Police were out in force to try to block the demonstrations, and there were sporadic confrontations near Kinshasa University.
Ironically, these demonstrations rely on the very thing that they seek to end.
Big Tent is Scotland's largest eco-festival: a weekend of wood-crafting demonstrations, organic food, traditional music and charities.
Compared with other protests in recent years, the republican demonstrations on day one of the Queen's historic visit to the Irish Republic were lacklustre.
What Rogers had described to me – protests, sit-ins, demonstrations, occupations, hummus – I can comprehend all that.
Budapest went into uproar, with demonstrations in the streets.
The couple are now accused of organising and participating in the demonstrations under an article of the country's criminal code relating to "mass disturbances".
Similar protests on the mainland would be unthinkable – even organisers of seemingly benign demonstrations are subject to extreme intimidation, even prosecution.
Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Barnett can turn the most seemingly mundane topics – house-hunting, insomnia or swimming in a public pool – into scuzzy, indie-pop demonstrations of lyrical prowess.
Of the Chinese government's decision to put down the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989, he said: "There was a crisis after a month in which the civil authorities had been defied.
The 18-year-old said his Scholarism group was planning demonstrations on Saturday in areas where government officials would be canvassing for support, the Associated Press reported.
