CAIRO — A court in Kuwait on Monday sentenced a prominent opposition politician to five years in prison for insulting the country's ruler, a crime that leaders around the Persian Gulf are prosecuting with increasing frequency in an effort to stanch emboldened protest movements, or stop protests before they start.
Emboldened by protests sweeping the Middle East, government opponents in Azerbaijan, an oil-rich, mostly Muslim country, have taken to Facebook and other social networking sites to organize a series of demonstrations in recent weeks, including one on Saturday, against the government of President Ilham Aliyev.
Injustice will thrive in silence as long as workers are unaware about their labor rights and immigration status continues to be used as a tool to intimidate and retaliate against workers who are emboldened to protest the abuses.
The increasingly connected janitors grew more emboldened, holding several protests outside Target stores in Minneapolis.
Emboldened by student protests in his state and striving "to emerge as the champion of the Tamil cause", Mr. Karunanidhi hopes his moves will have a political payoff, Mr. Sudhir writes.
Webster believes another factor at play here may be that the Freddie Gray protests emboldened criminals.
The square has remained an armed camp in anticipation of even rowdier protests to come.Related items Al-Jazeera: Coming of ageMar 27th 2003 In the fog of warMar 27th 2003Two factors have emboldened Arab protesters.
The popular success of the June protests had emboldened the players to speak out politically, with mixed results.
Scores more regional groups have sprung up and are organising their own events, amid signs that the scale of the London protest has emboldened the wider student movement.
WASHINGTON -- Charges against 21 activists who staged a sit-in at Department of the Interior headquarters last month were dropped by the U.S. Attorney's office earlier this week, a move that will embolden more confrontational protests in the future, proponents of climate protection say.
