Tag: Protesters

Tens of thousands rallied in Sanaa on Friday to "reject" Yemen's dependence on the United States and Saudi Arabia, saying badly burned President Ali...

Syrian forces fired on demonstrators on Friday killing nine and wounding several others as thousands pour onto the streets of Damascus. Activits said thousands...

Yemeni protesters demonstrated on Monday demanding the formation of an interim ruling council to prevent the wounded president from returning to power and the...

Forces loyal to the embattled Yemeni president killed 20 protesters as they dispersed a sit-in in Taez, an organiser said on Monday, as suspected...

Demonstrators began to flee a square in Yemen’s capital Wednesday as security forces attacked pro-opposition troops led by dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar who...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told a mass rally of supporters on Friday that he would resist calls to quit, describing as “outlaws” tens...

Syrian protesters pledged on Wednesday to press ahead with their "revolution" in the face of sweeping arrests by authorities, as France called for sanctions...

Anti-regime protesters called for permanent sit-ins across Syria from Tuesday as the authorities were reported to have arrested more than 1,000 people in their...

AMMAN - Thousands of Syrians chanted slogans calling for greater freedom at independence day rallies on Sunday, witnesses said, a day after President Bashar al-Assad promised to lift emergency law.
"The people want freedom," several hundred people shouted at the grave of independence leader Ibrahim Hananu in Syria's second city Aleppo, which has been mostly free of pro-democracy protests that erupted more than a month ago in the south. Hundreds also turned out in the southern

CAIRO - Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak, in detention pending a probe into state violence against protesters, was reported Thursday to be in "stable" condition after suffering a heart attack.
The official MENA news agency in a brief statement said the 82-year-old former strongman's condition was "stable and reassuring." Egyptian protesters who spearheaded a popular uprising that toppled Mubarak in February, hailed his detention and that of his two sons as a "positive step" by

SANAA = At least seven people were killed including four policemen who clashed with a dissident army unit, as hundreds of thousands of anti-regime protesters rallied across Yemen on Wednesday. "Police attacked an army checkpoint in Amran province," 170 kilometres (105 miles) north of Sanaa, "killing one officer and wounding two soldiers," a military official told AFP. The four policemen died as the security forces traded fire with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades in the

ISLAMABAD - The protest rally taken out by teachers and students against the Higher Education Commission's proposed devolution on Tuesday turned euphoric after the participants heard the Supreme Court had barred the government from dissolving the HEC. More than 500 students and professors from various universities had assembled outside the National Press Club to press their demands.
PML-Q lawmaker, Marvi Memon and JUI senator Azam Khan Swati were also there to express solidarity

DAMASCUS - Syrian students rallied in Damascus on Monday to express solidarity with protesters killed over the weekend, as the army moved in on the flashpoint town of Banias. France and Germany, meanwhile, slammed the deadly assaults by security forces on anti-regime protesters and called on President Bashar al-Assad to make good on his promises of reform.
"Students rallied in solidarity with the victims of Daraa and Banias, chanting 'We will sacrifice our soul and blood for you

CAIRO - More than 1,000 Egyptian protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday after an overnight sit-in demonstration when the army backed down on a threat to disperse them. The protesters, who blocked the square with a charred army truck, barbed wire and beams, chanted against military chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who has been in charge since president Hosni Mubarak's ouster in February.
"The people demand the toppling of the field marshal," they chanted, after spending

NICOSIA - Syrian security forces killed a total of 28 people on Saturday, human rights activists said Sunday. Twenty-six died at the funerals of protesters killed in and around the southern agricultural town of Daraa, while two more were shot dead in the industrial town of Homs, in west central Syria.
"Police and security services broke up peaceful demonstrations on Saturday by firing live ammunition, causing the death of 26 people," six Syrian human rights group said in a joint

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers who have sided with anti-regime protesters intervened on Monday to prevent police from taking on thousands of demonstrators camped at a square in central Sanaa, an AFP correspondent said.

SANAA - Two Yemenis died and dozens were wounded on Sunday when police used live rounds, tear gas and batons to try to break up protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who called for an end to weeks of unrest.
The two dead were among around 10 people hit by bullets in the violence in Taiz, south of the capital, where many were suffering from the effects of tear gas, a doctor said. He put the number of wounded at over 100. "Armoured vehicles and tanks are surrounding us.