The phrase "conducted a protest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an instance when someone organized and took part in a protest. Example: Last Saturday, the student group conducted a protest outside the university against budget cuts.
The union, which is awaiting the results of a strike ballot on Wednesday, said it would conduct a protest outside the London Stock Exchange on Friday morning, with protesters dressed as robbers and banners saying "the Great Royal Mail Robbery".
She was later arrested on charges related to carrying a can of pepper spray while preparing to conduct a protest action.
BEIJING — On Monday, a 62-year-old woman named Zhong Ruihua who traveled from southern China to Beijing during the Paralympics to conduct a protest is scheduled to go on trial for disturbing the public order, according to one of her daughters.
"We told everybody in there we were conducting a protest and it would be over in 15 minutes.
Greenpeace said the boarding of its icebreaker by Russian authorities after the protest was illegal and says its activists conducted a peaceful protest.
Some Albanian miners conducted a brief protest south of the bridge in the morning.
When opposition parties conducted a major protest on election night, the security services responded with a far-reaching crackdown, sending the riot police to break it up violently and arresting hundreds of people.
"It's clear that the movement to another flagpole was intended not to resolve the issue, but to continue the reign of the flag," said Dwight James, executive director of the state N.A.A.C.P. Conference, which conducted a silent protest march of about 800 people to the Capitol this morning.
Rather, he is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, among others, to conduct "a peaceful protest against indefinite detention without charge or trial", the motion says.
