1. Television on Saturday night showed policemen dragging sitting protesters off the Lower Ormeau Road. 2. Police broke up a number of scuffles and dragged protesters out of the hall but there were no immediate reports of arrests. 3. Police and troops fired tear gas and dragged some protesters from their homes Wednesday, the third day of riots triggered by food price increases. 4. About two dozen protesters were dragged into military trucks and taken away. 5. After four nights of widespread Protestant street blockades and rioting police reversed strategy, dragging Catholic protesters from the road to let the march through. 6. Dagan Hill was also the scene of settler protests last summer, when soldiers and police repeatedly dragged protesters off hills outside settlements around the West Bank. 7. In a growing confrontation that could further sour Israel-PLO peace talks, Israeli troops on Tuesday dragged Palestinian protesters off a disputed rocky hilltop. 8. Israeli troops dragged protesters from three illegally built homes near the West Bank town of Nablus on Tuesday, demolishing the dwellings in a rare move against Jewish settlers. 9. Judging that the situation was going out of control, the police reversed their decision and dragged protesters from Garvaghy Road to force the Orange march through. 10. Police dragged protesters by the arms or clothes -- middle-aged women and children among them. |