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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

Indonesia: Protests Erupt Over Election Law Changes

Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta on Thursday, August 22, to protest over controversial election law changes. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who attempted to storm the parliament building after they tore down fences and threw stones at officers.

Protest against planned election law revisions in Jakarta

Protest against planned election law revisions in Jakarta

Demonstrators gather near the parliament building in Jakarta on Aug. 22, 2024, in protest against planned controversial revisions to election law.

Protest against planned election law revisions in Jakarta

Protest against planned election law revisions in Jakarta

Demonstrators gather near the parliament building in Jakarta on Aug. 22, 2024, in protest against planned controversial revisions to election law.

Controversial citizenship law implemented in India

STORY: Controversial citizenship law implemented in India SHOOTING TIME: March 11, 2024 DATELINE: March 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:58 LOCATION: New Delhi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of India gate 2. various of government buildings 3. various of a market 4. various of the protest STORYLINE: The Indian government on Monday implemented the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or CAA, which was passed by the country's parliament more than four years ago. The Federal Home (Internal Security) Ministry issued an official notification in this regard during the day. The notification came just days ahead of the announcement of general elections soon to be made by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Though dates are yet to be announced, the polls are expected to be held in April-May. Passed in December 2019, the CAA mainly aims at providing citizenship to migrants belonging to six communities, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians, who had entered the count

No-confidence motion against Japan education minister Moriyama

No-confidence motion against Japan education minister Moriyama

Japanese education minister Masahito Moriyama (L) leaves a chamber in the Diet in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2024, after the Democratic Party of Japan submitted a no-confidence motion against him following a report that he received a recommendation letter from an affiliated group of the controversial Unification Church ahead of a general election in October 2021.

Japan education minister in parliament

Japan education minister in parliament

Japan's education minister Masahito Moriyama speaks at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 6, 2024, following a newspaper report that he received a recommendation letter from an affiliated group of the controversial Unification Church ahead of a general election in October 2021.

Japan education minister in parliament

Japan education minister in parliament

Japan's education minister Masahito Moriyama (far L) speaks at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 6, 2024, following a newspaper report that he received a recommendation letter from an affiliated group of the controversial Unification Church ahead of a general election in October 2021.

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

No. 2 lawmakers of 5 opposition parties hold meeting

No. 2 lawmakers of 5 opposition parties hold meeting

TOKYO, March 4 Kyodo - The No. 2 lawmakers of five major opposition parties hold their first meeting on March 4, 2016, in Tokyo to discuss how to promote cooperation toward the House of Councillors election in summer. The five parties have already agreed to work together to seek the scrapping of controversial security laws.

Onaga day after Okinawa gubernatorial election

Onaga day after Okinawa gubernatorial election

NAHA, Japan - Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga reads newspapers' morning editions reporting his victory in the gubernatorial election of Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa at his house in Naha, the prefectural capital, on Nov. 17, 2014. His landslide victory is being seen as a rejection by the voters of a controversial plan for relocating a key U.S. military base within the island prefecture.

Onaga day after Okinawa gubernatorial election

Onaga day after Okinawa gubernatorial election

NAHA, Japan - Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga meets the press with newspapers' morning editions at his house in the capital of Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Nov. 17, 2014, a day after his landslide victory in the gubernatorial election. His landslide victory is being seen as a rejection by the voters of a controversial plan for relocating a key U.S. military base within the island prefecture.

Base relocation opponent Onaga set to become Okinawa gov.

Base relocation opponent Onaga set to become Okinawa gov.

NAHA, Japan - Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga (C) performs an Okinawa folk dance at his election campaign office in Naha on Nov. 16, 2014, after projections show he is on course to win the Okinawa gubernatorial election. Onaga is an opponent of the controversial plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the island prefecture.

Nakaima defeated in gubernatorial race

Nakaima defeated in gubernatorial race

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, governor of Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, delivers an address to his supporters on Nov. 16, 2014, in the prefecture's capital of Naha, after being defeated in the gubernatorial election. Voters delivered a de-facto no vote to a controversial plan for the relocation of a key U.S. military base within the island prefecture.

Okinawa governor race begins

Okinawa governor race begins

NANJO, Japan - Former upper house lawmaker Shokichi Kina, 66, who is running for governor of Okinawa, makes a speech in Nanjo, a city in Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

Okinawa governor race begins

Okinawa governor race begins

NAHA, Japan - Mikio Shimoji, 53, former state minister in charge of the privatization of postal services, who is running for governor of Okinawa, makes a speech in Naha, the capital city of Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

Okinawa governor race begins

Okinawa governor race begins

NAHA, Japan - The incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima, 75, who is seeking his third four-year term in the prefecture's gubernatorial election, makes a speech in Naha, the capital city of Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

Okinawa governor race begins

Okinawa governor race begins

NAHA, Japan - Voters gather to listen to a speech by a candidate for the governor of Okinawa, on Oct. 30, 2014, in Naha, the capital city of Japan's southernmost prefecture, as official campaigning for a closely watched gubernatorial election on Nov. 16, with the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base taking center stage, began the same day.

Okinawa governor race begins

Okinawa governor race begins

NAHA, Japan - Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga, 64, who is running for governor of Okinawa, makes a speech in the capital city of Japan's southernmost prefecture on Oct. 30, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for a closely watched election on Nov. 16, in which the controversial transfer of a key U.S. military base will take center stage.

