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13 weeks 5 days ago - Bahrain

Bahrain announced the deportation of four foreign activists for "taking part in illegal demonstrations," bringing to 12  the number expelled over the past week.

The four were deported for "lying on immigration forms" as their "visas were issued for the purposes of tourism but all were participating in illegal demonstrations," the official BNA news agency reported late on Friday.

The news agency did not specify the nationalities of those deported but the main Shia opposition group Al-Wefaq said they included one American and one Briton.

Last Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the launch of month-long Shia-led pro-democracy protests that were bloodily crushed by the kingdom's Sunni minority rulers with the help of a Saudi-led military intervention.

On the anniversary, the authorities announced the expulsion of eight Americans. Three days earlier, they deported two more.

The authorities have multiplied restrictions around the anniversary not only for foreign activists but also the international media, denying press visas to several news organisations including AFP news agency.

Tiny but strategic Bahrain is the home base of the US Fifth Fleet. [AFP]

Tags arrested, deported, foreign activists
15 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Prosecutors have ordered 25 protesters detained for 15 days pending investigation into their role in violent protests near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Daily News Egypt has reported.

Since fighting between riot police and civilians began on Thursday, 81 people have been arrested, the newspaper reported. Eight people have died in Cairo and five in Suez; police have used tear gas and shotgun pellets on the protesters.

 

Tags arrested, Cairo, interior ministry, protesters
26 weeks 2 days ago - Egypt

Egyptian state television has broadcast footage of what it alleges are three foreigners arrested by police for participating in street battles near Tahrir Square, on the road to the Interior Ministry. 

Firas al-Atraqchi, an associate professor of practice in journalism at the American University in Cairo, tweeted that the IDs displayed showed that some of the men were enrolled at the university.

Tags americans, arrested, foreigners, state tv
26 weeks 4 days ago - Egypt

Prior to the crackdown this afternoon, the military was absent from the violence in and around Tahrir Square, but now that they have participated by assisting Central Security forces, some are worried that those arrested won't be treated under the civilian justice system:

SarahngbPresence of MPs means Military Trials for any arrested TT @Monasosh: وجود الجيش معناه إن ممكن أي حد يتقبض عليه دلوقتي يحولوه محاكمة عسكريةSun Nov 20 15:45:21

Tags arrested, CSF, military trials
39 weeks 1 day ago - Syria

A woman died under torture in western Syria and more than 150 people were arrested over the past 24 hours in a Damascus suburb, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday.

The Britain-based group said that a 28-year-old woman who was arrested a week ago died under torture in the city of Khan Shehoun on Wednesday.

Military and security forces arrested 27 people in the Harasta suburb of Damascus Wednesday morning, after sealing off the district and arresting 120 people the previous day, the Observatory added.

The industrial district, 10km northeast of Damascus, has been the scene of protests since anti-regime protests broke out in mid-March.

Rallies erupted Tuesday night in Douma and Daraya in the southwest, and around the capital in Kanaker, Zabadani, Madaya and Kisweh, witnesses said.

European nations and the United States pressed Wednesday for UN sanctions against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his entourage for their deadly crackdown on opposition protests. - AFP

Tags arrested, damascus, Syria protests
45 weeks 16 hours ago - Damascus, Syria

 

A civilian was killed, seven others injured by Syrian security fire on Thursday during protests in Der az-Zour in east Syria.

Many intellectuals and artists were arrested by Syrian security forces on Wednesday during a demonstration attended by hundreds of the artists and intellectuals. 

The demonstrations which took place in al-Maidan neighbourhood in central Damascus were a call for  freedom and a halt of security crackdowns to quell protests.

Meanwhile, human rights sources have said at least eight people were killed during security crackdown operations conducted by the Syrian army in Jebel az-Zawiya in Edlib governorate.

The Syrian army used tanks and armoured vehicles to clamp down on a number of towns, while security forces conducted widespread arrest campaigns targeting political activists and protesters in several Syrian towns and villages.

 

Tags al-Maidan, arrested, Deir ez-Zor, killed

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