Live Blog: Middle East Protests April 10

Live Blog: Middle East Protests April 10

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  10:48am

  SYRIA Sources tell Al Jazeera that Daraa, where dozens of people were killed in Friday's protests, is 80 per cent paralysed. Children were sent back home from schools and most government buildings are not operational.
  
  There are checkpoints between the old city and the new city.

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  10:10am

  EGYPT Several hundred protesters stayed in Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight and have barricaded the square with a burnt-out army vehicle, barbed wire and beams.

  "The people demand the toppling of the Field Marshal," they chanted, referring to military chief Hussein
  Tantawi who was handed power after former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

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  10:00am

  SYRIA Watch Cal Perry's report from Syria, where rights groups say 37 protesters were killed on Friday. Please note that the video contains some disturbing pictures of violence.

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  7:05am

  SYRIA An resident in the coastal city of Banias tells Al Jazeera that military has been deployed there after protests yesterday and that gunfire can be heard.

  "No one can leave or enter. Schools are closed," she says, adding that people are not going to work.

  She says about 6,000 people were protesting in the city yesterday. Cars were set on fire and shops destroyed.

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  3:00am

  SYRIA - Al Jazeer has obtained video from Daraa, the scene of the Syrian protests' worst violence, showing Friday's protests and the security forces' heavy handed response. The government has sought to prevent journalists from visiting Daraa.

   

   

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  2:37am

  EGYPT - Despite a warning from the ruling military council that protesters who remained in Tahrir Square would be cleared out with "firmness and force," security forces apparantly have not acted against hundreds who remained in the square for a second straight night. With just a few minutes to go before the military's curfew ends, there have been no reports of violence.

  Check out our story on the violent dispersal of protesters on Friday night.

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  1:18am

  BAHRAIN - The Interior Ministry has confirmed the deaths on Saturday of two people being held in its detention centers (one death had earlier been reported by the Associated Press).

  According to the ministry, Ali Isa Saqer, 31, "created chaos at the detention center and that led to the interference of security forces to bring situation to normal, but he resisted them and sustained various injuries in the process. He was referred to the hospital and died later."

  Zakaroya Rashid Hassan, 40, died of complications from sickle cell anemia, the ministry said. This is the second time Bahraini authorities have said a detainee died of sickle cell anemia.

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  1:14am

  SYRIA - Two witnesses told the Reuters news agency that Syrian security forces fired on mourners near a mosque in Deraa on Saturday, but our team on the ground says not gunshots were fired during the funeral procession. A sources says state security did, however, fire on protesters near Deraa's customs building.

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  12:50am

  To catch up with Saturday's events from Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and elsewhere, check our April 9 live blog.

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  12:42am

  EGYPT - Hundreds of protesters remain in central Cairo's Tahrir Square despite the military curfew, which began nearly an hour ago. People in the square are reporting a tense atmosphere on Twitter and, in the last few minutes, that some protesters have been whistling and banging on metal railings in apparent warning.