Cairo – Saudi Arabia has announced it will re-open its embassy in Egypt, after closing it in late April due to massive protests. The conflict began when Ahmed al-Gizawi, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, was arrested in April by Saudi security forces upon arriving in the country to take part in the umrah, an Islamic [...]
DUBAI: Videos posted online showed Bahrain activists in full protest mode, burning tires in yet another display of defiance in the small Gulf Kingdom embroiled in upheaval now for 15 months. The protesters were demanding the release of female activists who had been detained during the past year of protests against the country’s ruling monarchy. [...]
CAIRO: Hundreds of Egypt activists gathered in front of the High Court in downtown Cairo on Friday to protest for the release of all political prisoners detained in Egypt since the 18-day uprising last January 2011, and to demand the release of political activists Ahmed Doma and George Ramzy, members of the April 6 Youth [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition strongholds and clashed with rebel fighters around the country on Saturday, killing at least two people, activists said. The heavy fighting focused on the villages of Sermin and Khan Sheikhoun, in the northern province of Idlib, forcing local rebels to retreat from both areas, activists said. [...]
SANA’A: Until up to a year ago, most Yemen women were largely invisible on the political scene, preferring to remain in the shadows, away from a world decidedly dominated by men. As a traditional Muslim society, women politicians are often, or at least were, frowned upon as many felt women’s very nature did not match [...]
Amman (dpa) – After taking part in hundreds of protests and chanting thousands of slogans, a few choice words transported pro-democracy activist Saed Ouran from the streets of southern Jordan to an Amman prison cell. “They say I insulted the king,” Ouran told the dpa from the capital’s Jweideh Correctional Facility. Ouran is the latest [...]
CAIRO: At least 80 people have been killed in heavy clashes on Monday between the opposition Free Syrian Army rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on the outskirts of Damascus, activists said. “Some 50 members of the government forces were killed, among them an officer,” Haytham al-Abdullah, an activist in Damascus told German [...]
DUBAI: After two days of clashes in Bahrain and at least one reported death by security forces’ hands, the government maintains that there is a Western bias towards the Kingdom when reporting events on the ground. The king’s advisor for diplomatic affairs and Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies Chairman Mohamed Abdul Ghaffar [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces surrounded areas in the north-western province of Idlib Tuesday, and warned that it will storm neighborhoods to free them from rebels, activists in the area told dpa. “Dozens of tanks and troops are besieging areas near the town of Saraqeb and residents in the targeted areas started to flee, especially [...]
Cairo (dpa) – Syrian government troops Sunday pounded the dissident town of Rastan in the central province of Homs, opposition activists reported. The troops used planes and fired artillery shells in their attack on the positions of rebel fighters in the town, added the activists. The report could not be independently verified. Homs has been [...]
SANA’A: HOOD, Yemen’s most prominent human rights organization called on President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi to order the release of hundreds of political prisoners arrested by the Republican Guards and the Central Security Forces over the course of the popular uprising, for participating in the demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. According [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – Two political leaders from a communist party in India’s eastern state of West Bengal were killed Wednesday, allegedly by activists from the ruling party, a news report said. The politicians, who belonged to the state’s opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), were beaten and stabbed by a crowd in the Burdwan [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Government troops clamped down Wednesday on volatile areas inside the Syrian capital Damascus, rounding up scores of people, opposition activists said. “Security forces entered the area of Kfar Soussa in Damascus at dawn and deployed in the streets. They stormed into houses causing panic among their residents,” Ghayath Abdullah, a Syrian activist [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian political activists and parliament members announced on Thursday the birth of the “revolutionary council,” aimed at achieving and realizing the January 25, 2011 goals and aspirations. The group held a press conference Thursday at the Lawyers’ Syndicate with the presence of many of the council members. Mohamed Abou Hamed, Ziyad [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian government forces shelled the dissident province of Homs on Friday, hours after an overwhelming United Nations General Assembly vote condemned Damascus for continuing violence against civilians, opposition activists reported. “This is the heaviest shelling we have seen over the past 13 days,” said Omar Homsi, a Syrian activist. “Buildings are collapsing [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain security forces continue to use force against protesters, firing tear gas and arrested dozens of activists in the country. The United Nations has called on Manama to respect its human rights obligations and end the continuous crackdown against protests and activists. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for the country to respect [...]
Beirut (dpa) – An explosion hit a gas pipeline in Syria’s restive central province of Homs on Wednesday, the second such blast in less than a week, opposition activists said. The area of Baba Amr, a district of the province’s capital, also called Homs, was “shrouded in black smoke,” activist Hadi al-Abdullah said. “People find [...]
Beirut (dpa) – At least 90 people were killed in violence across Syria on Friday, including 28 people who were killed in twin suicide bombings which ripped through two security facilities in the hitherto relatively peaceful city of Aleppo. The bombings, in which another 235 people were wounded according to the Health Ministry, were the [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Association of Women’s Rights Organizations announced their support and participation in the general strike planned for February 11 across the country to protest the military junta. The association brings together a number of non-governmental organizations working for gender equality in Egypt. The call for the strike was launched by a group of [...]
CAIRO: Syrian activists are reporting Friday morning a massive explosion felt in the northern Syria city of Aleppo. Opposition activists based in Lebanon said they feared there could be a number of casualties as a result. Although details of the explosion are still coming out, activists told German press agency dpa that they believe the [...]
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