Juries have an unqualified right to acquit, and the higher court’s decision does not affect the outcome in the Colston case. However, it means defendants in similar cases will not in future be able to rely on the convention’s rights to freedom of thought, expression and assembly. Some people threw explosive devices at officers; one damaged an officer’s eye, and he might require surgery, police said. In all, 18 officers had to go to a hospital after Friday’s clash. The Jizo Bodhisattva, “ O-Jizo-san” in the Japanese honorific language, is a deity fondly loved by Japanese people. You will find Jizo statues in many places: in Buddhist temples, graveyards, at the side of the road in the countryside, and, less commonly, at the corner of some streets in the cities. Arriving at the court on the morning of 25 January, Richardson, a gardener, wrote “Support the Colston 4” outside its entrance in water-soluble chalk. When Martin, an artist and writer, arrived shortly after she wrote: “Let justice prevail.” Both were arrested for criminal damage and breach of Covid regulations as they complied with instructions to leave the area.

CBS Chicago journalist Marissa Parra said an officer used a baton to swat her phoneout of her hand while she was reporting on the scene. WBEZ journalist Linda Lutton said her two daughters were pepper sprayedand had their bike, roller skates and bags taken by officers. Lightfoot, speaking during a groundbreaking for a Far South Side restaurant, said the video showed “vigilantes, people who came for a fight.”Gus Silverman, a civil liberties lawyer at the law firm Irwin Mitchell, who represented Larsen and Dye, suggested the outcome of the case could lead to further actions against police. He said: “Recent demonstrations have seen force used against protesters by police, whether at the vigil for Sarah Everard or at the more recent protests in Bristol. If officers at those demonstrations believed that all protests were banned under coronavirus regulations then it is now clear that they were wrong.” Perhaps no figure from Chinese history is better known than Confucius, and his teachings inspired a religious and philosophical tradition that has gone onto influence the very fabric of everyday life in China. There’s no better place to witness and appreciate the immense significance of Confucius’s legacy than his hometown of Qufu, a small city in the eastern province of Shandong. What appears to be a piece of expressionist art—a man falling headfirst towards the pavement—is actually a memorial for a Hungarian revolutionary, Péter Mansfeld, who was martyred for the cause in 1959. Larsen described the police’s behaviour as ridiculous. “I was in a safe place, I wasn’t endangering anyone’s health, I wasn’t posing a risk to anyone, I wasn’t going to be spreading any infection that day,” he said. While welcoming that caveat, the UK human rights organisation Liberty, which intervened in the court of appeal case, and lawyers who defended the Colston four at trial, expressed disappointment with the overall ruling.

When protest leaders attempted to storm the Radio Budapest building to broadcast a list of their liberation demands, they were stopped by the Soviet Secret Police. The crowd grew unruly, the police opened fire, and all hell broke loose. Central Budapest was a war zone for the months to come, the streets lined with burning cars and police barricades. Downing Street earlier condemned the toppling of slave trader Edward Colston's statue in Bristol as a "criminal act", after the city's mayor said he felt no "sense of loss" over the monument's disposal.Katy Watts, Liberty’s lawyer, said the judgment “takes away vital protections that empower everyone to be able to stand up for what they believe in … By placing weight on the value of an object in deciding if human rights can be taken into account, we feel that the court is shifting the balance too far away from our essential human rights.” Brown, asked if he thought organizers of the protest knew a group was planning to incite violence there, said, “God, I hope not, but it sure looks like it.” From the world-famous Terracotta Army to its centuries-old city wall, the city of Xi’an is full of ancient wonders, and its renowned Da Ci’en Temple is no exception. Home to the iconic, seven-storey Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Da Ci’en Temple is a Buddhist sanctuary that boasts a history spanning over a millennium and remarkable architecture, all set within a busy urban neighborhood. Priti Patel, making a statement in the House of Commons, said more than 137,500 people attended the mostly "peaceful" protests, but a "lawless minority of protesters" turned to violence. However, Burnett, representing all three judges who heard the case, said that were the criminal damage “minor or temporary”, the proportionality of conviction would have to be considered by the court. They expected such prosecutions would not be brought because they “would be a disproportionate reaction to the conduct in question”.