Egypt ends four year blockade on Gaza. Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza beginning Saturday. The move opens doors for medical care, education and livelihoods for Gazans, first time in four years. Palestinians protest at the…
Stikkord: Demokrati
Quiet Revolution in Rabat: Morocco’s Youth Want Their Own Form of Change
Quiet Revolution in Rabat: Morocco’s Youth Want Their Own Form of Change AFP Young people across Morocco are demanding change and more democratic freedoms. King Mohammed VI has allowed for reform of the country’s constitution, but a bomb attack last month in Marrakech…
Pro-democracy activists arrested in Georgia
Pro-democracy activists arrested in Georgia Staunch former Saakashvili supporters and political insiders take to the streets of Georgia – and are arrested – as protests in the capital Tbilisi continue. Protestors massed for a second night in the Georgian capital…
Opposing demonstrations come off peacefully in Hamra
Opposing demonstrations come off peacefully in Hamra. BEIRUT: Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian activists rallied in the Beirut district of Hamra Monday in honor of protesters killed in demonstrations in Syria, while less than two blocks away, demonstrators chanted…
SAUDI ARABIA: Security forces clamp down on those allegedly behind campaign to defy ban on women drivers
SAUDI ARABIA: Security forces clamp down on those allegedly behind campaign to defy ban on women drivers Saudi Arabian authorities have clamped down on women’s rights activists after a bold call by a group of women in the ultra-conservative kingdom…
15-M in Spain: nonviolence is now on the streets
15-M in Spain: nonviolence is now on the streets. Those who interpreted the “Arab Spring” as a phenomenon that would only touch a few countries—in general dictatorships personifying the Arab world—have not understood the phenomenon that has awoken and that…
Anonymous and the Arab uprisings
Anonymous and the Arab uprisings – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. The cyberactivists discuss their work and the broader global push for freedom of speech and freedom from oppression. Anonymous’ propaganda poster for Operation Egypt, a campaign in support…
Tanks storm south Syria city and activists call for general strike in new tactic
Tanks storm south Syria city and activists call for general strike in new tactic. Syrian women shout slogans against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration. (File photo) By ABEER TAYEL Al Arabiya with Agencies The West warned of more…
Spain’s Tahrir Square
Spain’s Tahrir Square Spain’s people’s movement has finally awoken. La Puerta del Sol in Madrid is now the country’s Tahrir Square, and the «Arab Spring» has been joined by what is now bracing to become a long «European Summer.» As…
Moroccan forces disperse opposition protest
Moroccan forces disperse opposition protest | Reuters. (Reuters) – Moroccan forces used truncheons to disperse a pro-democracy protest on the southern outskirts of the kingdom’s capital Rabat on Sunday, wounding several people, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Dozens…