Protests against the ongoing war in Gaza have spread at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan in the United States. Police arrested dozens of people on Monday night to disperse the ongoing protests at New York University. The British media BBC reported. Authorities arrested at least 47 protesters on the Yale University campus in New Haven. The university confirmed the matter in a statement.  The ongoing protests on U.S. campuses captured the world's attention last week when New York City police arrested more than 100 protesting students on the campus of Columbia University. As part of the protest, the students setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week. Authorities have expelled the arrested students from the university after the police made the arrests. Hundreds of Columbia University teachers staged a mass walkout on Monday to protest the arrests of students protesting on their campuses. In addition, the authorities announced on Monday that all classes of the university will be conducted virtually. Meanwhile, protests in support of Palestine are taking place at major US educational institutions, including the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Michigan and Emerson College. But many U.S. politicians and campus-based organizations are claiming the protests as an anti-Semitic movement.

Dutch authorities have detained Greta Thunberg and other climate protesters from the Extinction Rebellion group after they blocked a motorway in The Hague on Saturday. Dutch authorities have detained prominent climate activist Greta Thunberg, along with several Extinction Rebellion demonstrators, after they occupied a motorway in The Hague. Thunberg and members of Extinction Rebellion were seen waiting in a bus, while police arrested more people. The protest was against fossil fuel subsidies.  Dozens of police officers, including officers on horseback, were seen blocking protesters from getting onto the A12 motorway leading to the parliament in The Hague. Activists from the group have blocked the highway more than 30 times previously to protest the subsidies. A small group of people managed to sit down on another road and were detained after ignoring police orders to leave.  The demonstrators waved and chanted: "We are unstoppable, another world is possible." "It's important to demonstrate today because we are living in a state of planetary emergency," Thunberg told AFP news agency. "We must do everything to avoid that crisis and to save human lives," she added.  Asked whether she was worried about being arrested, Thunberg said: "Why should I be?"  Extinction Rebellion has said it will continue to hold protests until the Dutch government stops using public funds to subsidize the oil and gas industry.  Protest to apply pressure on Dutch government to ditch fossil fuel subsidies "Meanwhile the ecological crisis continues to rage and the country's outgoing cabinet pretends that we have all the time in the world, while the crisis is now," Extinction Rebellion said in a statement posted on X. The protest was part of a plan to apply pressure on the Dutch government ahead of a planned debate about fossil fuel subsidies in June. Thunberg inspires global youth movement to fight climate change In February, Thunberg, who is 21 years old, was cleared of a public order offense by a London court over a protest at an oil and gas conference in October. In January, she was detained with other activists during protests against the demolition of the German coal village of Luetzerath. She shot to fame in 2018 when she began staging weekly protests outside the Swedish parliament. She has repeatedly been fined in Sweden and the UK for civil disobedience in connection with protests.  

Three people were arrested in Argentina for threatening Argentine footballer Ángel Di María and his family, Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich said. One of the suspects, who was under investigation for drug trafficking when he was arrested, confessed that he and two accomplices had made the threats against Di María’s family. On Monday, Di María’s family home in Rosario, northeastern Argentina, was shot at by a car driving by and had a written message left there warning the World Cup winner against returning to his hometown team. The attack happened after Di María, currently under contract with Portuguese club Benfica until June, said he would like to finish his professional career at Rosario Central, where he started his career. Following the death threats, Di María said he followed the incident closely, telling a sports broadcaster: “I have my family and what was happening affects me.” On Instagram Stories, the soccer star posted a picture of the Rosario flag with the caption: “We ask for peace.” Rosario Central condemned the attack on March 25, saying in a statement: “We cannot let [someone] frighten footballers or attack them or their relatives.”   Source: CNN  

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has conducted drives at 1,132 restaurants in the capital in the last three days following the devastating fire on Bailey Road.  They also raided in 207 gas cylinder shops and eight chemical factories. During these operations, DMP claims that they arrested 872 people and registered 20 cases. DMP said in a press release that Police are conducting drives at hotels, restaurants, risky gas cylinder shops and chemical warehouses in Dhaka metropolitan area. 

