Days before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which anti-government protesters are planning to disrupt, the authorities are taking precautions in an attempt to stop them from succeeding. No more burning of bins in the dark of the night - the standard plastic containers are being replaced with metal ones. Read more....

Russia's westernmost city staged the biggest anti-Moscow protests in a decade on Sunday. But while similar demonstrations across the rest of the country saw the swift deployment of riot police, in the distant Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad Oblast, the authorities were left helpless in the face of an estimated 10,000 protestors. Read more...

The Iranian ambassador in Paris came face-to-face with anti-government protesters on Sunday, leading to a scuffle and his subsequent restraint by French police. In Iran, the incident went unreported. But the entire affair was caught on camera. Read more and see the footage...

After Venezuela's leading opposition TV channel was forced off the air by the government last Sunday, protests have escalated across the country. Two people have died in the confrontations and many more have been injured. Read more...

Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian protestor that became a symbol of Iran's protest movement after she was killed in police clashes during anti-government demonstrations in June last year, would have turned 27 on Saturday.

A protestor photographed on Dec. 27 in Tehran. Source: Teheranlive.

Sheema, a protestor who took part in Sunday's demonstration, tells us about how a group of officers were caught by protestors, and about the abuse of women at the hands of Basij militiamen. Read more...

Clashes in Iran on Sunday were the bloodiest since the post-election protests in June, resulting in the reported deaths of eight. Amongst them, the nephew of Mirhossein Mousavi, a leading figure of the opposition. Rumours of memorial services for the deceased today are expected to prompt further protests. Follow our live updates.

Iran's most prominent dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, died of a cardiac arrest yesterday aged 87. A major critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, supporters of the outspoken cleric have come out in mass for his funeral. Follow the day's events...

One protestor was killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday when clashes broke out during a demonstration in the east of Cairo. Local residents had gathered simply to protest a forced demolition operation ordered by the local council. Read more and see the video...

If talks seem to have reached a stalemate two days before the Copenhagen climate summit comes to an end, environment activists outside the conference have not given up yet. Thousands of protestors surrounded the venue today, resulting in violent clashes with the police and the arrest of 260 people. Our Observer was there. Read more and see his photos...