Tag: Protesters

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers killed four protesters and wounded seven others on Friday when they opened fire on an anti-regime rally in the northern province of Amran, officials and Shia rebels said. The shooting, which came a day after the opposition and clerics offered embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh a smooth exit from power, took place in the village of Semla, 170 kilometres from the capital Sanaa. "Two protesters were killed and nine others were wounded when soldiers opened fire

LAHORE - Several civil society activists including Salmaan Taseer's son and daughter gathered outside Lahore Press Club on Thursday to protest against Bhatti's assassination. The protest was held by different groups at separate spots but they later converged into one and walked till The Mall.
The Christian community held a prayer led by Bishop Victor Pal which was attended by several Christians including Christian Democratic Alliance. At the protest the Centre for Human Rights

SOHAR - Omani forces in tanks dispersed on Tuesday protesters who were blocking the port in the Sohar industrial city and the coastal road to the capital Muscat, an AFP reporters said. The operation went peacefully and Omani forces drove away protesters who had been keeping vigil at the Earth Roundabout, a landmark intersection in Sohar where clashes erupted Sunday killing at least one protester.
It came a day after the United States urged Oman to show restraint and press ahead

SOHAR - Fresh clashes erupted between Omani police and protesters on Monday, a day after police killed at least one as the turmoil rocking the Arab world reached the normally calm Gulf sultanate. Hundreds of demonstrators stormed a police station in the key industrial area of Sohar, northwest of the capital Muscat, and police responded by firing tear gas.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the clashes that broke out near Earth Roundabout, a key intersection on the

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday said it was weapons manufactured and delivered to "dictators" by the United States that were killing protesters in uprisings around the Arab world.
The hardliner said that the United States and its allies must be blamed for imposing dictatorships on regional countries now in the grip of deadly revolts.
These "dictators who are killing their own people are incapable of manufacturing even simple things and they are

LAHORE - About 100 activists from different schools of thought staged a protest on Sunday demanding the execution of Raymond Davis. Young protesters from the Pakistan Revolution Movement, Pakistan Ethesab Party and Khaksaar Tehreek Pakistan gathered at the Lahore Press Club and demanded the government banish American spies from Pakistan. The protesters chanted slogans against the US and its discriminatory policies towards the third world countries.
The activists agreed that the

CAIRO - Egypt's ruling military council apologised after military police beat protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, but activists called for fresh protests to denounce violence by the authorities.
A security official and witnesses said that military police surrounded protesters shortly after midnight, beating them with batons and using tasers to disperse a crowd of several hundred that had gathered to push for reforms.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that "what

SANAA - Thousands of Yemeni anti-regime demonstrators chanted defiantly on Wednesday after government loyalists shot two of them dead, while eight ruling party MPs resigned over the suppression of protests. "Enough! Enough! The criminal attacks during the night!," chanted the mostly young demonstrators encamped at Sanaa University in the capital, after gunmen attacked them during the night, killing two of them and wounding 23, according to witnesses and medics.
"I presented my

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

MANAMA - Bahrain protesters vowed on Wednesday not to budge from Pearl Square, epicentre of anti-regime demonstrations, despite the release of leading Shiite opposition activists and renewed calls by the king for talks. "Even if they put the gun in my mouth and order me to leave, I will not," said Sabah Abadi, a retired municipal employee who sat in a tent with his son and friends in the square. "I'm here day and night."
One day after a massive protest clogged the main roads of

RABAT - Thousands of protesters gathered in the Moroccan capital on Sunday to demand that King Mohammed give up some of his powers and clamp down on government corruption. Some people in the crowd were waving Tunisian and Egyptian flags in recognition of the popular uprisings that overthrew the two countries' presidents.
A protest organiser said there were more than 5,000 participants while a police officer told Reuters there were fewer than 3,000 people at the protest in Rabat.

KARACHI - Enraged protesters took to the streets and scuffled with police in Godhra Colony, New Karachi on Saturday to protest the murder of a prayer leader of the area. Adnan Qadri, the prayer leader at Rabbani Masjid in New Karachi, Sector 11-E, was gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle on Friday night.
Qadri was believed to be an activist of the banned outfit Jamaatud Dawa. Following Qadri's death, many people in Godhra Colony started firing in the air to protest

MANAMA - Bahraini riot police retreated from Pearl Square on Saturday and thousands of anti-government protesters streamed back into their former stronghold in Manama. Crowds had approached Pearl Square from different directions. They stood facing riot police for half an hour. All of a sudden police ran to their buses and retreated. The protesters, cheering and waving flags, ran to the centre of the traffic circle, reoccupying it even before all the police had left. The crowd waved

ALGIERS - Algerian police in riot gear on Saturday surrounded about 500 protesters trying to stage a march through the capital inspired by uprisings in other parts of the Arab world in defiance of a ban. A Reuters reporter at the scene said a group chanting "Algeria - free and democratic!" tried to reach May 1 Square in the city centre to begin the protest march but were driven two blocks away by police using batons.
They were then corralled into the courtyard of a residential

CAIRO - Several hundred Egyptian protesters attempted to block parliamentary buildings in Cairo on Wednesday as part of their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old regime.
The building was protected by troops backed by armoured vehicles, but there was no violence, with protesters instead staging a sit-in to blockade the lower house, just as others have occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Parliament is dominated by Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party

CAIRO - Dozens of employees and clients waited anxiously on Monday outside Egypt's central administrative complex, Mugamma el-Tahrir, as opposition protesters occupying Tahrir Square blocked all entrances. "Protesters have prevented us from getting in," said Kamal, who idled with a group of colleagues some 20 metres yards away from imposing slab of a building, the heart of Egypt's highly bureaucratic state machine.
Separating them from the building, which reportedly houses 14

LAHORE - Family members of the three men, who were killed by Raymond Davis, along with hundreds of activists of Insaf Students Federation (ISF) on Thursday rallied against Davis and demanded that he should be charged under terrorist offences. The protesters threatened the federal and provincial governments for a mass movement if their demands were not fulfilled.
The protesters rallied from Qartaba Chowk Mozang to Shimla Hill, a few yards away from the American Consulate building.