Four interior ministry officials and two local security chiefs were cleared of complicity in protesters’ killings.

Rallies against the verdict were also held in Alexandria, Suez and Mansoura.

Correspondents say a verdict that was meant to bring closure for Egypt is in danger of reopening old wounds.

In another development, dozens of protesters stormed the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in the Fayoum area south of Cairo, Egyptian media reported.

Mr Shafiq was Mubarak’s last prime minister.

Verdict ‘mocks us’

Some protesters at Tahrir Square, the focal point of last year’s uprising, say they are determined to begin a sit-in.

The mood in Tahrir Square is extremely gloomy. Some protesters have joined in chants of “illegitimate” in reference to the verdicts delivered earlier.

Others just sit on kerbstones in the darkness quietly reflecting on this critical moment in Egypt’s democratic transition.

One young man, Mohamed Fouad, laments that there has been no reform to the interior ministry as protesters demanded last year. “The first goal of the revolution was the removal of the regime,” he says. “Why are we still fighting it after more than a year?”

As he speaks there is a din of hammering from protesters re-erecting tents in the centre of the roundabout. This could turn into a longer demonstration, heading into the second round of the presidential election later this month.

They have been joined by prominent public figures and football fans known as Ultras, who have been implicated in a number of political confrontations.

The slogan from last year’s uprising: “Down with the military rule” is being chanted in the square and many have vociferously condemned Saturday’s verdict.

The BBC’s Yolande Knell, at the square, says there is particular anger at the acquittals of the officials, which many take as a sign that there has been little reform.

“The Mubarak verdict mocks us. He and [former Interior Minister Habib] Adly got a sentence and their aides got nothing,” protester Sharif Ali told the BBC. “When they return to court on appeal, they will be freed too.”

But, our correspondent adds, others have poured on to the streets out of depression at the current political situation.

The first round of recent presidential elections has left Egyptians with a choice between an Islamist candidate and an ex-prime minister from the Mubarak era.

Scuffles in court

The 84-year-old former president is the first former leader to be tried in person since the start of the Arab Spring in early 2011.

Announcing the verdicts, Judge Ahmed Refaat said Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly had failed to stop security forces using deadly force against unarmed demonstrators. They were both given life terms.

The judge insisted that the 10-month trial had been fair.

He said the Mubarak era had been “30 years of darkness” and praised what he called “the sons of the nation who rose up peacefully for freedom and justice”.

Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were acquitted on separate charges of corruption. But his sons will remain in detention as they are to be charged with stock-market manipulation.

After the verdict, scuffles erupted in court. Outside, sentencing was initially greeted by celebrations, but anger soon took over when news of the acquittals spread.

State television reported that as he was being transferred to jail, Mubarak at first refused to leave the helicopter and then suffered from severe health problems. He has reportedly been admitted to the prison hospital.

Mubarak, who ruled the country from 1981 to 2011, had faced a possible death sentence over the killing of about 850 protesters.

The first leader toppled during the Arab Spring was Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, who was found guilty in absentia of drugs and gun charges in July.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed by rebels in October. Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh received immunity from prosecution after handing over power in November.

Only in Madrid police reported that there were about 45 000 protesters, while organizers claimed that at least a hundred thousand people.

Police disperse thousands of protesters on the streets of Madrid

Several tens of thousands of people in eight cities across Spain gathered on Saturday to protest the poor economic situation in the country. Police reported that only in Madrid there were about 45 000 protesters, while organizers claimed that number is much bigger, around a hundred thousand people. Indignados movement, which is responsible for the protests in Spain and elsewhere in the world, was launched a year ago, so this year’s protest are in some kind marking the first anniversary.

During the demonstration pretesters was shouting slogans: “They say that it is democracy, but it is not.” and the streets of Madrid were blocked as the protesters went to the Puerto de Sol square which they planned to take, but after midnight, police managed to chase them. The protest was guarded by about two thousand policemen.

Indignados Movement was formed as a reaction or riot due to the economic crisis in that country. Remember, the youth unemployment to 25 years in Spain amounts to fifty percent, the highest rate in the eurozone.

Smaller protests were reported in London, Lisbon, Frankfurt and Tel Aviv.

In Cairo, a demonstration is escalating: Unknown assailants attacked the protesters with batons and guns

A few weeks before the presidential election in Egypt, it has come again on Wednesday in the capital Cairo to serious riots. At least eleven people died in clashes between demonstrators and unknown assailants in front of the Defense Ministry were killed. Nine victims were shot dead and two others were stabbed to death, told hospital staff. The Health Ministry confirmed only nine dead and 49 wounded.

