Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 5:12 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran Protests at Salmaniyia Hospital:
Opposition party Al Wafaq demands probe into deaths:
Al Wafaq, Bahrain, Pearl Roundabout Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 4:56 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Iraq, Middle East and Iran 2110 GMT: And now claimed footage of a protest in Damascus in Syria, complaining over the beating of a man by four police officers. A participant claims nearly 1500 people rallied for three hours and chanted, “The Syrian people will not be humiliated,” demanding the immediate release of beaten man with “Let him go! Let him go!” and “There is no God but God.”
2105 GMT: Reports indicate one person was killed and more than two dozen injured in today's clashes in Yemen.
Journalists have been barred from the Al-Naqeeb hospital in Aden in the south of the country, with an estimated 400 guards surrounding the facility.
Video of tonight's anti-regime rally in Aden , just before it was broken up by a pro-Government group:
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 5:45 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 
2055 GMT: EA sources report that Internet service in Bahrain has slowed to a crawl, making it difficult even to send e-mails.
2015 GMT: Reuters report three people were killed and about 30 wounded in Kut in southern Iraq as about 2000 protesters demanding better basic services fought with police and set government buildings on fire.
2010 GMT: Al Jazeera English reports that hundreds of protesters "torched" Libyan police outposts in the eastern city of Al-Bayda (see video at 1745 GMT), while chanting: "People want the end of the regime."
In the southern city of Zentan, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tripoli, hundreds of people marched through the streets and set fire to security headquarters and a police station, then set up tents in the heart of the town
Police reportedly fired tear gas and violently dispersed protesters, arresting 20, in Benghazi. Families of those arrested are reportedly planning to gather outside the city's security directorate to demand their release.
This morning's procession alongside the coffin of a demonstrator killed on Monday, from the gathering to the use of tear gas by police to the continuation of the march (see LiveBlog updates).
Latest Pictures --- Thousands Gather at Pearl Roundabout:
Ali Mahnaima, Bahrain Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 6:15 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 2100 GMT: The Lede at The New York Times has further information on the occupation of Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain, including a picture of the popcorn machine brought in amongst the tents.
Video earlier today from the Roundabout:
2055 GMT: Al Masry Al Youm summarises the continuing protests across Egypt over working conditions, including university workers, police, sugar cane workers, and fishermen.
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 5:16 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 2045 GMT: In Bahrain, eyewitnesses said one protester was killed as police in fired teargas and rubber bullets to break up pro-reform demonstrations. As helicopters circled over Manama, more than 20 people were hurt, one of them critically, in clashes in Shi'ite villages that ring the capital.
The kingdom has a Shi'ite majority but is ruled by a Sunni monarchy.
In the village of Diraz, authorities dispersed protesters with teargas (see video at 1845 GMT) Ten protesters were injured in Nuweidrat by police firing teargas and rubber bullets at demonstrations calling for the release of Shi'ite detainees.
1915 GMT: Suppression of another march in Bahrain:
Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 6:51 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 
2215 GMT: A big MediaFail from The New York Times, which can only see "hundreds of people" in a demonstration in Algiers today. Somehow the newspaper misses the video showing far more than hundreds (the low estimate in other media covering events is 2000), and somehow it misses all the references to protests in other cities such as Oran and Annaba.
1830 GMT: The BBC has posted an interactive photograph of Tahrir Square in Cairo at prayer, allowing the viewer to tour everything from the Wall of Martyrs to the "KFC Clinic".
