Two weeks before the anniversary of the revolution, on the day he was standing for election to the new parliament, Tarek Khoury, a member of the April 6 Youth Movement that initially drove last year's demonstrations, found himself called into a Cairo courthouse for questioning and baselessly accused of promoting violence against the police and military at demonstrations in October and November.
Abukar Awale, who organised the demonstration, is himself a former khat addict.
In 1992, a military strongman's attempt to suppress student demonstrations and install himself as prime minister prompted a vigorous campaign for political reform.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped head off what could have been a political cataclysm by calling Gen. Pervez Musharraf at 2 a.m. in Pakistan on Thursday and talking him out of seizing new powers to suspend Parliament, hamstring the courts, curb street demonstrations and guarantee himself a new presidential term.
The councilman — arrested in 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in Lower Manhattan — found himself pleading with protesters to calm the tone.
After six months of demonstrations, Mr Ravalomanana declared himself president and set up a new government.Leaders at this week's African Union summit in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, ever anxious about threats to their own legitimacy, roundly condemned Mr Rajoelina's attempted putsch.
They are also calling for an immediate halt to the transformation of state-run hospitals into joint-stock companies, a process kicked off by Mikuláš Dzurinda, a previous Slovak prime minister (and current foreign minister), who himself faced demonstrations in 2006.The doctors' demands have been endorsed by unions across Visegrád and wider Europe.
Galileo considered it "probable that this method is the same that Archimedes followed, since, besides being very accurate, it is based on demonstrations found by Archimedes himself".
The contemporary "human uprights" (to borrow a dog trainer's term) Orlean tracks down are no less odd, like the Peruvian man she meets at a dog agility demonstration who considers himself a reincarnated German shepherd, or Daphne Hereford, a Texas breeder who owns many of Rin Tin Tin's descendants as well as many Rin Tin Tin trademarks, and announces, "I am Rin Tin Tin".
Orbán supported the resulting protests at first but distanced himself when the demonstrations turned violent.
