Another MP, Osama Sa'adi from the Joint Arab list left the chamber in protest, reports Haaretz.
Human Rights Watch, a public interest group in New York, wrote to President Bush in December to protest reports of extreme tactics.
— David Degner (@degner) 2 Jul 13 Army left, people in a building at an entrenched to the protest reported to be throwing things down or shooting shotguns.
Nevertheless, in the southern city of Basra, several journalists at a protest reported that they had been beaten by security forces.
A senior official with the Jamaat called for a peaceful strike on Monday to protest reported vote-rigging in the city.
Thousands of students from across the country marched in London today to protest reported government plans to let British universities start charging American-style tuition fees.
Gavin Lewis Manchester Your editorial (The world at their fingertips, 22 June) concludes: "We are creating a system of total surveillance … which, in the wrong hands, could severely curtail protest, reporting, privacy and hard-won freedoms of association and speech".
Jordan also cited continued building of settlements by Israel in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, and is to lodge a formal complaint to the UN Security Council in protest, reports say.
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's religious leader, sent a message to his followers on the new year encouraging Tibetans to mourn in protest, reported The Times Online.
A black UCLA student at an anti-Prop 8 protest reported that the gathering, "was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks.
