Syria, Bahrain (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Deadline for a Cease-Fire
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 11:41Analysts on Al Jazeera English's Inside Story discuss whether a peace plan can succeed in Syria
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2005 GMT: A significant update from Bahraini photojournalist Mazen Mahdi:
opposition groups call-off Friday 3pm rally and call on supporters to take part in funeral of citizen journalist Ahmed Ismail #Bahrain
— Mazen Mahdi (@MazenMahdi) April 12, 2012
The family of Ahmad Ismail Hassan, the citizen journalist killed two weeks ago as he filmed protests on Salmabad --- allegedly by a regime operative firing from a Land Cruiser --- had refused to accept the body from the hospital because "shooting" was not put as cause of death on the certificate.
Now that the family has taken Ismail Hassan for burial, the march promises to be one of the largest in recent months on the island.
1945 GMT: The Local Co-ordination Committees of Syria have issued a clarification about today's claimed death toll of 37:
The Local Coordination Committees would like to note that the martyrs of Deir Baalba's Massacre [in a section of Homs] that was discovered today have actually fallen on the 8th of April, 2012; and it was until today that their bodies were discovered.
This happened because of the heavy presence of the army and the lack of communications in the city during the last week. Therefore, the number of martyrs who were killed today...is 22 martyrs, distributed as follows: 9 martyrs in Homs, 6 in Idlib, 5 in Damascus Suburbs and 2 martyrs in Aleppo.
An evening demonstration in Hama: