Nobody believed him, and activists reported that protesters were still being shot in demonstrations across the country.
On his office walls are black-and-white photographs that he shot of demonstrations in support of needle exchange, some taken when he was one of the shock troopers for the militant AIDS activist group Act Up. (He was arrested three times, but concedes that his is a lightweight rap sheet when it comes to Act Up).
Last week, four of the accused were acquitted, 22 sentenced to varying prison terms and nine, including Saif, condemned to death for crimes including recruiting mercenaries, planning and carrying out attacks on civilian targets, shooting into demonstrations during the revolution and inciting murder and rape.
The Irish came out after halftime and put on a shooting demonstration to take an 8-7 lead into the fourth.
On Wednesday, in a chaotic day of huge demonstrations, shooting, teargas and running confrontations between protesters and the military, many people were reported injured and half a dozen were reported to have been killed, most of them by gunshots.
The army reported two shooting incidents, three demonstrations in the West Bank in which rocks, bottles and firebombs were thrown, and six separate mortar launchings early this morning in the Gaza Strip.
Although Iranian opposition bloggers have occasionally misidentified images in the past, pointing to video or photographs shot at previous demonstrations as if they were evidence of new protests, several clips uploaded on Wednesday seemed to match accounts of events by witnesses and looked new to journalists who follow Iran closely.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A top United Nations official urged the international community on Friday to protect Syrian civilians from a brutal military crackdown by the government of President Bashar al-Assad, as activists said that at least 11 people were shot dead in demonstrations nationwide.
The Palestinian dead include 10 knife-wielding assailants, police said, as well as children and protesters shot during violent demonstrations.
The Palestinian dead include 10 knife-wielding assailants, police said, as well as children and protesters shot in violent demonstrations.
