Opposition street protests and shouts that the assassination was stage followed.

Soon after the vote, protests of irregularities were lodged by opposition parties.

No unified, patriotic Syrian opposition has existed since extremists hijacked the peaceful protests in 2011.

It allows only repression when the government faces protests and opposition outside the established channels.

But as the celebration was taking place, opposition protests were broken up elsewhere in the capital.

Nowadays, opposition leaders from Moscow and elsewhere travel to other cities and join the protests or become election observers.

Indeed, the striking feature of the Iranian opposition movement is the lack of effective leadership, despite the astonishing persistence of protests.

In Turkey, recent protests have highlighted growing opposition to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s overweening power and divisive, religious based social policies.

Similarly, opposition leaders in Zimbabwe have been prosecuted for treason sodomy charges were leveled against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was imprisoned for allegedly organizing mass protests.

Mass street protests have started not led by opposition political parties but by workers and middle class families facing job losses and declining wages.

After the failure of the leaders to turn up on February 24, opposition leader Bourhan Mohammed Ali stated he feared the protests had lost momentum.

The leaders of the three party opposition bloc Azadlyg (Freedom) have declared that they will regard any electoral outcome that gives opposition parties less than 70 of the vote as having been falsified, and that street protests would follow.

The news resulted in immediate and massive street protests from the opposition. During clashes between the police and protesters, at least five demonstrators were reported dead.

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Presidential Elections in Mauritania come following a tug of war between the regime and the opposition. This year's elections come after the prevalence of popular protests and demands on the Mauritanian scene, and following parliamentary elections boycotted by the majority of Mauritanian opposition.

Then in 2011, massive protests against Putin and his party of crooks and thieves erupted, and Alexei Navalny, who coined that epithet, became the face of Russia s opposition.

The pro government crowd usually point the finger at the opposition for blocking roads and disrupting their life, particularly during protests and the burning of tires on roads.

In Israel, opponents of disengagement still voice their opposition to Israel's prospective withdrawal and resort to protests, demonstrations and, in some cases, acts of sabotage and civil disobedience.

World Cup protests in Brazil become Gaza protests. July 12, 2014.

The authoritarian nature of the political regime is at the core of this fragility. It allows only repression when the government faces protests and opposition outside the established channels.

Escalating popular protests by both incumbent and opposition supporters in Madagascar brought the country to a standstill until the army itself splintered and sacked the president s office and central bank, forcing the president to step aside in favor of the opposition leader, Andry Rajoelina.

Protests were growing.

The Amhara protests

The Oromia protests

Opposition

In Astrakhan, where the opposition candidate lost because of widespread voting fraud, the scale of street protests grew ten fold, and the entire country has been stirred by the scandal.

China s Flood Of Protests

Old man strongly protests.

Morton protests, Your Honor.

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully.

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully.

Opposition, 19.5.

But the decrees incited strong opposition from many of the revolutionary forces that helped to overthrow Mubarak (as well as from forces loyal to him), with protests erupting anew in Cairo s Tahrir Square.

When the Group arrived in Kinshasa, however, the political situation in the country was relatively tense, notably because of the protests of an opposition party against the extension of the period of transition.

The protests reflected irreversible changes.

However, protests inevitably reached Afghanistan.

Let the protests begin... BrazilOut

How did the protests start?

And so the protests multiply.

In the video that follows, you can see him leading a protest in front of the American Embassy in Bahrain that protest was not attacked by the authorities like the opposition protests usually are.

Forging Syria s Opposition

Malaysia s Opposition Reborn

International opposition helps.

Protests in China are nothing new.

Dam protests can often be volatile.