Syria, Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Another Centre of Protest?

2045 GMT: The opposition party Wefaq has issued a statement that security forces arrived at two medical centers, Ibn Sina and al-Razi, and seized an unknown number of people.

"They detained doctors, nurses and other staff and brought them to an unknown location. We are worried what happened to them," said Wefaq politician Mattar Ibrahim Mattar. "I cannot reach by phone my brother who works in Razi."

An activist who works for the government said he saw more than a dozen members of the security forces surrounding al-Razi medical center while arrests were made inside.

2025 GMT: The New York Times reports, from witnesses and a doctor, that security forces fired on a demonstration in the central city of Taiz on Tuesday, killing one protester and wounding two others. In the capital Sanaa, another protester died in a clash with security forces and plainclothes regime supporters.

Another newspaper said three people had died in Taiz (see 1130 GMT).

On the political front, the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council met regime officials in Abu Dhabi. On Sunday, the GCC met opposition representatives.

2015 GMT: Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague has said the UK will send a team of experienced military officers to Libya to support and advise the opposition National Transitional Council.

Hague said the military advisors will join a group of British diplomats already co-operating with the NTC in Benghazi: "They will advise the National Transitional Council on how to improve their military organisational structures, communications and logistics, including how best to distribute humanitarian aid and deliver medical assistance."

The Foreign Office said the team would not train or arm insurgents. It was reported last week that a small British liaison team was already working with the opposition military.

2000 GMT: Back from a break to find that prosecutors have questioned Omar Suleiman, the former Egyptian Vice-President, about violence against protesters during the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Suleimanwas questioned about "information held by the intelligence services on the events of the January 25 revolution" and "the killing of protesters during peaceful protests and over the wealth of the former president and his family".

Meanwhile, a government fact-finding mission announced that at least 846 Egyptians died in uprising between 25 January and 11 February, when Mubarak fell from power.

1620 GMT: Mareb Press is reporting the deaths of three protesters in Sanaa in Yemen today.

1530 GMT: Children demonstrate as they leave school in Daraa in southern Syria:

1510 GMT: The latest from Syria....

According to Syrian state TV, in addition to the lifting of the 1963 Emergency Law, the regime has abolished the state security court, which handled the trials of political prisoners, and it has approved a new law allowing the right to peaceful protests.

However, permission to protest is subject to a permit from the Minister of Interior, which issued an official statement released telling Syrians not to take part in protest rallies, demonstrations, or sit-ins under any pretext.

Syrian state media, countering reports of the slaying of protesters by security forces, has claimed that three Army officers and three children were killed "by armed criminal gangs" in Homs. The victims' bodies were "mutilated".

1345 GMT: Syrian State TV is reporting that the 1963 Emergency Law has been lifted by the regime.

1135 GMT: Video of Tahrir (Liberty) Square in Homs, hours before security forces used gunfire to disperse a sit-in by thousands of protesters (see 0500 GMT):

1130 GMT: Claimed video of security forces firing at student protesters in Taiz in Yemen today:

0825 GMT: Yemen's state news agency SABA claims from a "security source" that at least 14 soldiers were injured in "riots" by thousands of demonstrators, in an illegal march of the opposition Joint Meeting Parties, in the capital Sana’a on Sunday.

0700 GMT: At least 90 people have been wounded in a second consecutive day of clashes between protesters and security forces in Sulaimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to police and medical sources.

The forces fired shots and used tear gas to disperse protesters, wounding 29, while 61 policemen were injured by stones and other objects hurled at them.

At least 35 people were hurt a day earlier in Sulaimaniya, the hub of protests in Kurdistan since February.

A Kurdish legislators said dozens of students tried to rally near a university but were attacked by security forces in the region's capital Erbil.

0600 GMT: Members of Yemen's ruling party, including three former ministers, have formed a new bloc to support protests against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The new party, the Justice and Development Bloc, includes former ministers for tourism, human rights and transport and a number of members of Parliament.

"We support the youthful revolution and we are with it," the JDB's nominal leader, Mohammed Abu Lahoum. said. "The issue is not the split from the ruling party but the difference in views."

0535 GMT: The chairman of the Libyan opposition's National Transitional Council, Mustafa Mohamed Abdul Jalil, met the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on Monday.

No details were given of the talks. Qatar has recognised the NTC as the sole representative of the Libyan people and has provided military equipment to the insurgents.

The Emirate has also succeeded, through the state-owned Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Company (Tasweeq), in delivering four shipments of petroleum products to the Libyan port of Benghazi and in exporting two oil shipments out of Tobruk. The opposition's exports are now suspended after regime forces damaged oil facilities.

0500 GMT: In Syria, there is a possible escalation in the protests against the Assad regime, with thousands of people in Homs, the country's third-largest city, announcing they would establish a sit-in in the main square until Assad stepped down. 

Al Jazeera English reports that security forces cleared Clock Square with gunfire, injuring at least two people. Protesters had been given until 2:30 a.m. local time to leave, but the assault of the security forces began 15 minutes before the deadline.

Claimed footage of the shooting --- there is also a video of an injured man being taken away from the scene :

Meanwhile, from the coastal city of Baniyas, two more striking images of protest --- a man "erases" the history of the Assad regime by painting over graffiti, and a crowd eject a television crew from Syrian state television: