"A year ago, when the protests started, Durov showed he wasn't ready to close protest pages," the source said.
2) New York school closing protests.
In 1983, nearly 30 years before thousands of websites blacked out in protest of SOPA/PIPA, video stores across the country closed in protest against legislation that would bar their market model.
The church may close in protest over the dispute, he added.
BOLLYWOOD STRIKE -- Nearly 1,000 movie theaters in western India have closed to protest ticket taxes.
In May, it forced Tehran's new airport to close, in protest against the government's decision to ask a consortium of foreigners (Turks) to run it.
The much-shorter Pakistani routes, from seaports like Karachi on better roads, were closed to protest the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in an American airstrike.
Rioting also broke out in East Jerusalem and in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Mr. Hamdiya's hometown, where many stores closed in protest on Tuesday and a public hall was opened to receive mourners.
Schools in Pakistan's Swat Valley have closed in protest as anger erupted across the country over the Taliban's attack on a 14-year-old activist famed for promoting girls' education.
Tehran's central Grand Bazaar, a vast, labyrinthine complex of arched tunnels and courtyards, has been closed in protest for more than a week, and the strike has spread to other major cities.
Some children had sewn their lips closed to protest conditions inside the barren camp, others had swallowed shampoo or had slashed parts of their bodies and one child cut the word freedom into his forearm, the panel's report said.
