TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
A photographer arrested and a nurse sentenced in Bahrain. While the Bahraini government says that all is "normal" in Bahrain, there is video of security forces throwing tear gas canisters into homes on a quiet street. Some guerilla journalism from Yemen. In Syria, a child is killed by police in Homs. Read what happened with the parents. On the lighter side, a Syrian "revolution awareness" video.
You are in the 187th Witness Revolution diary, bearing witness to pro-democracy movements in North Africa, the Middle East and beyond. We aim here to simply report, from as many reliable worldwide resources as possible, on the successes, challenges or failures as brave people strive against oppression for representative democracy with civil and human rights. One small bit of assurance that they do not strive in obscurity.
BAHRAIN
where is the threat requiring this tear gas thrown into residences?:
Award and prize winning photographer arrested
Mr.Mohammed Salman Al-Sheikh – Head of the Bahrain Society of Photography- arrested early morning from his apartment in Sanabis village.
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Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) is deeply concerned aboutMr.Mohammed Salman Al-Sheikh and calls on international organizations to act urgently to protect him.
Bahrain: First nurse is sentenced since 14 Feb unrest
Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) is deeply concerned about Mr. Hassan Salman Al-Matooq, 29 years old.
Today ( 12 May , 2011 ) , National Safety Court ( Military court ) Sentenced him to 3 years imprisonment.
More information about his case: http://byshr.org/...
YEMEN
Guerilla Journalism: A Yemini Revolution
SYRIA
from the Facebook page: The Syrian Revolution 2011
Tammam Hamza Sayadi, age 5, Google translate of caption: Killed by security forces in Homs while riding in a car with his mother and father. Father was asked to sign statement at the hospital stating his son was killed by protesters and he refused. He was not allowed to take his son’s body from the morgue.
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GENERAL ANALYSIS
(h/t Dibsa 5/12)Obama to address policy on Mideast
WASHINGTON - Amid searing change in the Middle East and North Africa, President Obama will address U.S. policy toward the region in a speech that could be delivered as early as next week
ALGERIA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) -
Algerian forces block protest by doctors, students
Algerian security forces Wednesday blocked a demonstration in Algiers by some 1,500 striking doctors and students of health care in the latest clampdown on protests in the north African country.
The protesters, dressed in the white jackets of health workers, had gathered Wednesday morning at the Mustapha Bacha hospital, the largest in the Algerian capital.
BAHRAIN
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - “When he was recovering from the operation they tortured him again,” Torture and Unfair Trial of Protesters in Bahrain
Manama, Bahrain— Human Rights First is gravely concerned at today’s unfair trial in Bahrain of 21 suspects involved in recent protests calling for greater respect for human rights and democracy in the island kingdom
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Female doctors tortured in Bahrain amid fears of intensified crackdown until June 1
Bahrain's government has announced that it will lift the state of emergency on June 1, but this may signal a worsening of human rights abuses in the short term, according to SAVE's contact in Bahrain, as medical professionals continue to go missing.
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Bahrain: tomorrow's trial of 21 activists must be fair
A military trial due to be held tomorrow for a group of 21 prominent Bahraini opposition activists must meet international fair trial standards, Amnesty International said today amid continuing reports of torture.
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Security forces target Bahrain medics
An Al Jazeera investigation has found evidence that Bahrain's security forces are torturing medical workers to force criminal confessions
(h/t Dibsa 5/11) - Jeremy Laurance: Doctors must speak up about this human rights scandal
The Independent received some dramatic stories from Bahrain last week of beatings and harassment endured by doctors and nurses at the hands of the security services. The latest accounts of ill treatment appear in today's paper
(h/t Dibsa 5/11) - IHRC: Emergency Briefing on the Human Rights Situation in Bahrain
A new IHRC briefing on Bahrain high lighting suppression of human rights by the Bahrain ruling family.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is deeply distressed about the ongoing crisis in Bahrain, and concerned that coverage of the situation by the mainstream media is insufficient
(h/t Dibsa 5/11) - Bahrain oil company fires hundreds over protests
Bahrain's oil company has fired almost 300 employees in recent weeks for taking part in anti-government protests and general strikes, according to the Gulf kingdom's energy minister
(h/t Dibsa 5/11) - Schoolgirls 'beaten' in Bahrain raids
Secret filming conducted by Al Jazeera has revealed shocking evidence of the brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in the Gulf state of Bahrain.
