Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi After Egypt and Tunisia, multiply the protests in many other Islamic nations. From Libya to Yemen, from Algeria to Iran, the squares are filled with opponents of the regimes. Meanwhile, are becoming more insistent talk of the death of former President of Tunisia. A number of unverified sources that circulate on the internet report that Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali would have died at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and would be negotiating for burial in Tunisia.
Ben Ali, for two days in a coma, had fled abroad on Jan. 14, after a popular revolt that ended his 23 years of power in the North African country. Libya. It 's always more on fire east of the country also Wednesday Benghazi, Al Baida and beyond, towards the border with Egypt, were the scene of new events and new unrest despite the iron-fisted leader Muammar Gaddafi who, through the "Revolutionary Committees and the people," he threatened the "splinter groups" anti-government repression "devastating." According to Amnesty International, over the last three days at least 46 people have been killed by Libyan security forces during anti-regime demonstrations as Human Rights Watch speaks of even 84 deaths.
Most of the victims were registered just in Benghazi and Al Baida, says the humanitarian organization, denounced the behavior "reckless" by the authorities. In Benghazi, the second city in the country has always been rebellious, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and some of them have occupied the airport to prevent the arrival of reinforcements.
The BBC has this evening announced that the airport was closed. In some areas of the city was suspended the delivery of electricity. To clip the wings of technological protest, Facebook last night had been rendered inaccessible and surfing made more difficult. Even the telephone all day yesterday were demanding.
Two policemen were hanged by the protesters in Al Baida (third largest city) while the radio station in Benghazi was burned. Security forces have since been ordered to withdraw from the center of the two places, ostensibly "to avoid further clashes with the protesters and other victims." But at the same time we have moved away, taking control of all access roads, and to prevent those who have participated in the riots to get away and to block any civilians or fighters wishing to join the square.
In the evening the site of an online newspaper close to the reformist son of Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam had admitted 20 people were killed and seven in Benghazi to Derna, where the funeral yesterday were the victims of Thursday. In Tripoli, however, all day life went on quite normally. Gaddafi showed up in the city center in Green Square, where he was greeted with enthusiasm by his supporters.
He did not speak but talked about the revolutionary committees: a response "violent and lightning" will strike - have said - the "adventurers" who protest, and any attempt to "overcome the limits" to become "suicide." Bahrain. The opposition rejects the offer of negotiations made by the Crown Prince in the morning and take over the riots.
Algeria. In Algiers a massive deployment of police try to prevent the demonstrators to gather in the central square for a May Day anti-government demonstration. A thousand demonstrators are loaded by the agents when they tried to approach. Even in Djibouti, a small African country at the mouth of the Red Sea, this morning the resumption of clashes between police and opposition protesters.
Yemen. One student was killed in clashes around the University of Sanaa between opponents and supporters of the president. Five injured. According to the Arabic television al-Jazeera is the most violent clashes in the last nine days in the Yemeni capital. The U.S. position. In a phone call to King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, the American president, Barack Obama has "condemned the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators, and strongly urged the government" of the small emirate in the Gulf "to show restraint ".
"From a long-standing ally of Bahrain," said a note from the White House, "the U.S. view that the country's stability depends on respect for universal rights and reforms that respond to the aspirations of all citizens." Bahrain hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet and is a strategic ally of America in the Gulf.
In another statement released on the sidelines of a visit in Oregon, Obama said he was "deeply concerned" by reports of violence in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya. "The U.S.," said the American president, "condemning the use of violence by governments against peaceful protesters in this country or wherever it may happen." The governments of three countries being asked to "show restraint in responding to peaceful protests and to respect the rights of their peoples." 
Ben Ali, for two days in a coma, had fled abroad on Jan. 14, after a popular revolt that ended his 23 years of power in the North African country. Libya. It 's always more on fire east of the country also Wednesday Benghazi, Al Baida and beyond, towards the border with Egypt, were the scene of new events and new unrest despite the iron-fisted leader Muammar Gaddafi who, through the "Revolutionary Committees and the people," he threatened the "splinter groups" anti-government repression "devastating." According to Amnesty International, over the last three days at least 46 people have been killed by Libyan security forces during anti-regime demonstrations as Human Rights Watch speaks of even 84 deaths.
Most of the victims were registered just in Benghazi and Al Baida, says the humanitarian organization, denounced the behavior "reckless" by the authorities. In Benghazi, the second city in the country has always been rebellious, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and some of them have occupied the airport to prevent the arrival of reinforcements.
The BBC has this evening announced that the airport was closed. In some areas of the city was suspended the delivery of electricity. To clip the wings of technological protest, Facebook last night had been rendered inaccessible and surfing made more difficult. Even the telephone all day yesterday were demanding.
Two policemen were hanged by the protesters in Al Baida (third largest city) while the radio station in Benghazi was burned. Security forces have since been ordered to withdraw from the center of the two places, ostensibly "to avoid further clashes with the protesters and other victims." But at the same time we have moved away, taking control of all access roads, and to prevent those who have participated in the riots to get away and to block any civilians or fighters wishing to join the square.
In the evening the site of an online newspaper close to the reformist son of Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam had admitted 20 people were killed and seven in Benghazi to Derna, where the funeral yesterday were the victims of Thursday. In Tripoli, however, all day life went on quite normally. Gaddafi showed up in the city center in Green Square, where he was greeted with enthusiasm by his supporters.
He did not speak but talked about the revolutionary committees: a response "violent and lightning" will strike - have said - the "adventurers" who protest, and any attempt to "overcome the limits" to become "suicide." Bahrain. The opposition rejects the offer of negotiations made by the Crown Prince in the morning and take over the riots.
Algeria. In Algiers a massive deployment of police try to prevent the demonstrators to gather in the central square for a May Day anti-government demonstration. A thousand demonstrators are loaded by the agents when they tried to approach. Even in Djibouti, a small African country at the mouth of the Red Sea, this morning the resumption of clashes between police and opposition protesters.
Yemen. One student was killed in clashes around the University of Sanaa between opponents and supporters of the president. Five injured. According to the Arabic television al-Jazeera is the most violent clashes in the last nine days in the Yemeni capital. The U.S. position. In a phone call to King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, the American president, Barack Obama has "condemned the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators, and strongly urged the government" of the small emirate in the Gulf "to show restraint ".
"From a long-standing ally of Bahrain," said a note from the White House, "the U.S. view that the country's stability depends on respect for universal rights and reforms that respond to the aspirations of all citizens." Bahrain hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet and is a strategic ally of America in the Gulf.
In another statement released on the sidelines of a visit in Oregon, Obama said he was "deeply concerned" by reports of violence in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya. "The U.S.," said the American president, "condemning the use of violence by governments against peaceful protesters in this country or wherever it may happen." The governments of three countries being asked to "show restraint in responding to peaceful protests and to respect the rights of their peoples."
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