Saturday
Mar122011
Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Is the Noose Tightening Around Qaddafi?
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 12:59 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
2210 GMT: In Egypt, actor and activist Aly Sobhy, whose detention we noted earlier today (see 1430 GMT), has been released.
Sobhy was seized by the military on Wednesday as he tried to get the names of protesters who had been detained in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
2130 GMT: Another video of today's mass pro-democracy march to Safriya Palace in Bahrain:
2020 GMT: Al Jazeera cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, has been killed after a crew of the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by regime forces near the town of Benghazi.
Reporter Nasser Al Haddar was also injured by a gunshot.