Representatives of the security forces said on Wednesday that violence had broken out early in the morning, gunmen attacked as several hundred demonstrators. For many of the demonstrators it was followers of an Islamist politician, who had been excluded from the upcoming presidential election.

The fighting in the streets around the Egyptian Ministry of Defense continued for several hours. Attackers and protesters were, according to the security forces with sticks, stones and fire bombs at each other. Witnesses reported shots. It was not clear initially whether attackers were also among the dead. To whom it was among the attackers was initially also uncertain.

Since last weekend, the state media to blame for several violent confrontations residents who will be angry about the protests in their neighborhood. Critical government activists on the other hand said that the attackers were tolerated by the security forces and some even paid for.

Protest against the exclusion of a candidate

Since last Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated near the Defense Ministry in Cairo for an end to military rule.
He was excluded from the presidential election in three weeks because his mother also has U.S. citizenship. According to Egyptian election law is therefore not possible candidacy. Ismail’s followers are to unconfirmed media reports that firearms in the tent camp of protesters have taken.

Given the escalating violence, a number of presidential candidates and their election campaign initially called for an end to the bloodshed. Some politicians also boycotted a meeting with the ruling military council, which is supposed to be about the formation of a committee to work on a new constitution.

Since the overthrow of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak in February last year, it always comes back to tensions between the military council and protesters calling for a transfer of power to the generals to a civilian government. The military council has the first for the Announced in July.

Pelosi, Obama and others in the elite circle, praise their newly founded artificial grass roots movement.  The gang started by protesting the evil Wall Street.  How dare Wall Street do what they have done since 1792.  The social protesters were taught to believe that Wall Street was the devils that controlled their lives while the real puppeteers of this so called movement were pulling the strings to set their agenda.

May day may day, the squatters are coming. On May first 2012, the Wall Street protesters promised to reek havoc on the fair streets of New York city.  Their earlier protests were not peaceful nor non violent.  Reports of rapes, deification, and mayhem to local dealers were the aim so it would seem.  Today, May First, they promise more of the same at a deeper intensity.  They promised to shut down New York City which would be a shameful act with the economy the way it is.

Some would say, this group has a right to express themselves or to speak in a public place, but as always in a no violent manor which doesn’t seem to be in their mindset. For this President to praise this group is a little weird even for him.  Obama denounced the peaceful Tea Party movement.  His media puppets called the Tea Party racists even though it is a mix of all color.  To compare the Peaceful Tea Party to a radical terrorist group is just unjustified, and their must be a deeper reasoning to do so. 

It must be all about the rich, those evil doers who have paved out a wave of success for themselves and not caring for those who sit back and want everything handed to them. The Occupy Movement are demanding free things such as free tuition, and free, well everything.  This is the mindset that socialists have and they cannot be changed.  The Government that head for a socialist agenda, wishes that kind of mindset for if their goals are met, we are indeed all the same as the end result.  Teach a man to fish concept will be a non entity.  The social government will however give you just enough fish to survive, no more, no less.

Time will tell if the Movement will destroy NYC.  The only thing that will come out of this kind of radical activity will be a bowl movement on America.  Pelosi and Obama should be bowing their heads, only this time it wont be to a Cinese emperor, but it should be in shame.

In central London, Brutal protest against animal testing

Electrodes stuck to her head, she is tied up, shrugs, screams and tries to break away. Then she falls a man with a mask and a white coat a liquid into the eyes.

London – The thing to bear Jacqueline Traide in a shop window in London’s busy Regent Street needs to be played just for luck – but cruel life for many animals in cosmetics development.

In animal experiments to the organization, “Humane Society International” and the cosmetics chain “Lush” make the “human experiment” carefully.

Ten hours before Traide conducted jointly with the performance artist Oliver Cronk, like animals for mascara and make-up to be tortured.

Many passers-by are shocked, take pictures or turn away frightened. Some of them signed a petition against animal testing. They’re already in the EU banned.

But that is not the organizers of the action.

“Even if animal testing for cosmetics has been banned in the EU three years ago, it is still legal in Britain to sell products that have been tested in other parts of the world of animals. These include the United States and Canada. In China, such tests are permissible, “Tamsin Omond, campaign manager said at” Lush “, the” Daily Mail “.

It must stop, that cosmetics manufacturers continue to benefit from animal experiments, said Wendy Higgins, spokesperson for “International Human Social”.

Traide student has high hopes of the project. “I hope the action will be the beginning of a new consciousness of men that they think about what they buy and what is being done to produce it,” she told the “Daily Mail”.

But it also criticized for the provocative human experiment were: the “Cosmetics, Toiletries and Perfumeries Association” (CTPA) complained that the campaign could give the impression that in Europe would still Cosmetics tested on animals. Which is not so.

