Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond) Video: Filming Protest and Violence

The latest footage to come out of Libya, Bahrain, and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa: see also Libya Video: A Bloody "Day of Rage" and Bahrain Video: The Attack on Pearl Roundabout.

Yemen: Protests in Aden today

After the Shootings: Protests at the Hospital in Bahrain:

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Libya, Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Confrontations

2213 GMT: AFP, from local sources, estimates at least 41 people have lost their lives in Libya in violence since Tuesday.

Oea, a newspaper linked to Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif Al Islam, says demonstrators hung two state security officers in Al-Bayda.

2210 GMT: Britain Foreign Office has announced that some arms export authorisations for Bahrain and Libya are being revoked out of concern the weapons could be used to suppress internal unrest.

The Foreign Office said it was still reviewing export licenses for Yemen.

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Bahrain, Libya, and All the Way to Syria: Summarising Thursday's Day of Rage

Opposition in Libya had called a "Day of Rage" for Thursday, but even before they could take to the streets, that rage was being claimed by a regime in a different country.

The surprise attack by Bahrain's police upon the opposition camp at the Pearl Roundabout in the capital of Manama killed at least four people, but even that death toll does not begin to capture the violence of the day. As the monarchy moved the Army in force into Manama, its security services prevented treatment the hundreds of wounded, to the point of inflicting a savage beating on a prominent doctor. Journalists were blocked at Manama's airport, leaving those who were already in the country --- Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times was especially prominent in reporting via social media as well as reporting for his newspaper --- to try and get out an account that took in the scope of the brutality.

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The Latest from Iran (18 February): Another Regime Show

2210 GMT: Khabar Online reports on the slogans against Hashemi Rafsanjani in today's pro-government rally in Tehran. They included: 

Master of cunning, Akbar Rafsanjani

Akbar R., Iranian Mubarak

Aghazadeh [Mehdi Hashemi?], your father has gone to the dogs

Be ashamed, quit bargaining

Hashemi, Where is you honour, Faezeh [Raffers daughter], where is your chastity?

2200 GMT: Here are pictures from the government-sponsored 'anti-sedition' rally held in Tehran today. The first image shows protesters getting handed signs. 

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Iran Analysis: The Opposition Responds to The Regime's Hatred Rally

The call for the marches of 1 Esfand may not bring public success. Indeed, the regime's trump card --- even if it cannot repress the Green movement out of existence --- is that it can make coverage of the opposition marches so difficult that an approximate measurement of what has occurred is difficult. In particular, the reaction of the Iranian population, beyond those dedicated to either a pro-regime or anti-regime path, is hard to guage. And, as Mr Tehrani evaluated this week, the opposition faces difficult questions over its methods and aim beydon the short-term.

 However, for the first time since February 2010, the regime does not have the public arena all to itself. That could be a small but significant shift in the political contest. 

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Latest Libya Video: A Bloody "Day of Rage"

Claimed footage of demonstration in Tripoli tonight:

Demonstration in Benghazi tonight. (Another very graphic video shows people carrying the body of a slain protester):

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EA on the Road: Lost in Northwest Britain

I'm on a top-secret mission in northwest Britain today. But EA will keep you up-to-date amidst the developments from Bahrain to Libya to Iran.

Ali Yenidunya is taking the lead on the Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog while James Miller and Josh Shahryar will be keeping eyes open on the Iran LiveBlog. And we also have the Live Feed from Al Jazeera English for any breaking news.

As always, we will be grateful to readers for bringing in news and insight.

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The Latest from Iran (17 February): Cutting Off the Opposition

2145 GMT: Political Prisoner Watch. Abolfazl Tabarzadi, a close relative of the Iran Democratic Front leader Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, has been freed on bail.

Tabarzadi was detained last December.

2135 GMT: 1 Esfand. Already the posters for Sunday's opposition march, agreed between a coalition of groups this afternoon, are appearing. This one links the rally to Mohammad Mokhtari and Sanee Zhaleh, the two men who died in the 25 Bahman marches on Monday:

2120 GMT: Rafsanjani Watch. Yesterday I noted the statement of the Assembly of Experts, chaired by former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, denouncing the US/Israel-backed "counter-revolution" of Monday's opposition marches.

This morning (0730 GMT) I wrote that regime supporters in Qom had chanted for the death of Rafsanjani.

So how could those two events fit together?

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Protests at Salmaniyia Hospital:

Opposition party Al Wafaq demands probe into deaths:

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Bahrain (and Beyond) LiveBlog: The Regime Attacks

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:

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