Clashes erupted between police officers and hundreds of protesters in the US city of Baltimore following days of demonstrations against police brutality in the country. Police fired smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the protesters who defied a curfew that took effect across the city late Tuesday. The city is in turmoil after an African-American ...

Americas Martin Luther King Day was embraced by the Supreme Leader on Monday. However, far from marking the occasion by heralding the work and ideas of King or the development in civil rights in the 1960s, Ayatollah Khameneis Twitter account put out a more downbeat message: Khamenei.ir@khamenei_ir Follow Many years have passed since equality ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (MNA) The secretary of Irans Judiciary Human Rights Council has praised the countrys police as being worlds cleanest police forces. Mohammad Javad Ardeshir Larijani, who was addressing a high-level coordination meeting of the Council on Tuesday, said that inglorious conduct of the US police in handling the colored people recently ...

[caption id="attachment_99179" align="alignright" width="189"] Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran has never capitulated to the West.[/caption] Irans supreme leader has stepped into the debate over police violence and race in America, likening police shootings of black people in Ferguson and elsewhere to the Palestinian struggle in Gaza in a series oftweets ...

Demonstrators gather in Washington and New York to rally against the killings of unarmed black men by police officers. Thousands of demonstrators have marched in Washington and New York to protest against the killings of unarmed black men by police officers and to urge politcians to do more to protect African-Americans. Organisers said that Saturday's ...

Protests against police brutality and institutional racism continue around the US following the recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the death of two unarmed black men over the summer. Thousands of university students from 40 medical schools across the US on Wednesday staged so-called die-ins to simulate being dead to ...

The United States is being rocked by growing protests against the recent decisions by grand juries not to charge police officers who have killed African Americans. Angry protesters took to the streets in Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Miami, New Orleans and other major cities to demand justice for the victims of police brutality ...

[caption id="attachment_133641" align="alignright" width="185"] Police arrest Derrick Robinson in St. Louis, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014.[/caption] US Bishop Derrick Robinson, the leader of several peaceful protests against Michael Browns grand jury decision, has been arrested in St. Louis, Missouri. Police arrested the bishop during clashes between police ...

[caption id="attachment_133337" align="alignright" width="137"] This undated file photo released by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's office on November 24, 2014, shows Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson during his medical examination after he fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.[/caption] The police officer who shot dead ...

[caption id="attachment_132217" align="alignright" width="196"] Protesters knock over police barricades in Union Square in New York on Monday. PETER FOLEY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY[/caption] Protests in a number of U.S. cities were primarily peaceful Monday night following the decision by a grand jury not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer ...