There were scattered gatherings of demonstrators today, despite intermittent heavy rain, and early this evening police arrested about 40 people who had been riding bicycles through downtown Washington chanting slogans like "No more blood for oil".
Last week, when a thuggish gathering of Republican demonstrators tried to shut down the hand-recount operations in Miami-Dade County, it turned out that key DeLay operatives were right there.
The former deputy speaker, Renáta Zmajkovicova, led the hospital's supervisory board.The protests had an unusually personal tone; they began with hundreds of demonstrators gathering outside Mr Paska's house, in the eastern city of Kosice.
The nationwide protests have largely dwindled, although thousands of demonstrators have been gathering at Taksim every Saturday for the past three weeks — mostly demanding justice for a protester who was killed by the police — before officers intervened.
There was also pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at home when in a rare gathering of peace activists, about 3,000 demonstrators in Tel Aviv protested his policies toward the Palestinians.
Tom Hanks, who plays protagonist Professor Robert Langdon in the film, had to be chauffeur-driven the short distance from his five-star hotel to the historic location, where he briefly waved at a small gathering of fans who vied with demonstrators for his attention before disappearing inside.
Garrett Kirkland, one of the organizers of Saturday's Boston "free speech" rally, a gathering of libertarian and right-wing demonstrators that was drowned out by tens of thousands of left-wing activists, was feeling a little grouchy in the aftermath.
The protests appeared on the wane, with the smallest number of demonstrators in the past 11 days gathering in Taksim tonight.
After antigovernment protests began in Syria in early 2011, the suspect intensified his contacts with his intelligence agency handler in Berlin, reporting on gatherings of exiled opponents of the Syrian government and taking photographs of demonstrators, prosecutors said.
Barakat's first gatherings in early March were violently dispersed by security forces, with dozens of demonstrators arrested.
