"By announcing that they will not allow opposition protests, the Iranian government has declared illegal for Iranians what it claimed was noble for Egyptians," the statement, from the White House, said.
"Bahrain has never seen anything like this," says veteran civil rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, an independent organisation that the government has declared illegal.
That strategy was halted on Monday when a federal appeals court said that civil liberties and journalism groups challenging an eavesdropping law could pursue a suit trying to get the government's wiretapping declared illegal.
For now, the underlying issue for the owners and producers behind private food clubs, coöps, and herd shares through which raw milk and other farm products are distributed is this: will the members-only contracts protect them when they choose to sell food that the government has been declared illegal?
Last Saturday, the government declared Bersih illegal, because it had not registered as an organization and was causing unrest among the public.
Later, when she formed her own organization, known simply as the Care Group, the local government declared it illegal and threatened to seize its assets, the Chinese media reported.
In 2012, the Lagos state government declared Makoko illegal, and tried to evict its residents in order to raze the entire floating slum.
While many of the other fighters had to travel from Britain in secret after the British government declared it illegal to go to Spain to fight, Browne had, in fact, arrived just before the war broke out.
The government borrowed two hundred thousand dollars from them and promised to repay the loan with interest, but hard-currency trading was soon declared illegal, and the government refused to return the money.
