Four people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in Manama. Without warning, police launched the crackdown at around 3.00 am (12am GMT) on Thursday, leaving up to 95 protesters injured. Earlier in the week a man was killed at the...
Two deaths have been reported in anti-government demonstrations in Tehran. The deaths came as anti-government protesters clashed with police and pro-government supporters. It is not clear which camp the dead demonstrators belonged to, with both the...
As a tribute to Saneh Jaleh, who two days ago lost his life in the fight for freedom of expression, I have translated a short story written by him. Saneh Jaleh, a 26-year-old theatre student at Tehran's Arts University was killed by the regime's...
Journalists covering the anti-government protests in Yemen have come under attack from the police and pro-government supporters. Many were physically attacked in the course of covering the protests, while others had their equipment seized or...
Young Syrian blogger, Tal al-Mallouhi, has been sentenced to five years in prison by a state security court on espionage charges. Mallouhi, who was 18 at the time of her arrest in December 2009, was accused of spying for the US embassy in Egypt and...
President Saleh is walking a fine line — using violence to disperse peaceful protests works until civilian deaths make international news. Iona Craig reports
The cars started flowing through downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square again on Sunday. Most of the protesters, who had made the massive public space their revolutionary home since 28 January, departed willingly. They meticulously cleaned it before they...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s praise of the Egyptian people and encouragement of Cairo's protesters in the past two weeks have a satirical edge; especially given the pair's violent wrath towards their own...
Shahira Amin, the number two at Nile television, explains why she resigned from Egyptian state television
Shahira Amin, the number two at Nile television, explains why she resigned from Egyptian state television When I got into the car to drive to work on Thursday 3 February, I had no conscious plans to quit my job. I took the same route I take every...