The main Mexican intelligence agency “has allowed [US government] officers to interview foreign nationals detained at Mexican immigration detention centers,” says a cable released by WikiLeaks.
Hundreds started a fast in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 30 massacre of 15 youths in the city’s Villas de Salvárcar neighborhood.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has announced its new schedule for the long-delayed runoffs for the presidency and for many legislative seats.
The US is planning for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to remain in the country through 2013, according to a confidential US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
Israel’s Netanyahu raised the specter of an Islamist take-over and Obama called for an “orderly transition” as a “march of a million” and indefinite general strike are declared in Egypt.
Palestinian security forces shut down a demonstration in front of the Egyptian embassy in Ramallah, and called in one of the organizers for questioning.
Haifa-based human rights activist Ameer Makhoul was sentenced to nine years in prison on “espionage” charges—despite the fact that his “confession” was made under torture.
Which is more maddening: that an Australian court imprisoned a “Palestine solidarity activist” for spewing Jew-hatred at a rally, or that his spewing was tolerated by the “activists”?
As angry protesters again filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a sixth day of defiance of authorities, a banner in English read: “USA, why do you support the tyrant and not the people?”
Students clashed with police in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities as protesters demanded that President Omar al-Bashir turn himself in to the International Criminal Court.
Protesters clashed with riot police in Gabon, following contested elections and WikiLeaks revelations of corruption in President Ali Bongo Odimba’s ruling dynasty.
Protesters calling for the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed with the regime’s supporters and plainclothes police in Sana’a, the capital.
