 21 and 22. Organizations from France, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Greece and Belgium are taking part, and they hope to bring “millions” of people into the streets. Their demands include guaranteeing public services such as education, healthcare and public housing, defending the “right to work” without “excluding migrants,” “taxing the rich” and an “end to rearmament policies” and to the expansion of “fossil fuels.” In Spain, the death of 87-year-old pensioner Maricarmen Abascal after an eviction in September triggered a wave of protests and led Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call early legislative elections for November 29; the country’s main unions have called a general strike for November 11. In the European Union, housing prices rose more than 60% between 2010 and 2025 and rents by about 29%.European UnionSpainEuropeProtestsHousingElections https://sagire.online/wire/b8bebeda/https://sagire.online/wire/b8bebeda/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:24:00 -0300Protests against the cost of living and rent prices began with the occupation of a square in the city of Porto three weeks ago, where demonstrators set up tents, and were repeated at Rossio Square in Lisbon. This weekend, Lisbon’s administrative court authorized the occupation of Rossio to remain until November 24. Housing costs in Portugal rose 41.5 percent from 2020 to 2025, the largest increase in the whole European Union, whose average rise was 3.2 percent in the period, according to the Pordata portal.PortugalHousingProtests https://sagire.online/wire/19d768b7/https://sagire.online/wire/19d768b7/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:23:00 -0300Spanish police cleared the housing protest camp at Madrid's Puerta del Sol in the early hours of Tuesday, and municipal cleaning staff swept away remaining debris, tents and tarpaulin in the morning. The central government delegation in the Madrid region said the eviction took place overnight “without incident or episodes of violence”, with 334 people removed and two arrested. Firefighters, social services and 400 national and municipal police officers took part in the operation. In a post on Telegram, protest organisers called it “a violent police operation” that left several people injured after being hit or as a result of tear gas. The camp began on September 26, after the eviction and subsequent death of Maricarmen Abascal, 87, who had lived seven decades in the same home. Major unions called a general strike for November 11 in defence of housing and wages sufficient to afford it.SpainHousingProtests https://sagire.online/wire/72506fdd/https://sagire.online/wire/72506fdd/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:21:00 -0300Rada member Artyom Dmitruk claimed on Telegram that there were fatalities and serious injuries in clashes during protests near Kyiv, according to TASS, still without independent confirmation. Dmitruk wrote that fighters dispatched by Volodymyr Zelenskyy beat people and opened fire on them.UkraineProtestsPolitical crisis https://sagire.online/wire/750377ee/https://sagire.online/wire/750377ee/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:22:00 -0300Israel's National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, accused Police Commissioner Daniel Levy on Monday of ordering “harsh violence” against Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters to appease the opposition after last week's election. Ben Gvir also petitioned the High Court to cancel an April injunction that forbids him from interfering in the police's use of force. On Thursday, three protesters were arrested after a Haredi protest near Bnei Brak turned violent, leaving three police officers wounded and several protesters injured.IsraelProtestsPolitical crisisHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/7ee8f813/https://sagire.online/wire/7ee8f813/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:22:00 -0300French high school students resumed school blockades on Monday, and the country is bracing for more protests. President Emmanuel Macron called for classes to resume after the government announced new measures to address the education crisis, which student groups found insufficient. The head of a student union had said on Sunday that the blockades would restart on Monday.FranceProtestsEducation https://sagire.online/wire/0699f934/https://sagire.online/wire/0699f934/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:22:00 -0300Bangladesh’s garment factories reopened on Monday, November 2, 2026, after widespread closures and production disruptions a day earlier, and manufacturers remain concerned about further unrest over workers’ demands for higher wages. Workers are asking for a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka ($243), up from 12,500 taka, according to Reuters, in a text republished by WHTC.BangladeshLaborProtestsEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/ea8ee627/https://sagire.online/wire/ea8ee627/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:22:00 -0300French students blocked some high schools on Monday, November 2, as they returned from the autumn holidays, determined to reinvigorate the protest movement despite government concessions during the break. Turnout for the blockades is uncertain, and the students vow to “keep up pressure”.FranceProtestsEducation