2020 Paleocacherian Anti-Government Protests |
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Date | Sept. 21st -Oct. 2nd, 2020 |
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Caused by | Incarceration of Ernest Pyle, Malgan ethnic cleansing |
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Goals | Secure the release of Ernest Pyle, Oppose the Terranilian Government |
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Methods | Peaceful Demonstrations, Civil Disobedience |
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Status | Mostly Petered Out |
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Pro-Pyle Protestors |
Paleocacherian Government |
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Mrs. Helena Pyle, Lillian Schmidt Mayor of Liberty City |
President James Fulkerson |
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650,000 maximum |
6,000 police officers and civil guards |
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204 arrested, 3 injured |
12 injuries |
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Following Mr. Pyle's guilty plea to Terranilian charges in a Paleocacherian court and his seemingly excessive prison sentence, his personal friend the new mayor of Liberty City and his wife demanded that he receive a fair trial and insinuated publically that the Paleocacherian government had used Pyle as a sacrificial lamb to get them out of hot water from foreign governments. Protests took place in Liberty City, Killarney, Donegal, Gardena, and Chicajun over the next twelve days. At the peak of the protests there were some six hundred and fifty thousand people demonstrating nationwide. On the 29th of September in a special session of the National Assembly's Chamber of Generals the dominant National People's Party passed the Paleocacherian Citizens Abroad Legal Protection Act. This act grants the Paleocacherian government universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by Paleocacherian citizens overseas and tightens the restrictions for granting extradition requests to other countries. The bill is currently standing before the Chamber of the Senate's Committees for International Relations and Judicial Issue. A final version is expected to be voted on in the November session of the Senate. Additionally the Paleocacherian Civil Rights Alliance filed an appeal of Mr. Pyle's sentence based on the grounds that his guilty plea was coerced. The Federal Court of Appeals for the Northeast agreed to hear the case and it was calendared for October 14th. With these concessions granted the protests slowed and although they sparsely continue they are small in size and number.