Protests continue around the world
Thursday April 11, 2002
The Guardian
United States 79 pro-Palestinian protesters, mainly students,
arrested during a demonstration by 1,000 supporters from both
sides at the University of California, Berkeley.
Egypt Cultural centre run by the US embassy closed in
Alexandria after clashes during an 8,000-strong demonstration
left a student dead and about 100 hurt. Altogether, 24,000
people protested at universities across the country.
Saudi Arabia Despite a ban on public protests, thousands of
Saudis vented anger at impromptu rallies under police
supervision.
Bahrain Scores of protesters were injured in clashes with police
as hundreds of students attempted to march on the US
embassy.
Lebanon 5,000 Lebanese and Palestinian women
demonstrated near the US embassy in Beirut. Protest was led
by Leila Khaled, a 57-year-old Palestinian woman who hijacked
two planes in 1969 and 1970 to highlight the plight of her people.
Syria Hundreds of Syrian and Palestinian women protested in
Damascus.
Jordan At least 410 protests, many of them violent, have
erupted across the country in the past 11 days. Protesters
vandalised shops, traffic lights, public phone booths, banks,
police stations and destroyed or set alight at least 225 vehicles,
the government said.
Greece Several thousand demonstrators attended an open-air
concert in Athens to condemn Israeli military attacks.
France An unknown attacker hurled a petrol bomb at a
synagogue in Garges-les-Gonesse, 10 km (six miles) northeast
of Paris. No one was hurt.
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