Riot News

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma's Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'. So what happened to the mantra of non-violence? Peter is a foreign correspondent and feature writer with The Independent who has done long stretches in Japan, India and Italy.

Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.

Thousands of anti-government protesters have rallied in Bahrain to demonstrate against a raid last week on a top cleric's home.

Cars burning in Husby as rioting spread to several cities in Sweden last week. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images The pace of the neighbourhood watch suddenly picks up.

A car set on fire burns, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista late May 21, 2013, in this picture provided by Scanpix.

Former Beatle and megastar Sir Paul McCartney has once again gone on record as one of just many of the celebrities wanting the ladies from punk rock band Pussy Riot freed from a Russian prison camp.

Manacled to a police officer, this is the moment a suspected soccer yob was arrested over the derby day disorder.

Residents of Stockholm braced for more violence Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that have rocked the Swedish capital and shaken the Scandinavian country's self-image as a tolerant, liberal place.

Police were called to Green and Devonshire Streets about 9.50pm after numerous reports of juveniles damaging houses, vehicles, fences and letter boxes.

It is supposed to be the model multicultural state. But Sweden is facing problems of its own after gangs of immigrants spent a fifth consecutive night rioting in Stockholm.

A 15-year-old Buddhist boy told a local court on Wednesday that he was tortured by police after being arrested in central Burma on suspicion of participating in a recent wave of anti-Muslim riots.

The Ugandan authorities must end an attack on freedom of expression that has left several media outlets shut by security forces for a fifth day, Amnesty International said today after several activists were arrested for protesting against the crackdown.

European law enforcement officials arrested five suspects in Kosovo on 23 May for alleged war crimes during the 1998-1999 conflict, including a longtime ally of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, Reuters reports .

It may be more difficult for him to travel to attend other similar events following reports that Russian authorities, angered by his campaign, are now pursuing him through Interpol, the international police co-operation organisation.

Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest.

OFFICERS had bricks thrown at them as yobs from Garthamlock and Easterhouse turned the Stewart Inn at Stepps into a battleground.

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EDL leader Stephen Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, with EDL supporters outside The Queens Arms pub in Woolwich The drunken racist British yahoos known as the English Defence League took to the streets and rioted yesterday following the attack on a soldier in London: Woolwich: Riot Police Contain EDL Supporters .

Police said their priority was providing access to fire services, who came under barrages of missiles from youths throwing stones Three police officers were injured as hundreds of youths rampaged in the suburbs of Stockholm for a fourth night in succession, burning down a restaurant and torching more than 40 cars.

Nine Rohingyas, who were arrested late last month for refusing to register as "Bengalis" at a displacement camp in western Burma, will be prosecuted for instigating riots, according to a state official.