Naked, bloodied and art on a giant ice floe animal rights activists demonstrate outside the Canadian Embassy against the seal hunt.

Seven animal rights activists have been naked on Tuesday arrested a short time in Vienna’s inner city. According to the Association against Animal Factories (VgT) had 20 activists are “naked and covered in blood on a huge ice floe” placed in front of the embassy to protest the seal hunt. Since some of the police request could not be shown to comply, they were detained until the declaration of identity.

“It was a breach of decorum. Ads are done,” said a police spokeswoman. The protesters, however, were short time later “released”.

Hunting season in Canada

Naturally, animal rights activists disagreed with the “. There is no violation of propriety, to denounce this terrible cruelty Rather, the propriety of marine mammals injured on such a brutal way to kill,” it said in a press release. According to the Canadian ice VgT currently find the slaughter of 400,000 seals instead. Each year, this would roughly three-quarters of newborn seals killed and sold their fur

         I’m going to focus on one event in particular. There is a notable event in which a Vietnamese monk sat himself in the middle of an intersection, and performed a self-immolation in opposition to his overbearing government. He had doused himself in gasoline, had a monk assist light him, and he burned to death on the street.

       “David Halberstam, a reporter for the New York Times covering the war in Vietnam, gave the following account: “I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think…. As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him.”"(Quoted from another site)

       The monk believed that if enough focus and preparation was maintained, he could mentally block any worldly pain that could be inflicted upon him. I myself can’t fully grasp the occurrence, but its commentary of what we refer to as the “human spirit” is remarkable.

He wrote to the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah referring to allegations of assault on four reporters by the police but drew a rude reply. He received a positive response from the chief minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan. Protests were sent also to the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

The nadir was reached on March 2 in Bengaluru. At least 20 media persons and police personnel were injured when they were attacked by, of all persons, lawyers, and that too on the premises of the city’s civil court. They singled out the crew of the electronic media for particular attention. They were assaulted and their expensive cameras and other equipment smashed.

The media’s coverage of the protest staged by lawyers, last January, highlighted the huge traffic gridlock in the nerve centre of the city and the anger voiced by ordinary citizens. The protesters’ lack of any sense of responsibility stood exposed.

This time, on March 2, media personnel, especially from TV, had come in strength to cover the appearance in court of a mining baron G. Janardhan Reddy who faces charges of illegal mining.

Media coverage had contributed a lot to his ouster as minister in the state government. Advocates objected to TV crew and photographers from the print media trying to film Reddy getting out of a car to proceed to court, when all hell broke loose.

The media is not only entitled as of right to cover such events but is bound to do so as a matter of public duty. Photographers, like TV crew, face greater danger. They have to protect expensive cameras as well as their own lives and limbs because a single photograph or TV frame can be more damning than words in cold print.

In the wake of this rash of media attacks, controversy erupted on whether special protective legislation is called for. It is argued by some that an assault on a journalist is no different from an assault on any other citizen. Ergo, no special legislation is called for. The objection is groundless for three good reasons.

First, such a law will itself send out a message to all that the attacks cannot be allowed to persist and will serve as a deterrent to lawbreakers.

Secondly, the Penal Code is studded with provisions which impose greater punishment for offences committed in special circumstances. For example, joining an unlawful assembly while armed with a deadly weapon carries greater punishment than mere membership of an unlawful assembly. There are half a dozen provisions on various kinds of “negligent conduct” affecting public health, each in its own distinctive way. Forgery of court record is treated more seriously than forgery of any other kind.

Which brings us to the last reason which is of a fundamental character. A journalist is attacked because he is discharging a public duty, not for personal reasons. He represents an institution — the Fourth Estate. Constitutions draw a distinction between freedom of speech guaranteed to every citizen and freedom of the press. It is an institutional right available to members of an institution.

There was a time during the Raj, when the Privy Council ruled that the rights of the journalist are no greater than those of any other citizen. So did the US Supreme Court at one time. But it shifted its position gradually. In 1978 it ruled that “the concept of equal access must be accorded more flexibility in order to accommodate the practical distinctions between the press and the general public. When on assignment, a journalist does not tour a jail simply for his own edification. He is there to gather information to be passed on to others, and his mission is protected by the Constitution for very specific reasons”.

In 1980, the principle was extended in yet more explicit terms to reporting of court proceedings. In olden times the public learnt of the proceedings by personal attendance or word of mouth from those who were present in court.

“People now acquire it chiefly through the print and electronic media. In a sense, this validates the media claim of functioning as surrogates for the public. While media representatives enjoy the same right of access as the public, they often are provided special seating and priority of entry so that they may report what people in attendance have seen and heard.”

