Press Review of the week

March 28th 2011

While authorities crack down on protesters, the death toll has risen. Even doctors who were helping people were beaten. As said the Arabian Business, some physicians are scared to return to work “for fear of being arrested or harassed after treating wounded protesters“.

While Western operation continued in Libya, crackdown on protesters in Bahrain backed by Saudi troops without raising any concerns among media. Owing to Georges Malbrunot in the Figaro, shiite opposition had gone too far and missed a golden opportunity. Authorities censor Internet in order to avoid scenario like in Egypt or Tunisia. Crackdowns raise the death toll to at least 5 and thousand of wounded.

Social unrest spreads among Syria for the first time: Alain Gresh gives us this morning his own analysis. Crackdown is very harsh: in Deraa, in the South of Damascus,  after the funeral of two people killed by the police, Ibtissam Massalmeh, a young women, and Ali Ghoudab el-Mahamid, a doctor, the security forces fired on the crowd.  A heavy toll: 12 dead. NowLebanon shows a video of protesters beaten in Aleppo mosque.

More than 200 people attended to the funeral yesterday of the first dead in Jordan , Khairy Jamil Saad, a 55 years old man, who has come with his son. During the dismantling of the “March24 Protest” camp in Amman by the police , 160 people were injured.

Thousands Protest in Syria After Gov’t Forces Kill Scores of Demonstrators

Whereas media are turning a deaf ear to harshest crackdowns in Arab countries, Western military operations reveal that their are definitely economical choices. Albeit Human Rights and peaceful protesters lifes are in danger.