(h/t Dibsa 5/11) - Bahrain's ruling Sunnis reportedly abuse detained Shiite women and girls
MANAMA, Bahrain — Empowered by a six-week-old state of emergency, the Sunni minority government of Bahrain has arrested scores of Shiite women teachers and schoolgirls, held them for days in prison and subjected them to physical and verbal abuse, according to victims, human rights advocates and a former member of parliament.
(h/t Dibsa 5/10) - Bahrainis take torture evidence to UN
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will decide this week as to whether it plans to accept a case of war crimes against Bahrain’s government. A group of Bahrainis living in Britain, with a team of international lawyers, travelled to The Hague last week to present their report to the prosecutor
(h/t Dibsa 5/10) - Bahrain expels Reuters correspondent
Reuters) - Bahrain said on Tuesday that it was expelling the Reuters correspondent in the Gulf kingdom.
COTE D'IVOIRE
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Ivory Coast: Violence Subsides, But Overwhelming Medical Needs Remain
While the post-election violence that wracked Ivory Coast began to subside almost a month ago, emergency medical needs remain at critical levels. In Abidjan, health centers and hospitals are overwhelmed with patients—including newly wounded ones—and medical and drug supplies in the city are still dangerously low. In the west of the country, the situation remains extremely tense as many villages remain empty and people continue to hide in the bush. While some Ivoirians are beginning to return to their homes to try and resume their lives, more than 100,000 remain in Liberia and thousands more are in overcrowded camps in western Ivory Coast.
DJIBOUTI
(h/t UnaSpenser 4/14 ) -
JIBOUTI: WHY NO ONE CARES
section of article which covers pro-democracy movements throughout Africa
Whilst the world was watching Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt and Libya, Djibouti had an election on 8 April. With no opposition, a state-controlled media and no civil society movement, it was easy enough for President Omar Guelleh to change the constitution allowing him to run for a third term - thereby continuing 35 year rule by the same family. But this little dictatorship is strategically central to the US Africa Command (2,000 US troops are based here) and the NATO countries. Unlike in Libya, Djibouti's 1 million population can expect no support from the West in their small attempts to have a voice.
EGYPT
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Egypt military warns of sectarianism as unity rally planned
Egypt's military warned on Thursday it will strike down sectarianism, as Muslims and Christians prepared to hold a unity rally denouncing attacks on Cairo churches.
The military, in power since president Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in February, struggled to contain the violent clashes on Saturday that left 15 people dead, according to the official human rights council.
The mob attacks, which left a church in flames, drove the country's precarious religious tensions to the brink and led to several days of protests by Coptic Christians.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Egypt Brotherhood member says to seek presidency
A senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said he would run for president as an independent, a move that could draw votes from backers of the Islamist group that has said it will not field a candidate.
Secular groups and the West are concerned by how much power the Brotherhood may gain after the first elections since the toppling of president Hosni Mubarak. Decades of authoritarian rule has curbed the development of potential rivals.
Egypt's biggest Islamist movement had sought to assuage fears by saying it would not seek the presidency in polls due by early next year; nor would it pursue a majority in September parliamentary polls, contesting only 50 percent of seats.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Coptic protesters resist call to end sit-in, convert turns herself in
Dozens of Copts on Wednesday continued their sit-in at the Egyptian state television building for the fourth day despite a cleric's call to end the demonstration.
Coptic Bishop Moussa asked protesters to end their sit-in and accused the counter-revolution of inciting the strife.
The demonstrators are protesting for speedy trials of Imbaba violence suspects, among other demands. A number of Muslims are also taking part in the protest.
IRAN
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may soon be ousted from office by the ayatollahs who control Iran. More importantly, there may be a split within the principal Iranian military/terrorist force that is destabilizing the regime.
This is not another popular uprising like the one that led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But it may be related to the so-called "Arab spring" in an oddly Iranian way.