Once the fundamental principle of the media as surrogates for the public is accepted, objections to special legislation, to protect members of the Fourth Estate and deter attacks on them, fall to the ground.

One such law was moved in the Karnataka Assembly in 1988 but the government fell before it could be enacted as Clause 4 of the bill. It read thus: “Whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly or voluntarily causes hurt, or wrongfully restrains or confines or commits criminal intimidation or threatens to commit any of the said offences with the intention of preventing any journalist or worker in a newspaper or journal from performing his duties or discharging his functions as such or preventing the publication, circulation or distribution of the said newspaper or journal shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to six years or with fine which may extend to Rs 20,000 or with both.” The media must take the lead and promote suitable legislation.

In protest against the violent death of a black youth Trayvon Martin and the investigative work of the local police …

After the fatal shot at an unarmed black youth in the U.S. state of Florida over the weekend have once again thousands of Americans demonstrating for justice and against racism. When the protests in Washington, among others, New York, Chicago and Tampa, many participants dressed in black hooded sweatshirts – similar to that which had carried the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on the day of his death.

Via Facebook and Twitter now millions of people have made ​​their anger and bitterness over Trayvons violent end air. Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president and father of two daughters, who has spoken on Friday as well: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” he said. “When I think of that boy, I think of my own children.”

Protests continue to date

Trayvon was on 26 February in Sanford, a suburb of Orlando, during an evening walk were killed. The 28-year-old shooter George Zimmerman, a white man, who voluntarily conducted security patrols in the residential area and therefore was armed, stated that he had acted in self-defense. He should have thought of the boy in a call to the police shortly before the crime with a racial epithet.

Since the case became known across the U.S., does not break the protests because the authorities do not initially PREVAIL against Zimmerman. They claimed that initial tests are not sufficient evidence of criminal behavior would have provided.

Now, however, on 10 April, a grand jury (indictment chamber) deal with the case and decide whether charges should be imposed for murder. The demonstrators called on the 10th April on the Kapuzentag: Each to Obama should be wearing a hood.

“Bounty” in the amount of $ 10,000

Only in Washington on Saturday called for 2,000 demonstrators “Justice for Trayvon”. They denounced that there continue to be racism in the U.S. – despite the fact that the U.S. would start with Obama, a black president. “You can be killed is still in this country because you’re black,” said protester Bless Davis.

A black separatist group, the New Black Panther Party put out a “bounty” in the amount of $ 10,000 for the “capture” Zimmerman. In Florida, according to media reports, a 68-year-old was arrested, had threatened to become divorced from the Office of Police Chief Sanford to death.

Trayvon Martin was only 17 years old. The teenager from the town of Sanford, Florida, was shot on the way home. In self-defense, claiming the perpetrators – it was unarmed and Trayvon …

Beijing. In protest against Chinese rule over the Tibetans in southwest China two Tibetan monks set fire to himself. After initial misgivings, they were killed, reported Chinese authorities, the two monks would have survived with minor burns. They were in a “stable state”, the official news agency Xinhua quoted the county government of Aba (Aba) in Sichuan Province. The young monks were part of the Kirti monastery on the outskirts of Aba. Since 2009, in the region, five monks doused with gasoline and set on fire. In March and August, two monks were killed in those protests. In response, the Chinese government has sent to exile Tibetan reports new troops to the Tibetan inhabited areas, tightened security measures and hundreds of monks a “patriotic education campaign” subject.

“The recent series of self-immolation witnessed the desperation of the Tibetan people, which grows from the current dismal situation in which they live”, said the exiled Tibetan government in Dharamsala, India. She identified the monks as the 18-year-old Lobsang Kelsang and the 19-year-old Lobsang Kunchok. In their protest they had “Long live the Dalai Lama” and shouted “We want religious freedom in Tibet,” said the exiled Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Dharamsala.

Under the new incident is the Kirti monastery again under strict control of the security forces, it said. It was only in March, with the monk Lobsang Phuntsok was a relative of Kelsang burned the monastery itself. An uncle and a brother were convicted for alleged involvement in the self-immolation, reported the campaign group Free Tibet in a statement from London

The self-immolation was probably a reaction to the increased pressure on the monastic community and the family, said Stephanie Brigden of Free Tibet. She was concerned about the growing sense of hopelessness among some young Tibetans. “The tragic news this point to the fact that some young Tibetans try desperate measures to raise awareness of the situation in Tibet,” said Brigden.

The chairman of the Tibet Initiative Germany (TID), Wolfgang Grader complained, “continued repression by the Chinese authorities.” “Since the riots of 2008 religious freedom through re-education has been increasingly restricted,” said Grader, according to a release. “This systematic suppression of the monasteries in particular makes for despair.”