Chinese authorities in the historically Tibetan region of Sichuan Province had arrested a Buddhist monk in Jun 2023 for having republished books from the exile Tibetan community and also for having contact with people outside the country, reported the Tibetan service of rfa.org Feb 5, citing belated information from two unnamed local Tibetan sources. It was not clear what books were republished and what the nature of the contacts were. The report said the whereabouts of the monk, named as Lobsang Thabkhey, 54, remained unknown. He was reported to have served as the librarian of Kirti Monastery in the province’s Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) county when he republished and disseminated the books in question. The witnesses have spoken on condition of anonymity for safety reasons. The Ngaba police station, on being contacted by Radio Free Asia, has claimed ignorance about the monk. This was despite the fact that he was stated to have been summoned several times by Chinese police before his eventual arrest. China maintains especially tight control on information and channels of communication in the Tibetan areas in the name of fighting separatism, making it all the more difficult even to people within the country to get timely and proper information on developing situation. Thabkhey is said to originally belong to the county’s Meruma township. Source: Tibetan Review

Kolai-Palas police in Kohistan on Tuesday apprehended three members of the jirga who had decided to take the drastic step of ending the life of a young girl after the circulation of a video on social media. Deputy Superintendent of Police Masood Khan announced the arrest of three suspects, shedding light on an ongoing effort to apprehend others who had advised the girl’s family to carry out this heinous act in response to the viral video. The arrested men, including two paternal uncles of the deceased girl, are set to face legal proceedings as they will be presented before the local magistrate for physical remand. Identified as Abdul Qayyum and Mohammad Naseer, these suspects played a pivotal role in the shocking decision made by the jirga, according to police. FIA trying to establish identity of persons who uploaded video that led to killing DSP Khan emphasised that the police force was actively conducting raids, particularly in the mountainous Barsharyal area of Kolai-Palas (Kohistan), to locate and apprehend all individuals involved in either orchestrating the murder or contributing to the jirga’s decision-making process. The father of the victim, who was previously taken into custody, has now been handed over to the police by the Kolai-Palas magistrate on a seven-day remand. DSP Khan said police also produced one of the young men, who could be seen with the slain girl in the video, before the magistrate of the area and recorded his statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. An official said the young man claimed he had no idea who uploaded the video in question, or for what purpose. A statement issued by the DIG Hazara Circle office claimed police were actively pursuing the case and a contingent of police was still present in the mountainous Sharyal village for more arrests. Amid the investigation, the Federal Investigation Agency’s Cybercrime wing has actively stepped in to verify the authenticity, origin, owner and operator of the Facebook account responsible for uploading the video. FIA Cybercrime Deputy Director Mohammad Asif said a thorough inquiry would be conducted to uncover the motive behind uploading the video. He said that the video that was made up of photos uploaded on a single account.

Chinese authorities in the Tibetan prefecture of Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan), in Gansu province, had arrested last month a Tibetan Buddhist monastic teacher for having contact with people outside his local area, said the Tibetan service of rfa.org Nov 8, citing two people with knowledge of the situation. The report said the monk, Kunchok Dakpa, was taken away from Tashiling Monastery, where he works as a teacher, in the prefecture’s Thewo (Diebu) county in the last week of October. The report said it was not clear whether it was the regular police or some other Chinese security organ which carried out his arrest. His current whereabouts remain unknown. The monk is not an activist and does not involve himself in political matters, according to the report. “Though Chinese authorities frequently summoned and interrogated him in the past, this time he has been arrested and detained,” the report quoted one of the sources as saying. Kunchok Dakpa had previously travelled to India to study at the Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, the report said, quoting an unnamed local Tibetan. He was stated to have worked in the monastery’s administrative office for about five years after completing his monastic studies. He then returned to Tibet in 2012 and taught at Tashi Monastery in his home prefecture’s Yipa (Yiwa Zhen) town. “Kunchok Dakpa has always been a law-abiding individual and has never been involved in political activities that may create chaos,” the report quoted one of the sources as saying. “He is someone local Tibetans respect and admire.” Source: Tibetan Review

