Word: mohammad
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...Some are already paying a heavy price. In a statement issued from jail and posted in numerous blogs, blogger activist Mohammad Al Sharqawi said police brutally beat and sexually assaulted him when he was arrested leaving a protest last week. "The pain was terrible," Al Sharqawi wrote in the statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi...
...Hanafy Mohammad Abdel Salam, a protester who was beaten in the day's chaos, lamented the situation. "I am 60 years old and retired," Abdel Salam said, his voice breaking. "I have lived 60 years without freedom, and my children, they have smelled only a whiff of freedom." A silent crowd began to gather, listening intently. A few of the plainclothes thugs also closed in, but Abdel Salam ignored them. "I can see that these judges are good people," he said. "We need to stand with them, to let them know that the people are not yet dead, that there...
...Iran's shifting political alliances, Rohani , who was long associated with the reformist government of former President Mohammad Khatami. has often been classified as a "moderate." Ousted as Iran's chief negotiator last year by incoming hardline President Ahmadinejad, he has continued to speak out on nuclear issues, often arguing for a less confrontational line, while hewing to Iran's strategic goal of nuclear development, including the domestic enrichment opposed by the U.S. and its allies...
...King listen to us." Standing next to him is Mohadatta Adhikari, a local Communist politician. He nods vigorously in agreement. He's not worried about himself: he knew the strike was coming, and stocked up on a month's worth of food. Standing nearby and watching without a word, Mohammad Farooq, a construction worker, suddenly blurts out in bitterness, once the protestors have gone away. "Look here, if the construction workers and the poor of Nepal were asked, they would want this strike to end right this moment," he says. "The local politicians have food stocked up; we are poor...
...fighting continues - and spreads. Earlier this year, Libya brokered a non-belligerence pact between Chad and Sudan. But soon after the leader of the Chadian rebels, Mohammad Nour, 35, told TIME it "is not serious" Sitting on the outskirts of a camp along the Chad-Sudan border under the shade of a mango tree he contemplated his next move. "I?m not going to be under these trees much longer," he said...