Damascus bomb blast aftermath
Video footage from the bomb outside the Zain al-Abideen mosque in Damascus, that targeted a bus carrying Syrian security forces.
Following comments from John Yates -overseeing police reform in Bahrain- that if protesters were being abused then it would be on YouTube…the opposition al-Wefaq has posted video of what it says is recent footage of people being brutally tortured by police in the country.
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Egypt’s revolution has been quite a ride for Mubarak’s former right hand man… It has been a dramatic few weeks in Egyptian politics. On April 6, 2012, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s former vice president and intelligence chief,announced his candidacy for president. Omar Suleiman is considered by many Egyptians to be part of the counter-revolution, one of the [...]
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Decision to go ahead with race plays into regime’s hands says rights group… The decision to go ahead with the Grand Prix on April 22, 2012, gives Bahrain’s rulers the opportunity they are seeking to obscure the seriousness of the country’s human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. The decision was announced [...]
Continue reading …A new video has emerged from Bahrain that appears to show police assisting looters, who are targeting a supermarket that allegedly helped anti-regime protesters. According to Al Jazeera: The market in the video is owned by Jawad, one of Bahrain’s largest retailers. The company has earned the ire of pro-government Bahrainis because it supposedly served food [...]
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Kuwaiti man mistakenly arrested and tortured over Twitter account… Throughout the year of 2011, Kuwait had many cases of arrests of twitter users. It started with two tweeps getting arrested for insulting a religious sect. Other cases had a political nature as those tweeps played a role in protesting the former prime minister who was accused of [...]
Continue reading …Syrian security forces summarily executed over 100 – and possibly many more – civilians and wounded or captured opposition fighters during recent attacks on cities and towns, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. The 25-page report, “In Cold Blood: Summary Executions by Syrian Security Forces and Pro-Government Militias,” documents more than a dozen [...]
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The intriguing tale of the US Congressman, the lobbying firm and the Bahrain uprising… Last year, as the government of Bahrain violently suppressed an Arab Spring protest movement, an unlikely champion of the small Gulf nation emerged on Capitol Hill in Washington: Democratic Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, the delegate from American Samoa. Faleomavaega, who has been [...]
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