Police in Bahrain fired tear gas as anti-government protesters clashed with regime loyalists. Meanwhile, police flooded the streets to suppress “Day of Rage” protests in Saudi Arabia.
Police opened fire to disperse protesters at Qatif in Saudi Arabia’s mainly Shi’ite east, leaving one wounded, as Sunni and Shi’ite students clashed in neighboring Bahrain.
Seven Coptic Christians were shot dead in street clashes with Muslims in Cairo, as pro-Mubarak goons armed with knives and machetes attacked protesters in Tahrir Square.
Thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets on March 7 to protest against the kingdom’s naturalization policy, which they say is aimed at changing the demographic balance in the Sunni-ruled but Shi’ite-majority country. Protesters marched on government immigration offices while… Read moreBahrain: Shi’ite protesters march against naturalization policy
A Yemeni protester died of gunshot wounds after being hit when police opened fire overnight on anti-regime demonstrators who attempted to establish an encampment outside Sanaa University.
Suspected al-Qaeda gunmen killed four soldiers in Yemen—one day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to yield to protesters demanding his immediate resignation.
Thousands of protesters faced down riot police at Manama’s al-Qudaibiya Palace, where Bahrain’s cabinet meets, chanting slogans against the small but strategic Persian Gulf state’s monarchy.
Shi’ites held unprecedented protest rallies in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province as security forces fired on demonstrators in northern Yemen and the Egyptian port of Alexandria.
Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the rising tide of Arab revolution on Israeli subversion, while Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi blamed it on al-Qaeda. Life’s little ironies.
Although the regime has effectively suppressed press accounts, dissident websites in Syria say security forces have dispersed three demonstrations in the past few weeks.
Tunisia’s interim prime minister resigned amid continuing street clashes, with deadly repression also reported from Oman. In Bahrain, 18 MPs resigned in protest of the killings of demonstrators.
Tens of thousands took to the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Yemen and Bahrain to demand political reforms. The march in Tunis was the largest since the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
