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The hype generated by Invisible Children’s 30-minute video proved the power of social media, accumulating over 105 million views. But where are those supporters now, asks Dylan Barber?

A Finnish magazine has obtained a surveillance system Nokia allegedly supplied to Iran last year, allowing the government to locate, monitor and ultimately arrest dissidents. Dark, damning and depressing.

Constantly proclaiming “We’re all doomed!” isn’t doing the planet any favours, says Anne Applebaum. Global warming is an important issue, but mopey nihilism will get the climate movement nowhere.

Reporting live from climate protests in Copenhagen, Matthew Knott shares photos and eyewitness accounts as thousands of peaceful protesters are detained by Danish police and housed in steel cages.

Anna Rose is in the thick of the 100,000-strong protests in Copenhagen, where, contrary to media reports of civilian violence, thousands of peaceful protesters have been arrested by police.

With gay marriage, the Birther movement, Tea Parties and health care, it was a year ripe with hilarious (both intentional and not) protest signs for those crazy Americans.

Former Gardening Australia presenter Peter Cundall was was arrested at an anti-pulp mill protest yesterday after he and 50 other activists refused to vacate the front steps of Tasmania’s Parliament House.

Organisers of a march in Washington against the Obama administration claimed to have attracted 1.5 million attendees, but it looks like they were off by a good 1.43 million. Of course, it’s all the Left’s fault.

Protests in China over the country’s badly polluted cities and water are turning violent, with 10,000 rioting in Fujian yesterday over a broken-down waste treatment plant. Things are bound to heat up across the nation.

Rapid industrial development in China has led to a raft of pollution and environment-related health and social problems. But the country’s citizens aren’t taking it lying down, with environmental demonstrations on the rise in recent years. Could the government be facing a green revolution?

Professor & Director at the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Dr Marika Vicziany clarifies the conflict in Xinjiang.

Anyone found responsible for one of the 156 deaths that occurred during the Xinjiang riots will be executed, a Chinese government official has announced.

The world is glued to the protests in Iran, but an even more important political uprising has been passing unnoticed — but its outcome will profoundly impact our lives, writes Johann Hari.

Hold your horses, social media experts: some Iranian protesters have used Twitter to get people on the streets, but according to Business Week, most of the organising is happening the old-fashioned way.

Has the backlash in Iran gone too far for even the hardline clerics to crush?

And so it comes around again, the tiresome ritual of rocks and bottles, batons and boots. Ben Gook reports from the Berlin barricades.