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Bahrain Sentences Medical Workers for Treating Protesters

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Edward Yeranian | Cairo A security court in the Gulf state of Bahrain has sentenced 20 doctors and medics to long jail sentences for treating wounded demonstrators during unrest earlier this year. The court sentence is expected to further enrage…

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Syrian Troops Mass Near Border Town as Tensions Mount

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 2 Comments

Syrian forces have surrounded a town on the Iraqi border as the country’s opposition took a step closer to forming an alternative government that would challenge President Bashar al-Assad‘s grip on power. About 1,000 troops flown in by helicopter and…

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Saudi Arabia Bans All Protests

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 2 Comments

Source: VOA Saudi Arabia has banned all protests following several small gatherings of demonstrators demanding change in the conservative kingdom. The country’s Interior Ministry announced Saturday on state television that security forces would use what it called “all measures”…

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Hundreds Protest Lebanon’s Sectarian Government System

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Source: VOA Hundreds of people protested in Lebanon Sunday against the country’s sectarian political system. The protesters in Beirut carried signs and chanted slogans calling for a secular government. Lebanon’s power-sharing system requires that the president be a Maronite…

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Bahrain Continues Violent Crackdown on Protesters

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Source: VOA – By Phillip Walter Wellman Bahrain’s main hospital has been flooded with patients after security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators. Fifty-five people are reported injured, seven of them are said to be in critical condition. Witnesses said …

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Security Forces Fire on Bahrain Mourners

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Security forces have fired shots in Manama on Friday, where demonstrators were gathering for an anti-government rally, in defiance of a government ban on protests. Hospital officials say there are casualties. Mourners began chanting opposition slogans during a funeral procession…

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Feb 1, 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini Returns to Iran

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic…