Female protesters played a prominent role in the unrest after the disputed election, as illustrated by the case of Neda Agha Soltan, the 26-year-old woman who became the symbol of the demonstrations after her death at the hands of a sniper was caught on film and beamed across the world.
One prominent political historian said the unrest was the "most widespread and most uncontrollable" political violence Thailand had ever seen.
Monks at Kirti have been particularly prominent in the prefecture's unrest, and the monastery is now under heavy police guard.Woeser, a Tibetan blogger in Beijing who closely monitors the region, says the authorities inadvertently exacerbated Sichuan's instability by expelling hundreds of visiting monks from monasteries around Lhasa after the 2008 unrest.
PA officials fear that certain senior Fatah commanders who have fallen foul of Mr Abbas in particular a former intelligence chief, Tawfiq Tirawi, and a prominent strongman, Muhammad Dahlan are stoking the unrest in the hope of creating a security vacuum they could later fill.
The government also released 36 people jailed for participating in the unrest, including the prominent human rights activist, Tawakul Karman.
The most prominent plan attempted to foment unrest and trigger a Pan-Indian mutiny in the British Indian Army from Punjab to Singapore.
The government of Qatar, which has openly supported and financed the Syrian opposition since the start of the unrest, has been a prominent target of the SEA.
The trial of a prominent dissident, which could well provoke further unrest, has just begun.
So has the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, an organisation formed during the Tiananmen unrest and whose leaders include prominent democrats.
Saudi Arabia's mass execution of 47 prisoners — including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr — triggered unrest across the Middle East on Saturday, particularly in Iran, where protesters stormed and ransacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Many of their most prominent voices have been silent during the recent unrest.
