Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Arab world to date

Riot police units used force to suppress a concentration of hundreds of students from all over the Algerian territory to the Ministry of Higher Education in Algiers, to demand the repeal of a presidential decree that reorganized the higher education qualification. "We stay here until we achieve success for our struggle.

The beats are not going to with us. We will fight until the end, "one protester said the newspaper" El Watan ". The situation was complicated in Iraqi Kurdistan, the safest area in Iraq, where one second teenager has died in protests since last Thursday called for in Sulaimaniyah political reforms and an end to corruption.

At least one protester was killed and 40 others wounded by Kurdish police firing when dissolved a protest, according to medical sources, which revealed that the victim was a 17 year old boy who died from gunshot wounds. One protester was killed in Bahrain as a result of injuries caused by shots fired on Friday by the Army near Lulu Plaza, in downtown Manama.

A group of five hundred protesters tried to take back this seat, which had been evicted by police a day earlier in a crash in which he died, however, another protester and injured dozens, with what is already there are seven killed since the beginning of the protests against the regime in Bahrain, on 14 February.

New less intense altercations splashed several Moroccan cities, after it became known that five people were killed in Al Hoceima and over 120 were injured in riots after pro-democracy protests. In his first public speech after the protests, King Mohamed VI of Morocco referred to the demonstrations, but said he was "committed to structural reforms" in a speech on the occasion of the appointment of Economic and Social Council of the country .

The cities of Tangier, Tetouan, Larache and Al Hoceima (north), Sefrou (Centro), Marrakech and Guelmim (South) were the scene of major damage, during which injured a total of 128 people (of which 115 belonged to security forces) and 120 were arrested. The outlawed Islamist group Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force in Egypt, announced the creation of a political party, "Freedom and Justice", in a statement from the office of their spiritual leader, Mohamed Badia.

The note explains that in the coming days will be the managing body of the party and take the necessary legal steps for its implementation. In the text, Badia explained that the constitution of this party occurs by virtue of decisions taken long ago by the "Advisory Board", the highest legislative organ of the Islamist organization.

Badia added that "the party will be formed to fulfill the hopes and desires of the Egyptian people in order to achieve a better future for Egypt to regain its role and leadership position." Outlawed since 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood is the largest and best organized opposition group in Egypt.

Were tolerated during the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, but also the subject of numerous campaigns of arrests. One of its leaders said in Brussels last week that if his group won elections eventually impose Islamic or Sharia law in Egypt.

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