More than 20 people were arrested Saturday on suspicion of terrorism offenses after protesters gathered in central London in ...

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On January 4, 1932, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested after the Congress Party had decided to resume a civil disobedience movement in the wake of emergency measures imposed by the British government.

Civil disobedience is a form of political activism in which individuals or groups refuse to comply with certain laws, demands, or commands of a government or authority, often in a nonviolent manner.

Another civil disobedience movement started to develop in the backdrop of the boycott of the Simon Commission. It gained momentum in the 1930s, ultimately ending in the signing of the Gandhi-Irwin ...

When he returned to India after 21 years, he started the civil disobedience movement or Satyagraha. He used Ahimsa (non-violence) to fight for India's freedom from British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience in 1893 On June 7, Gandhi, who was practising law in South Africa faced racial discrimination and was thrown out of a train.

Ancient origins The first example of civil disobedience in the Western philosophical tradition dates to the 399 B.C. trial and execution of Socrates, an ancient Greek moral philosopher.