Witnify Blog http://blog.witnify.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:29:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Arab Spring Doctors and nurses accused of helping protesters http://blog.witnify.com/?p=13994 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=13994#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:44:48 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=13994 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBkFNtinhes?rel=0&start=5

Doctors and nurses in Bahrain, during the Arab Spring, tell stories of how they were tortured, imprisoned, and jailed for treating injured demonstrators. Security forces convicted them of "collaborating" with demonstrators. The Arab Spring movement started on December 18, 2010.

]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=13994 0 Arab Spring Mohamed Bouazizi’s family on his self-immolation http://blog.witnify.com/?p=13862 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=13862#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:11:40 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=13862 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHw_auqod6Y?rel=0&start=15

The family of Mohamed Bouazizi recalls what happened on December 17, 2010, the day he set himself on fire as protest against the harassment he received as a street vendor. Bouazizi's self-immolation has been credited as the beginning of the Arab Spring movement that started on December 18, 2010 and spread all over the Middle East.

]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=13862 0 Arab Spring Cal student Justin Hinton was in Egypt: “People wanted change” http://blog.witnify.com/?p=4904 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=4904#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:32:35 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=4904 Continue reading]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7ByqfURRg?rel=0&start=29

Journalism student from UC Berkeley, Justin Hinton, was studying in Egypt when the Arab Spring protests broke out and he recounts his time during the revolution.

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