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Experiments with truth: 4/18/11
Original article at https://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/04/experiments-with-truth-41811/
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- On Sunday thousands took the streets across Syria demanding that President Bashar al-Assad step down. At least 13 people were killed and many more arrested when Syrian forces attacked ongoing protests in two towns.
- In Yemen, at least 22 people were wounded Sunday when government forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh fired on pro-democracy protesters. The crackdown came just one day after thousands of women took to the streets to protest a claim by Saleh that demonstrators are violating Islamic law because they are allowing women and men to mix.
- A Bahraini hunger striker protesting the assault and detention of her father and husband was taken to hospital Sunday but was released after refusing an intravenous tube.
- In Serbia, some 50,000 protesters Saturday gathered in the capital, Belgrade, to protest against the government and call for early elections.
- Hundreds of people attended a ‘kiss-in’ protest at a London pub after a gay couple claimed they were thrown out for kissing.
- In Pakistan, enraged citizens held protest demonstrations in different parts of Karachi against unannounced load shedding by the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) despite increasing the cost of electricity.
- Around 150 demonstrators set up chairs for a ‘sit- in’ protest in front of the Chinese embassy in Berlin on Sunday to demand the release of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei.
- On Sunday, 6,000 Palestinian prisoner launched a one-day hunger strike to protest the internal Palestinian split and Israeli measures.
