Fatah leader Tawfik Tirawi called for a “day of rage” against the United States next Friday after the Obama administration blocked a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the West Bank.
Mexican Federal Police allegedly shot radio journalist Gilardo Mota Figueroa when they opened fire on a protest against President Felipe Calderón’s visit to Oaxaca City.
Armed men set fire to the house of Malu García Andrade, while she was attending a protest encampment in support of other human rights activists under siege in violence-torn Ciudad Juárez.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at a congressional hearing that the Guantánamo Bay prison camp is unlikely to be closed any time soon because of security concerns.
Three Turkish journalists allegedly involved with aiding the Ergenekon coup plot were jailed amid foreign concerns for the treatment of journalists within the country.
Tens of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate the fall of Mubarak and pressure the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to deliver on pledges of reform.
Three protesters were killed in the cities of Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Protests in several cities across Iraq also left more than 100 people wounded.
Street clashes between protesters and security forces left several dead in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, with violence also reported in Kuwait and Jordan.
Amnesty International released a report asserting new evidence that the the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in Egypt has been torturing protester-detainees.
A federal judge in Virginia ruled that former Somali prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantar is not entitled to legal immunity from civil lawsuits over human rights abuses.
Israel’s Knesset approved introduction of a bill banning boycotts against the state, following a heated debate during which Arab and left-wing MKs walked out.
A report from Israeli rights organization Yesh Din shows 91% of Palestinian complaints about settler violence on the West Bank end without indictments.
