Bahrain: Campaign stops tear gas statement

via Bahrainwatch, 7 January 2014 International Campaign Led By NGOs Succeeds in Pressuring Korean Regulator To Cancel Shipment Advocacy group Bahrain Watch announced today that the #StopTheShipment campaign it launched two months ago to prevent a massive shipment of tear gas to Bahrain, has achieved a major milestone.  The Financial Times reported today that South…

Video: Outlawing the Egyptian Revolution

What you can do: Print out these posters [anti_protest_poster_bw and anti_protest_poster] and send us a solidarity picture via Facebook or Twitter (@menasolidarity). Use this Free the Detainees sign Pass a resolution in your union branch condemning the anti-protest law Write urgently to the Egyptian authorities calling for the release of all political detainees and an end…

Bahrain: Jailed opposition leaders denied medical care

Prominent opposition leaders, who were jailed in the crackdown which followed Bahrain’s uprising in 2011, are being denied medical treatment for their conditions. They are among a group of opposition activists who received harsh jail sentences as the Bahraini authorities sought to crush resistance to the repression. Abduljalil Al-Singace (top right), a former professor of Mechanical…

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Egypt: Students demand freedom for jailed colleagues

Protests continued across Egyptian university campuses last week, as revolutionary activists organised rallies in commemoration of the battle of Mohamed Mahmoud Street in 2011 and mobilised in solidarity with jailed colleagues. A march organised by the “Revolutionaries” coalition in Cairo on the anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud protests drew thousands into the streets. The clashes…