This video from the USA is called Making a Guy Fawkes mask mould – again – this time a little better.
This video from the USA is called Making a Guy Fawkes Mask – Part 3 – Occupy Art – Occupy your Heart.
After the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain …
From daily The Independent in Britain:
Anti-protest: Bahrain bans import of plastic Guy Fawkes masks
By Samuel Muston
Monday 25 February 2013
The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Industry and Commerce Minister, Hassan Fakhro, issued an unusual decree this week: he banned the importation of a plastic face mask. Anyone caught importing the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask now faces arrest, as anti-government protesters in the country have been using them to stay anonymous.
The stylised visage of Guy Fawkes became popular among protesters after the 2005 Hollywood film depicted thousands marching on Parliament wearing them.
Yet, while it has became an icon for protesters from members of the Occupy Wall Street movement to London demonstrators taking on the Church of Scientology, it has also been a key part of protests in the Arab Spring and Middle Eastern protests that have continued since the heady days of 2011.
Sadly, though, it is but a mask. And the thing about a masks is, you can print them, paint them or draw them yourself. Unless the minister plans to ban all such activity it seems an action as futile as the real Guy Fawkes’s.
Protests were held in opposition-heavy villages across Bahrain on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded that the government release the body of a 20-year-old who died last week from injuries sustained during earlier clashes with police: here.
Bahrain: Activists in Hiding as Crisis Continues: here.
Outrage in Bahrain at video of car running over protester: here.
Manama: A masked teenager who was hit by a car as he attempted to block a road with tyres to be set ablaze has been admitted to Bahrain’s main hospital after his family initially hesitated to seek medical treatment fearing punitive action by the authorities: here.
Gulf states accused of co-ordinated crackdown on dissent: here.
German military exports to Persian Gulf nations doubled in 2012 amid repeatedly-voiced international concerns over gross human rights violations in the region. The German government has been fiercely accused of unscrupulousness in arms sales: here.
Gulf Air, the Bahrain-based carrier, is undertaking drastic measures to restructure operations and cut jobs to revive competitiveness. The company’s plan to lay-off about 15 per cent of it’s staff and close four more routes in January have annoyed the union which represents airline staff: here.
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Dubai officials block Bahrain-based AP journalist
Associated Press – 16 hrs ago
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two Bahrain-based journalists, including a reporter for The Associated Press, were blocked from entering the United Arab Emirates on Monday under apparent new restrictions by Gulf Arab states.
Reem Khalifa and her husband, Mansoor al-Jamri, chief editor for Bahrain’s independent Al Wasat newspaper, said they were told by authorities at Dubai International Airport that they were on a list to deny entry.
No further explanations were immediately given, but it appears part of tighter coordination between Gulf allies to control and monitor journalists, activists and others in the region.
Like all Gulf partners, the UAE has expanded crackdowns on perceived political dissent since the Arab Spring, including charging 94 people last month with conspiring to overthrow the ruling system. But it still remains among the most open countries in the Gulf for journalists, researchers and scholars.
Bahrain’s 2-year-old uprising is a critical issue for Gulf leaders, who want to safeguard the ruling families across the region.
Khalifa and her husband — on a private visit to Dubai — closely cover Bahrain’s struggles between majority Shiites and the Sunni rulers in the strategic kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.
Khalifa had visited Dubai last year without incident. Al-Jamri was among the winners in 2011 of the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
A senior UAE official said airport immigration issues fall under Dubai police, which had no immediate comment. Bahrainis and other citizens from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council — as well as many Western passport holders — can enter the UAE without a pre-arranged visa.
Bahrain, however, has imposed a special journalist visa that has sharply limited outside media access to the country.
Last week, the UAE also denied entry to a prominent academic from the London School of Economics who was scheduled to speak about Bahrain at a conference on the Arab Spring.
The UAE’s Foreign Ministry said Monday that Kristian Coates Ulrichsen was not allowed into the country because his work has been critical of Bahrain’s monarchy, which is closely backed by other Gulf leaders. The UAE said “non-constructive” views on Bahrain are unwelcome.
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Bahrain court jails woman activist for three months: agency
Reuters – Fri, Mar 1, 2013
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Bahraini rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja has been sentenced to three months in jail for insulting a public employee after an appeal court overturned her earlier acquittal, Bahrain’s state news agency said on Friday.
The kingdom, base for the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has been in political turmoil since protests erupted there in 2011, led by majority Shi’ite Muslims demanding an end to the Sunni monarchy’s political domination and full powers for parliament.
Khawaja is the daughter of prominent Shi’ite Muslim human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who was a leading figure in the 2011 uprising and who is now serving a life sentence.
“The Court of Appeal has today overturned an initial verdict acquitting Zainab al-Khawaja and sentenced her to three months in jail,” BNA said, citing Amina Isa, a chief prosecutor.
Bahrain’s public prosecutor had charged Khawaja with “insulting a public employee while on duty”, BNA said.
The appeals court has previously sentenced Khawaja to one one-month and one two-month jail term in two other cases for entering a prohibited military zone and damaging state-owned property, the state news agency said.
The government says 35 people died during the unrest in 2011 and two months of martial law that followed, although the opposition puts the toll at more than 80.
This month violence has surged as protesters marked the second anniversary of the uprising on February 14. One protester and a policeman died in clashes between crowds and security forces.
According to the opposition, a second protester died last week. The government said at the time it was investigating and that there was no evidence police were involved.
The violence has clouded the atmosphere around talks begun on February 10 between the mostly Shi’ite opposition and the Sunni Muslim-dominated government to find a way out of the impasse over Shi’ite demands for more democracy.
(Reporting by Raissa Kasolowsky; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
See also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21628074
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