Ten leaders and activists of BNP were arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from a hotel in Dhaka's Gulshan area on Tuesday.  Imran Khan, ASP of RAB Headquarters (Media Wing) said in a press conference today. He said, "At least 20 people, including three policemen, were injured in a clash involving BNP, Awami League activists, and police in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj on Tuesday, on the first day of the nationwide three-day blockade." Today is the last day of the three-day blockade called by opposition parties including BNP and Jamaat. The number of traffic on the road has slightly increased today as compared to the last two days.   

A day after the federal government gave illegal immigrants the deadline to leave Pakistan by Nov 1, police in Islamabad and Quetta detained over 700 foreign nationals for allegedly living without legal documents. In a statement, an Islamabad police spokesperson said 1,126 people were interrogated during the operation, and 503 were allegedly found to be living illegally. They were booked under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act and are currently in prison on judicial remand. Around 623 people were released after presenting the requisite legal documents, the statement added.  The entire process was carried out without any “unpleasant event,” the capital police said, adding that linking criminal elements to illegal foreign nationals was “false equivalence”. In Quetta, over 200 Afghans allegedly living illegally were arrested, Quetta Division Commi¬ssioner Hamza Shafqaat said. In a presser, he said the arrests were made from several areas of the provincial capital. Shafqaat added action against illegal buildings on Quetta’s drainage channels has begun, with 11 such structures already sealed. There are over 1,000 such illegal residential and commercial complexes which pose a natural disaster threat, he claimed. He said 20,000 auto-rickshaws were operating in the provincial capital, with only 8,000 registered. The authorities will launch an operation against unregistered rickshaws. Additionally, 18 roads in Quetta have been converted into one-way roads with barriers for improved traffic management. Source: DAWN

An Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday remanded journalist Muhammad Khalid Jamil in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for two days, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. The development comes after Jamil's arrest on Thursday night.  According to FIA, Khalid Jamil was detained on charges of spreading a "provocative narrative" against state institutions through his posts on social media. ABN News, the TV Channel with which Jamil is affiliated confirmed his arrest in a post shared on X. The first information report lodged by the agency said the accused was "found sharing and propagating highly intimidating content/tweets on social media/Twitter" (now X), Dawn reported. The FIR invoked Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca), which states: "Whoever intentionally and publicly exhibits or displays or transmits any information through any information system, which he knows to be false, and intimidates or harms the reputation or privacy of a natural person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one million rupees or with both," Dawn reported. In addition, the FIR included Section 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) of the Pakistan Penal Code. The FIR said, "The accused had knowingly misinterpreted and disseminated anti-state narrative by sharing false misleading and baseless information which are also likely to cause fear in the public and may incite anyone to commit an offence against the state or the state institution or public tranquillity." The agency further said that the "accused persons including Muhammad Khalid Jamil propagated, promoted and glorified anti-state, provocative and hatred narrative against the state institutions." The FIA did not reveal details regarding other individuals involved in the alleged crime, according to Dawn report. The agency called such intimidating content of blaming and naming through social media accounts a mischievous act of subversion to create a rift between the general public and state institutions to "harm the state of Pakistan". It further said that the accused through such intimidating content including videos "attempted to provoke the general public against the state institutions including judiciary, by trying to create a feeling of ill-will among pillars of the state." The journalist community has condemned the arrest of Khalid Jamil. They have called for an explanation for the action taken by the agency. Journalist Maria Memon expressed concern over the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) swift action in Jamil's case. Menon spoke about the agency's inconsistency in their response to other online harassment cases. Meanwhile, journalist Nusrat Javeed in a post shared on X stated, "Just got the news that @khalidjamil had been arrested by FIA.  He had been a colleague of mine at @AajTv. Always found him extraordinarily soft and polite. Wonder how could he provoke trouble 4 him. The government surely needs a flawlessly credible story to defend his arrest."