Aid workers protest that while media reports on Syria focus on the political stalemate, a humanitarian crisis grows, with over a million displaced and 3 million facing hunger.
The Melkite Catholic archbishop of Aleppo flees Syria after his offices are sacked by jihadists—as the US State Department establishes an Istanbul office to aid the Syrian rebels.
Security forces in Bahrain used tear gas and rubber bullets after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station, in what official media called a “terror attack.”
Egypt President Mohammed Morsi issued a new law that bans pre-trial detentions of journalists for speaking out against the government, overturning the Mubarak-era practice.
Authorities say they suspect Qaddafi supporters in three car bomb attacks in downtown Tripoli that came as the streets were filled with worshippers headed to mosques for Eid prayers.
The British anarcho-syndicalist website Solidarity Federation runs a statement from a representative of a “group of young Syrian anarchists and anti-authoritarians from Aleppo.”
Syrian forces and their supporting Shabbiha fighters have committed “war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law,” a UN report finds.
A general strike shut down Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid region—birthplace of last year’s uprising—to demand the release of detainees and the resignation of the governor.
As urban warfare rages in Damascus and Aleppo, rebel gunmen abducted 47 Iranian pilgrims outside the capital—and a mob attack on Alawites was reported in Turkey.
The Egyptian government announced that it has requested the release of the last of its citizens currently being held at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Sudan to investigate claims of excessive force by government troops against protesters in Darfur, resulting in eight deaths.
Amnesty International published a report holding the Syrian government responsible for human rights violations in Aleppo that AI claims amount to crimes against humanity.
