At least 200 people have been killed by Syrian security forces or plain-clothes police since the start of the protest movement, according to Amnesty.

nickturse:

An interview with Bahraini human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja.

Security forces fired tear gas and beat protesters with batons Friday as tens of thousands of people marched toward the Syrian capital.

msnbc:

Today in Libya: Air strikes continue, and Gadhafi’s daughter, Aisha, conveyed a defiant message: “We are a people that cannot be defeated,” she told a cheering crowd.

Photo: AFP via Al Jaz

futurejournalismproject:

The Guardian reports how citizens are using video streaming to communicate with one another across Syria:

On the laptop screen is the pixelated image of a man holding an olive branch in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, which he is using as a video camera to stream, via the social media programme Qik, live images of tens of thousands of protesters in [the Mediterranean port city of] Banias directly into Nakhle’s laptop, ready for uploading to YouTube.

Over a faltering digital connection, Nakhle tells his colleague in Banias about the deaths in [southwestern city of] Deraa. The message is relayed to a protester with a megaphone, who broadcasts it to the masses. Ten minutes later the reaction comes in: “OK, now we can hear chanting in Banias, ‘With our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice to you Deraa.’ And they are in Banias, a different side of the country!”…

… Foreign media have been all but barred from reporting from Syria and dozens of local and Arab journalists have been arrested or expelled. In their place, Syria’s cyber activists are using social media and technology to ensure reporting gets out, linking the protesters on the street with the eyes and ears of the world.

Egypt’s public prosecutor decided to transfer Mubarak to a military hospital, where he will remain under guard pending interrogation.

Thousands of people took to the streets after Friday prayers chanting ‘freedom’ in Syria’s cities of Deraa, Banias and Deir al-Zor, Reuters said.

Around one million protesters gathered in the Yemeni city of Taiz to demand that President Saleh be tried.

Gaddafi forces fired a hail of rockets into the besieged city of Misrata, killing at least eight people, a local doctor told Al-Jazeera.

A demonstration demanding political freedoms erupted on the campus of the main university in Syria’s second city Aleppo, news agencies say.