Below is a country-by-country round-up of events in the MENA region
BahrainBahrain has continued to repress protests in the capital Manama. Bahraini protesters requested international activists to help them commemorate the first anniversary of protests on February 14. Witness Bahrain reports that two American protesters were deported and several arrested. Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy reported in an earlier Daily Kos diary that he was one of many people prevented from entering Bahrain.
In better news from Bahrain, two prominent protesters, former MP Mattar Ebrahim was acquitted by a Bahrain court on charges of unlawful assembly. Also released was blogger Zainab Alkhawaja, better known as angry arabiya after she was arrested for taking part in the protests earlier this month. These are better strategic moves on the part of the Bahraini government but the protests show little sign of going away.