A day after martial law was declared in the kingdom, Bahraini security forces have carried out a crackdown on protesters camped out at Pearl Square in the capital Manama. Security forces, backed by tanks, drove out the protesters from their camps...
The historic collapse of the once feared Egyptian police state has spawned a Wikileaks-style flood of secret information into the public sphere. Starting on 5 March, crowds of protesters forced their way into buildings around the country belonging...
Security forces reportedly used tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and live ammunition to disperse anti-government protesters in the capital Sana'a over the weekend. Six protesters died in the clashes while up to a hundred were left injured.
Ali Hassan Al Jaber, an Al Jazeera cameraman, was killed in Libya on 12 March after being shot by unknown attackers, in an ambush by forces loyal to Gaddafi. After covering an anti-government protest, the Al Jazeera team was on its way to the city...
A BBC news team trying to reach the town of Zawiya were detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-Gaddafi forces. The team of three were detained on Monday at an army roadblock and taken to a military barracks in Tripoli where they...
Security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters trying to join a camp at the University of Sana'a, killing one and injuring 100. The police were accused of using tear gas and rubber bullets, and firing live rounds into the crowd....
The government may claim that media workers are protected, but the reality on Yemen’s streets is very different, says Iona Craig
Blogger and human rights activist, Sultan al-Khalaifi, has been detained by security forces after criticising the country's censorship rules on his blog. Khalaifi, who is founder of a rights group campaigning on cases of detention in Qatar, has...
A sense of a time that slipped between our fingers, or a consciousness, of a strength retained and a power that it is still within our grasp…one feeling evolved into the other watching this historic clip (Facebook) from 1979 on the first day of a...
What would you do if the music you wanted to make were forbidden ? What if someone in power didn't want it heard? Would you be silent? Or would you play it louder ? I first heard the voice of Mahsa Vahdat at the height of the people’s uprising in...