For weeks, locals had been blockading the highway through the town, demanding that Mr Robles quit over alleged embezzlement.
As a schoolteacher she was used to a certain amount of respect, but the Islamist militants who took control of her town demanded that she cover her hair.
After two Misratan journalists were detained in the formerly pro-Gaddafi town of Bani Walid, Misratan armoured columns were deployed on Monday near the town demanding their release.
They rolled into town demanding austerity, meaning severe cuts to government spending, and structural reform, meaning changes to the way a country's economy works.
A "court" convened by sympathizers in Eil, a Somali town, demanded a fine of $750,000 from the owner of the boat, the Bahari Kenya, as well as $150,000 from the captain.
Last March, 100 followers of the far right-wing National Front party staged a demonstration in the town demanding that the Burgundy school be closed, calling it a hotbed of extremism that was producing Europe's "future political-religious agitators".
If, however, you spent more of your time on Twitter, you were more likely to have received harrowing updates from Ferguson, Missouri, where police officers (and now the National Guard) are trying to enforce order on a town demanding justice for Michael Brown, the 18-year-old man gunned down by a police officer on Aug 9".
"Exigent Circumstances" –- While the manhunt for Barbie continues, Big Jim gets the residents of Chester's Mill riled up and the town demands justice for all of Barbie's supposed crimes.
For those who say that they can't let such an act go uncensored, I'd remind them of the story in John 8 when the men of the town demanded that the woman "caught in the act of adultery" be stoned.
He said small-town demand for some doctors, especially radiologists and anesthesiologists, far exceeded the supply.