IRAQ
(h/t Dibsa 5/5) - Slide Show: Iraqi Kurdistan's Democratic Challenge
The protests sweeping the Middle East have motivated thousands of Kurds from all walks of life to demonstrate in cities across Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in northern Iraq. While their demands—an end to widespread corruption and greater civil and political rights—have been more modest than their regime-change-seeking counterparts in neighboring countries, the democratically elected Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reacted to these protests in much the same way as despots around the regi
ISRAEL
(h/t Dibsa 4/21 ) - Israeli leftists call for Palestinian state
TEL AVIV (AFP) – Some 300 Israeli left-wingers, including prominent cultural leaders, gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday to call for the Jewish state to embrace the creation of a Palestinian state.
The activists met to sign a petition, which is endorsed by 17 winners of the prestigious Israel Prize, in a symbolic ceremony in front of the building where the state of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948.
The ceremony was met with anger by several dozen right-wing protesters who also gathered at the site and had to be kept away by a heavy police presence, an AFP photographer at the scene said
JORDAN
(h/t Dibsa 4/27) - Jordan king creates panel to review constitution
AMMAN (AFP) – Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday asked a former prime minister to head a committee to review the constitution and consider amendments, in a bid to face growing demands for reforms.
The king asked Ahmad Lawzi and the 10-member committee, which includes other former premiers, to "look into constitutional amendments that would be suitable for Jordan in the present and future," said the state-run Petra news agency.
KUWAIT
(h/t JustJennifer 5/10) - Kuwaiti legislators walk out in protest at old faces in new cabinet
At least 15 Kuwaiti lawmakers withdrew from Tuesday's parliamentary session as the cabinet was sworn in, to protest the re-appointment of former ministers.
The swearing-in comes two days after Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al- Ahmad al-Sabah appointed the new cabinet, in which he retained all the former key ministers.
LEBANON
(h/t UnaSpenser 04/19 ) - Turkish envoy to Lebanon: Democracy will spread
Turkey's ambassador to Lebanon, Inan Ozyildiz, believes that despite the recent political uncertainty, all political actors in Lebanon are "engaging in dialogue," and expects democracy to take root in every country in the Arab world.
"Although every country in the region has its own characteristics and political history, the people of the Middle East have a common demand: Democracy," said Ozyildiz.
According to Ozyildiz, the Arab world's transition to democracy is late in coming. "These uprisings were kind of late, they should have started immediately after the end of the Cold War," said Ozyildiz.
LIBYA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Libyan regime accused of exploiting boat people
The Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is allowing thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants on to overcrowded, unseaworthy ships in an apparently calculated attempt to use migration as a weapon to pressure Nato and the EU countries backing Libya's rebels.
Libyan officials admit they are not preventing boats full with African migrants embarking on perilous journeys to Europe. This is in protest at air strikes, which they say have destroyed the country's coastguard.
Turning a blind eye to people smuggling has had disastrous effects, apparently leading to the deaths of hundreds of boat people during unsuccessful attempts to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa, Malta, and other parts of Europe.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Libya: state TV airs footage of Col Gaddafi
The Libyan leader staged a sudden late-night appearance on Libyan state television, his first in almost twelve days. He had not previously appeared in public since April 30, the day of the Nato air strikes which killed his youngest son, Saif al-Arab Gaddafi. He did not attend Saif's funeral last week.
The speech, which Libyan officials said had been recorded at 8pm on Wednesday night, was aired at around 11.30pm in the capital, Tripoli. It showed Gaddafi, wearing a dark robe and a pair of dark glasses, addressing tribal leaders. He spoke slowly and hesitantly and remained seated throughout the speech.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Libya Rebels Advance Toward Brega After Taking Control of Misrata Airport
Libyan rebels are making gains in the three-month conflict against Muammar Qaddafi’s troops, advancing on the strategic oil town of Brega along the central coast after fighters took control of the airport in Misrata.
The rebels, who control most of eastern Libya, also say they are pushing westward from Misrata, which lies about 180 kilometers (116 miles) east of Tripoli, the capital. Jet fighters from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization hit Tripoli at least four times overnight, the Associated Press said.
“The rebels may be getting the upper hand because of external support, but it is too early to call,” Theodore Karasik, director of research at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said in response to e- mailed questions. ‘We have to wait to see if another brick wall emerges. Qaddafi may have more tricks up his sleeve.”
