Police brutality in the 2020s

2020 police murder of a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

The 2025–2026 Iranian protests are a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation, and widespread shortages linked to international sanctions and government mismanagement. This event has been the largest uprising in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, spreading to more than 200 cities across the country. The ensuing crackdown, reportedly carried out under orders by Ali Khamenei and senior officials to use live fire on protesters, resulted in massacres that left thousands of protesters dead, making them the largest massacres in modern Iranian history.

Palestinian-American journalist (1971–2022)

death of Iranian Kurdish woman who was arrested and potentially abused by the Guidance Patrol of Iran

protests in Indonesia since August 2025

a series of ongoing student-led anti-government demonstrations in Indonesia

incident on January 10, 2023, in Memphis, TN, USA

storming of the the Kenyan Parliament Building by protesters in response to the passing of the Kenya Finance Bill 2024

Death of a protester during 2022 protests in Iran

Incident in Ukraine

2023 mass killing by the Peruvian National Police

2022 homicide in Brazil

murder in Brazil, 2020

2020 religiously motivated riots in Bangalore, India

Murder of 32-year-old autistic Palestinian man by Israeli police officer