| Zimbabwe activists fined for watching Arab Spring videos CNN Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) — A judge fined six Zimbabwean human rights activists $500 each on Wednesday for watching footage of the Arab Spring protests and threatened to send them to prison for 10 months if they fail to pay up by Monday. |
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| Will Another Arab Spring Doom Middle East ETFs? (EIS, EGPT, GULF) MarketWatch This year it could easily be Syria, Qatar and other Middle East countries that bring about a sequel to 2011’s Arab Spring. In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has been fighting a seemingly uphill battle to keep his oppressive regime in charge. |
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| Six Sentenced for Watching Arab Spring Video AllAfrica.com The government of Zimbabwe should drop all charges against six civil society activists convicted for watching a video of Arab Spring protests in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. The six, who alleged they were tortured to confess to planning … |
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| Zimbabwean Activists Sentenced for Arab-Uprising Forum New York Times JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Six Zimbabwean activists who had been arrested and charged with treason for watching news videos of the Arab Spring uprising were fined $500 and ordered to perform 420 hours of community service. The prosecutor in the case … |
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| Christians in Egypt tread carefully after hope turns to fear following Arab Spring Fox News A little more than a year ago, as the Arab Spring swept through North Africa, people in the region began experiencing a taste of freedom. That was certainly true in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, where Egyptian Muslims and Christians celebrated the … |
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| Zimbabwe activists who watched arab spring video convicted of ‘Treason’ Amsterdam News 20 (GIN) – Six human rights activists are facing long sentences following their conviction for the crime of watching a video of Egypt’s “Arab Spring” uprising. The six were initially charged with treason for looking at video footage of the Egyptian and … |
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| Zimbabwe activists sentenced in Arab Spring video trial GlobalPost Munyaradzi Gwisai, a University of Zimbabwe lecturer and former member of parliament, and five other people were found guilty March 19, 2012, of conspiracy to incite public violence for last year watching videos of the Arab Spring uprisings. |
