Experiments with truth: 7/11/11

The Editors July 11, 2011

Tens of thousands of Malaysian protesters ignored police warnings and descended on the capital Kuala Lumpur to attend a banned rally on Friday, demanding electoral reforms. Police arrested almost 1,700 people, fired rounds of tear gas and used toxic-laced water cannons to disperse the crowds.

Thousands of Moroccans staged protests on Sunday, the latest in a series of peaceful demonstrations by a youth-led movement to demand reforms that go beyond constitutional changes crafted by the palace.

Members of the 6 April Movement in Egypt and others who have been staging a sit-in at Al-Mansheia Square in Port Said declared Saturday that they have started a hunger strike at 2pm that will last until all their demands are met.

Israel has begun deporting activists attempting to enter the occupied West Bank as part of a so-called “flytilla” operation. Thirty-six people were deported from Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport to Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday. Another group is expected to be deported on a Geneva-bound flight today.

On Friday, there was a demonstration in the northern city of Tripoli in support of the uprising in Syria.

In Iraq, at least seven anti-government protesters were arrested and beaten by Iraqi security forces as hundreds of angry demonstrators gathered Friday in central Baghdad.

Over the weekend in California, about 1,600 inmates continued to take part in a hunger strike protesting conditions in the state prison system’s maximum-security isolation units.

Standard Chartered bank’s South Korean unit said Monday it would temporarily shut dozens of offices due to a strike by workers, which started more than two weeks ago, protesting at attempts to adopt a performance-based pay system.

Tags: Experiments with Truth, Incarceration, Labor, Protests, Sit-ins, Strikes, United States

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