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May
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence

WORLD
ASIF SHAHZAD and GIBRAN NAIYYAR PESHIMAM PAKISTAN'S anti-corruption agency arrested former prime minister Imran Khan at Islamabad High Court, threatening fresh turmoil in the nuclear-armed country as clashes erupted between Khan supporters and police, killing at least one protester. Khan's arrest comes a day after the powerful military rebuked him for repeatedly accusing a senior military officer of trying to engineer his assassination and the former armed forces chief of being behind his removal from power last year. Dozens of paramilitary troops in riot-control gear surrounded Khan - Pakistan's most popular leader according to opinion polls - and led him into a…
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Apr
28
2023
By The African Mirror
Police arrest 11 Ugandan MPs

Police arrest 11 Ugandan MPs

NEWS
POLICE in Uganda detained 11 female members of parliament who they accused of staging of an unlawful protest, with some of the lawmakers sustaining injuries during their arrest. The lawmakers were detained just outside the parliament buildings in the capital Kampala as they prepared to march to the Ministry of Internal Affairs where they intended to hand over a protest note to the minister. They were protesting what they said was police brutality and the use of excessive force to disperse various functions organised by female lawmakers in their local constituencies in recent weeks. "I strongly condemn the manner in…
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Apr
25
2023
By SILVIO CASTELLANOS and JUAN ANTONIO DOMINGUEZ
Three arrested as Spain exhumes fascist movement’s founder

Three arrested as Spain exhumes fascist movement’s founder

WORLD
THREE people were arrested after police clashed with sympathisers of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Spain's fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, whose body was exhumed from a mausoleum near Madrid. Police struggled to hold back a crowd of about 150 Falange supporters gathered outside the San Isidro cemetery in southern Madrid, where he was taken to be reburied. They gave the fascist salute and sang the Falangist hymn "Facing the sun". The three arrests were for public disorder, according to a police source. Earlier, a smaller crowd outside the gates of the complex formerly known…
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Apr
19
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisia police arrest three prominent officials of Ennahda party

Tunisia police arrest three prominent officials of Ennahda party

NEWS
TUNISIAN police arrested three prominent officials of the main opposition Ennahda party, hours after they detained party leader Rached Ghannouchi, the most prominent critic of President Kais Saied, a lawyer and officials said. Lawyer Monia Bouali told Reuters that the officials arrested are Mohamed Goumani, Belkacem Hassan and Mohammed Chnaiba. Officials in Ennahda confirmed the arrests. Police raided Ennahda party headquarters early on Tuesday and evacuated all present to start a search that will take days, after showing a judicial warrant, party officials said. Police have this year detained leading political figures who accuse Saied of what they call a…
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Mar
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Spain hotel worker arrested for hate crime against Morocco players

Spain hotel worker arrested for hate crime against Morocco players

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A 27-year-old worker at a Madrid hotel hosting the Morocco team was arrested for an alleged hate crime after posting derogatory comments on Islam and racist slurs against the players on social media, Spanish police and the hotel said. Local police told Reuters the employee, a waiter at the Spanish capital's five-star Eurostars Hotel Tower, asked players to take photographs with him. He then uploaded the images to Instagram with xenophobic insults and tagged the Moroccan team's account, with the post quickly receiving over 70,000 views. The man is due to appear before a judge shortly, police said. "We wish…
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Mar
21
2023
By The African Mirror
Kenyan opposition politicians arrested, tear-gassed during protests

Kenyan opposition politicians arrested, tear-gassed during protests

NEWS
HUMPHREY MALALO and AYENAT MERSIE KENYAN police tear-gassed the leader of the opposition and arrested senior lawmakers in his parliamentary faction, as protesters took to the streets to march against President William Ruto and the high cost of living. The convoy of Raila Odinga, who was defeated by Ruto last year in his fifth straight election as the runner-up, was repeatedly sprayed with tear gas as he addressed supporters from the sunroof of his car. Odinga has called for nationwide protests as he attempts to harness dissatisfaction with the president. At least four members of parliament were arrested during protests…
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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Indian police arrest three after man killed for possessing beef

Indian police arrest three after man killed for possessing beef

WORLD
POLICE in India have arrested three men in eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was suspected of carrying beef, a police official said. The victim, Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this week after being attacked by a mob on suspicion of carrying beef, the sale and consumption of which is restricted in some parts of the country by local governments. Cows are sacred in Hinduism, and there have been frequent attacks on those accused of killing them for meat or leather, predominantly people from the minority Muslim population or…
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Mar
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Tunisian opposition defies protest ban with rally

Tunisian opposition defies protest ban with rally

NEWS
HUNDREDS of opposition supporters in Tunisia defied an official ban on their protest against the president after some of their leaders were arrested, breaking through a police barrier in central Tunis to rally in the city's main street. Before the protesters broke through the barrier, police warned them by loudspeaker that their demonstration was illegal but added that they would not stop them by force. Up to a thousand protesters then pushed through the cordon to reach Habib Bourguiba Avenue where most rallies take place, chanting "Shut down the coup" and "We want the release of the arrested". The National…
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Feb
24
2023
By The African Mirror
Florida TV journalist shot dead while reporting on a murder – police

Florida TV journalist shot dead while reporting on a murder – police

WORLD
STEVE GORMAN A gunman opened fire on two television journalists reporting on a murder near Orlando, Florida, killing one and wounding the other before fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl and wounding her mother in a nearby home, authorities said. A suspect identified as Keith Melvin Moses, 19, was arrested shortly after the assaults on the TV news team and the mother and daughter, about a block away from each other, in the Orlando suburb of Pine Hills, said Orange County Sheriff John Mina. Moses was detained as a suspect in both those attacks and was formally charged in the killing…
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Feb
07
2023
By The African Mirror
Cameroonian businessman arrested after journalist’s murder

Cameroonian businessman arrested after journalist’s murder

NEWS
AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG A Cameroonian businessman was arrested in connection with the murder of a prominent journalist, Martinez Zogo, whose mutilated remains were found near the capital Yaounde last month after he was abducted, the national radio station CRTV said. The case has roiled the Central African nation, with some government and security officials cited by media as suspects. The president's office said last week that several suspects had been arrested, but gave no details. Zogo, the director of private radio station Amplitude FM, was kidnapped on January 17 by unknown assailants after trying to enter a police station to escape…
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