AFP journalist and FRANCE 24 contributor Farhad Pouladi was freed Saturday, the AFP confirmed. Pouladi was detained in Tehran earlier this week as he headed to cover rallies outside the former US Embassy.
AFP journalist Farhad Pouladi was arrested in Tehran Wednesday as he phoned in a report to FRANCE 24 on the rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 storming of the US embassy in Tehran. Three other reporters were also detained.
More than a million abortion opponents marched across Madrid on Saturday in protest at government plans to allow women as young as 16 to have abortions without their parents' consent.
French Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux (pictured) heads to Poitiers on Monday following violent anti-prison demonstrations that erupted on Saturday near a street performance festival in the city centre.
Israel briefly detained Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the radical wing of the Islamic Movement in Jerusalem, charging him of inciting ongoing unrest in the city. He has been barred from entering Jerusalem for 30 days.
Turkish police have detained scores of demonstrators and used tear gas and water canons to break up street protests in Istanbul, where the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are holding their annual meetings.
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore has been given the job of 'facilitator' by the Economic Community of West African States to help ease tensions in Guinea after junta troops killed opposition demonstrators earlier in the week.
In a show of anger following proposed talks with the opposition by Guinea’s military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, demonstrators clashed with police officers outside a mosque in the capital of Conakry on Friday .
Opposition leaders have rejected the ruling junta’s call for a national unity government and foreign intervention that came after the killing of protesters on Monday. The opposition are sceptical of the junta's willingness to share power.
157 people were killed when troops opened fire on protesters demonstrating against the possibility of Captain Dadis Moussa Camara's standing in elections next year, the worst violence Guinea has seen since Camara seized power.