Post-election Cambodia

Post-election Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Sam Rainsy (R), leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, holds a press conference in Phnom Penh on Oct. 23, 2013, before the party staged a protest rally. Cambodia's lower house of parliament continues to function as a one-party assembly with opposition lawmakers boycotting sessions, while antigovernment protests continue in the wake of the controversial July 28 general election.

Post-election Cambodia

Post-election Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Sam Rainsy, leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, and his supporters head to the U.N. human rights office in Phnom Penh on Oct. 23, 2013. They presented a petition asking U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon for help so that a probe will be made into Cambodia's controversial July 28 general election. Cambodia's lower house of parliament continues to function as a one-party assembly with opposition lawmakers boycotting sessions, while antigovernment protests continue in the wake of the poll.

Post-election Cambodia

Post-election Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Sam Rainsy (L in middle), leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, attends the party's protest rally in Phnom Penh on Oct. 23, 2013. Cambodia's lower house of parliament continues to function as a one-party assembly with opposition lawmakers boycotting sessions, while antigovernment protests continue in the wake of the controversial July 28 general election.

Yosano to retire from politics

Yosano to retire from politics

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese veteran lawmaker Kaoru Yosano. He will not run in the next general election and will retire from politics due to health problems, sources close to him said on Sept. 5, 2012. Yosano joined the Cabinet of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan as economic and fiscal policy minister in January 2011 and played a major role in drawing up Japan's controversial sales tax hike plan.

Nishihira defeats recalled Akune mayor in election

Nishihira defeats recalled Akune mayor in election

AKUNE, Japan - Shinichi Takehara, former mayor of Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, who was ousted in December 2010 after a series of controversial administrative decisions, speaks to reporters at his election office in the city on Jan. 16, 2011, after losing in a mayoral election. Yoshimasa Nishihira, a chicken farm operator who led a civic group that campaigned to recall Takehara, was elected the new mayor.

Nishihira defeats recalled Akune mayor in election

Nishihira defeats recalled Akune mayor in election

AKUNE, Japan - Yoshimasa Nishihira (C) celebrates his victory in the mayoral election of Akune in Kagoshima Prefecture with his supporters in the city on Jan. 16, 2011. Nishihira, a chicken farm operator, defeated Shinichi Takehara, the former mayor who was ousted in December 2010 after a series of controversial administrative decisions.

Okinawa governor election campaigning

Okinawa governor election campaigning

NAHA, Japan - Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima shakes hands with eligible voters in Naha on Nov. 11, 2010 as official campaigning began for the Nov. 28 gubernatorial election. The controversial relocation of a U.S. Marine base is a major focus in what is effectively a two-man race against former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha.

Okinawa governor election campaigning

Okinawa governor election campaigning

NAHA, Japan - Former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha waves to people in Naha on Nov. 11, 2010 after filing his candidacy the same day to challenge incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima in the Nov. 28 gubernatorial election. The controversial relocation of a U.S. Marine base is a major focus in what is effectively a two-man race.

Okinawa governor election campaigning

Okinawa governor election campaigning

NAHA, Japan - Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima waves to people in Naha on Nov. 11, 2010 as official campaigning began for the Nov. 28 gubernatorial election. The controversial relocation of a U.S. Marine base is a major focus in what is effectively a two-man race against former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha.

Okinawa governor election campaigning

Okinawa governor election campaigning

NAHA, Japan - Incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima delivers a speech in Naha on Nov. 11, 2010 as official campaigning began for the Nov. 28 gubernatorial election. The controversial relocation of a U.S. Marine base is a major focus in what is effectively a two-man race against former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha.

Okinawa governor election campaigning

Okinawa governor election campaigning

NAHA, Japan - Former Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha delivers a speech in Naha on Nov. 11, 2010 after filing his candidacy the same day to challenge incumbent Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima in the Nov. 28 gubernatorial election. The controversial relocation of a U.S. Marine base is a major focus in what is effectively a two-man race.

Diet debate starts, focus on cash benefit program

Diet debate starts, focus on cash benefit program

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, urges Prime Minister Taro Aso to step down or call a general election, criticizing a 2-trillion-yen cash benefit program Aso is pushing in the economic downturn. The program is a controversial topic during the Diet session.

Tanaka speaks to the media

Tanaka speaks to the media

MAEBASHI, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka speaks to the media in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 11 after she apologized to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Gunma prefectural chapter over a controversial speech she made during the July House of Councillors election campaign.

Tanaka visits Gunma Pref. to apologize for campaign speech

Tanaka visits Gunma Pref. to apologize for campaign speech

MAEBASHI, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka arrives at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's local chapter in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 11 to offer her apology over a controversial speech she made during the July House of Councillors election campaign.

Mori applauds as controversial electoral reform bill enacted

Mori applauds as controversial electoral reform bill enacted

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) applauds as the House of Representatives enacts a controversial bill Oct. 26 to revise the electoral system of the House of Councillors in time for the upper house election next summer. Far left is Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa. The bill was railroaded by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the New Komeito and the New Conservative Party through the upper house Oct. 19 in a vote boycotted by the opposition camp. The opposition has since ended its Diet boycott.