(Photos: Francesco La Pia) Pro-king royalists violently quelled a February 20 movement protest in Rabat’s Old City, on the eve of Morocco’s much trumpeted referendum on the king’s proposed changes to the Constitution. «We are here to express…
Remember protests in Kyrgyzstan? They came about quickly, were marked by violence from nearly the beginning, and managed to oust an entrenched and corrupt leadership. A year later, young people (over half of the population is under 25)…
SALT LAKE CITY — On the day he faced being sent to prison for as long as 10 years, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher called for a nonviolent revolution against a corrupt federal government and the pursuit of a society where…
Hundreds of protesters led by a bulldozer marched on the Wall in Bil’in today after the Israeli army began dismantling it earlier this week. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ank MK Mohammed Barakah participated in the demonstration. Israeli soldiers open…
Bahrain’s government says it has only tried a small number of those involved in recent mass protests [Reuters] Police and protesters have clashed in Bahrain after eight Shia Muslim activists accused of plotting a coup to overthrow the Gulf Arab state’s Sunni monarchy were sentenced to…
Zainab al-Khawaja allowed to spend six minutes with her husband Wafu Almajed, who was arrested in April The young Bahraini woman who became a prominent voice of the Arab uprisings after going on hunger strike to protest at the detention…
Words of Resistance in the Syrian Intifada We can trace what’s happening — and may yet happen — in Syria by what the protesters chant at their demonstrations: The slogans are already a history, a politics, a manifesto and a…
The heroes of this Arab Spring are not magnificent saints nor they are genius creatures… They are ordinary people; they are me and you, putting efforts and sacrifices on the frontline for change, says Rowaida Mroue. Words about “human values”…
Activists say 34 people killed in the city of Hama during one of the largest anti-government protests in the uprising. Syrian children carry pictures of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib and hold candles during a protest [Reuters] Syrian security forces have opened…
Syria Continues Attacks on Protesters While Calling for Dialogue CAIRO — Syria’s military forces continued pressing to crush a three-month-old popular uprising on Thursday, shelling a string of southern and central towns even as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton…