Several hundred thousand filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the biggest outpouring yet demanding the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Protesters have given Mubarak until Friday to leave the country.
Initial media reports that protesters had burned down an ancient synagogue in the Tunisian city of Gabes were later refuted, with accusations of provocation by ex-regime members.
Authorities in both the West Bank and Gaza shut down Egypt solidarity rallies, as Jordan announced a new government and “day of rage” protests are called for Yemen and Syria.
Student strikers at the University of Puerto Rico continued using mass civil disobedience to push their demand that the university drop an $800 tuition surcharge, with campuses occupied.
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”?
