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Information Minister Hasan Mahmud is hospitalized at Square Hospital in Dhaka after testing positive for COVID-19.
2020-10-17

People rallying against last weekend's gang rape of a female student are showered in tear gas and water cannons in New Delhi, India.
2012-12-22

Chinese police beat protesters and fire tear gas after demonstrators storm government buildings in Haimen (70km NNW from Shanghai), in protest against a local 'polluting' coal-powered electricity generation plant.
2011-12-20

Barriers, batons and tear gas are in use as hundreds of riot police engage with demonstrators around the Greek parliament building over the government cuts.
2011-06-29

Police use tear gas and batons on people protesting against their government in Maldives.
2011-05-1

Bahrain police launch an attack on protesters in the Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama, using tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd.
2011-02-17

Police beat with batons and shoot tear gas at student protesters in the Sudanese state of Sennar in demonstrations inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
2011-02-4

Police in Bangladesh fire tear gas at 20,000 demonstrators protesting against government plans to build an airport south of the capital Dhaka. A policeman is killed in the incident.
2011-01-31

Police use batons, pepper spray, tear gas and water cannon to disrupt activists expressing concern about the safety of a temporary warehouse in Gorleben where nuclear waste is being transported via train from France to Germany. It is thought to be the largest such mobilisation ever.
2010-11-7

At least 50 people are injured in Dhaka as police use batons and tear gas to beat back civilians protesting against frequent power outage.
2010-08-12