RESOURCES:
A vision of a democratic Libya an 8-point plan from the National Transitional Council
The full text of UN Resolution 1970 on Libya.
The full text of UN Resolution 1973 on Libya.
President Obama's letter to Congress regarding commencement of operations in Libya. (h/t greenbird)
Al Jazeera Libyan live blog. (h/t jnhobbs)
UK Telegraph Libyan live blog. (h/t bee tzu)
BBC Libyan live blog found here. (h/t greenbird)
The New Yorker Dispatches from Libya. (h/t suejazz)
BBC's Libyan crisis mapped. (h/t phil S 33)
revolutionology is a blog from an American in Benghazi
MAURITANIA
(h/t dibsa 4/26) - Mauritanian police use teargas to break up protest
NOUAKCHOTT, April 25 (Reuters) - Security forces using teargas and batons dispersed several hundred anti-government protesters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, the most serious clash in the West African state for nearly two months.
MOROCCO
(h/t mimi 4/30 ) -
CIA Part of Investigation of 'Düsseldorf Cell'
The arrest of three suspected al-Qaida members in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday followed a months-long investigation that, in addition to the German authorities, also included the participation of the CIA and Moroccan secret service. The German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) created its own special "Comet" investigative unit to look into the case.
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The detainees are suspected of being members of the international terrorist organization al-Qaida. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, the main suspect in the so-called "Düsseldorf Cell" is Abdeladim K. of Morocco. He is believed to have been in regular contact with an allegedly high-ranking al-Qaida official in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.
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Meanwhile, the report in Die Welt claimed that the three Moroccan men, who have German passports, are part of a larger group of terror suspects
PALESTINE
(h/t Dibsa 4/27 ) - Palestinian officials: Unity agreement reached
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians have reached initial agreement on reuniting their rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza, officials from both sides said Wednesday, a step that would remove a main obstacle in the way of peace efforts with Israel.
Even before the agreement was to be signed, however, key questions about how to unify rival security forces remained unsolved. Israel immediately rejected the prospect of a Palestinian government including Hamas, and the U.S. expressed similar concerns
(h/t UnaSpenser ) -
Hamas-Fatah reconciliation a Palestinian form of Arab spring
Reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas is a historic achievement for the Palestinians, whose rivalries and divisions have weakened them and been exploited by their enemies.
Agreement to form an interim government and fix a date for elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip next year is also a real triumph for Egyptian mediation – and a surprise given the momentous changes in Cairo in the past few months.
But above all it is a challenge to Israel, the US and EU, which have all shunned Hamas as a terrorist organisation since its shock victory in Palestinian elections in 2006.
The agreement is, in its way, a version of the Arab spring shaking regimes from Libya to Syria and giving hope of change after years of impasse.
OMAN/QATAR
(h/t Dibsa 5/10) -
Oman arrests six as protesters demand more jobs
Omani police arrested six people involved in a demonstration on Monday demanding jobs and higher wages in the eastern town of Jaalan Bani Bu Ali, witnesses said, in another sign of the unrest sweeping the Arab world.
SAUDI ARABIA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - A Few Brave Women Dare Take Wheel in Defiance of Saudi Law Against Driving
Manal, a 32-year-old woman, is planning something she’s never done openly in her native Saudi Arabia: Get in her car and take to the streets, defying a ban on female drivers in the kingdom.
Manal and 10 other people are organizing a campaign on Facebook and Twitter urging Saudi women with international driver’s licenses to join them starting June 17, risking their jobs and their freedom. The coordinated plan isn’t a protest, she said.
“I’m doing it because I’m frustrated, angry and mad,” Manal, who asked to be identified only by her first name, said in an interview from the eastern city of Dhahran. “It’s 2011 and we’re still discussing this insignificant right for women.”
SYRIA
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Syria crushing dissent town by town, rights groups say
DAMASCUS (AFP) – Syrian security forces kept crushing dissent town-by-town and rounding up opposition leaders on Thursday, activists said, in an unrelenting crackdown that Washington has slammed as "barbaric."
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Syrian troops surround city known for 1982 revolt
BEIRUT – Syrian soldiers and tanks executing a nationwide crackdown on regime opponents surrounded the city of Hama on Thursday, which President Bashar Assad's father laid waste to in 1982 to stamp out an earlier uprising, an activist said. Forces also used clubs to disperse 2,000 demonstrators on a northern university campus.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Syria Continues to Attack Civilians
The Syrian government continues its brutal crackdown on Syrian civilians.
