Thousands of people have turned out for demonstrations across Europe, with more scheduled for next Saturday.
This time was different: Muslims and non-Muslims alike turned out for demonstrations of solidarity.
Since the decision, tens of thousands of protesters have turned out for demonstrations in Munich and Berlin condemning the government.
Most of the troops that Óscar Olivera could personally call out for demonstrations were jubilados — retired factory workers, old union men shuffling under battered fedoras, like faded figures on a postcard from some antipodal workers' state of another era.
PAGE A9 DEMONSTRATIONS IN BAHRAIN Tens of thousands of Bahrainis turned out for demonstrations to demand democratic reforms, the largest protest against the government in a year of unrest.
Western diplomats did not engage in earnest until July 24, when General Sisi, in dark sunglasses and military regalia, delivered a fiery speech asking the public to turn out for demonstrations giving him a "mandate" to take on the Islamists.
The arrests began when millions of Iranians turned out for demonstrations after the government announced that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a landslide victory against his prime challenger, Mir Hussein Moussavi, on June 12.
A government official said more than 100,000 people turned out for the demonstration, a huge protest in a country of 4 million.
Iona Craig, a freelance journalist and Yemen correspondent for The Times of London, reporting from the protest said that hundreds of people, possibly a thousand turned out for the demonstration on Friday.
"I will not go out for the demonstration and I will not do or say anything unless Moktada says so," said Imad Ali, a 41-year-old Shiite from Sadr City, a poor Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad.
