Sentence examples for protest being held from inspiring English sources

Throughout the day, the students had been following on their phones the course of a massive protest being held outside the capitol building.

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — As he prepared to go on trial on corruption charges, the former president of Mongolia lay in a wrinkled hospital bed, where he was recovering from a 10-day hunger strike he waged to protest being held in detention by his successor's government.

The simple answer is that the military moved against a protest being held by supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the President who won the country's first free election and has, since the coup that removed him earlier this month, been held incommunicado.

Donald G. McNeil Jr. (NYT) KOSOVO: SERB TRIALS TO START -- The United Nations administration said war-crimes trials would start next month for Serbs who have gone on a hunger strike to protest being held for up to 10 months without trial.

Fellow TC reporter Eric Eldon was on the scene in San Francisco — you can find his report here — and I scoped out the protest being held in midtown New York City.

I originally went to attend a protest being held outside of the establishment where he was scheduled to speak, but somehow made my way inside.

A similar protest was held Sunday.

A huge protest was held on March 20 , 2011from Khalid Ben al-Waleed mosque.

The "Shell No" protest was held close to where Shell's Polar Pioneer drilling rig is docked.

After a week a protest was held in al-Ulabi square for three days.

The protest was held just before the opening of campaigning for national elections on March 14.