Human rights monitors now say that close to eight hundred people have been killed since March, as the government uses bullets and tanks in many areas throughout the country against unarmed demonstrators calling for freedom and democracy.
There are also reports that thousands of Syrians have been arrested and imprisoned, as security forces hunt suspected opposition sympathizers in a house to house roundup, a tactic honed to a black art by Syria's friend and ally, Iran. There are credible indications that not only is Iran lending material support to Syria to crush dissent, it is helping the Syrian regime monitor the internet and telephone services to arrest protestors and rights activists.
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) - Army shells homes in besieged Syrian city
The Syrian army shelled residential areas in the country's third-largest city yesterday, killing at least one person in a sharp escalation in the government's attempts to crush a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's autocratic rule.
Heavy tank and gunfire rocked at least three suburbs in the besieged city of Homs, scene of some of the largest anti-government demonstrations during the seven-week-long uprising. "There were loud explosions and gunfire from automatic rifles throughout the night and until this morning," a resident said. "The area is totally besieged. We are being shelled." Activists said at least one person was shot dead, most likely by snipers, as he was leaving his home in the Bab Amr area. The reports could not be independently confirmed.
TUNISIA
(h/t JustJennifer 5/12 ) -
Tunisia arrests nearly 200 after protests
Tunisian authorities have arrested nearly 200 people after a series of anti-government protests that culminated in a street battle at the weekend in the capital, the state TAP new agency reported on Tuesday.
Security officials and the army made the arrests in raids on Monday and Tuesday across the North African country where tensions remain high after the ousting in January of autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
The 197 were charged with various crimes including attacking police with stones, breaking a recently imposed curfew, theft and vandalism, TAP said, quoting the Interior Ministry.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
(h/t Dibsa 5/5 ) -
FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in the United Arab Emirates
(Reuters) - As political upheaval sweeps through the Arab world, the federation of seven emirates remains one of two unaffected Gulf Arab states, in addition to Qatar.
The per capita incomes of the UAE and Qatar remain among the highest in the world -- eighth and third, respectively -- thanks to their relatively small populations and oil and gas wealth.
(h/t Dibsa 5/4 ) -
UAE: Human rights officials condemn government crackdown
Human rights advocates decried what they called a “crackdown on civil society” in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday after authorities replaced the leadership of the country's teachers association, a well-established group that had called for democratic reforms, with government officials sympathetic to the administration.
“This attack on civil society is further proof that those in power in the UAE see anyone calling for reform as fair game,” Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director of the New York-based nonprofit organization Human Rights Watch, said in a Tuesday statement. “UAE authorities should immediately stop their hostile takeover of civil society and free the peaceful democracy activists.”
WESTERN SAHARA
(h/t Dibsa 5/6) - Western Sahara: Winning the “war on words” and avoiding actual war
“People will easily be able to sympathize with our issues, but they need the information first.” Senia Bachir Abderahman is talking about the situation in the refugee camp that she grew up in and the frustration that her family and most of her fellow Saharawis (Western Sahara’s indigenous population) cannot escape from this refugee camp because their country is colonised by Morocco.
YEMEN
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Clashes in Yemen injure dozens of protesters
SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni police trying to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters in two cities Thursday wounded 45 people, some by gunfire, according to witnesses. In one of the cities, protesters overran a government building
(h/t Dibsa 5/12) - Yemen steps up protest crackdown after 16 killed
SANAA (AFP) – Yemeni security forces opened fire on an anti-regime rally in Taez on Thursday, wounding dozens, a day after killing 16 demonstrators in a crackdown on protests demanding the president's departure.
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Our Egyptian brethren articulated what people around the region are fighting for, though variations to the theme may exist from country to country.
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translated to English:
1 The departure of Mubarak
2 An end to the current Parliament
3 An end of the state of emergency
4 The creation of a national united government
5 A parliament elected by the people to modify the constitution and run the presidential elections
6 Put those responsible for the killings on trial
7 Put those responsible for stealing the country's money and other acts of corruption on trial
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