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Arab States Weekly Review Oct 27th – Nov 2nd 2012

A four-day ceasefire during the holy Eid holiday failed to hold in Syria. Fighting continued in and around Damascus.

Following clashes between anti-government demonstrators and the police, Bahrain banned all protests in the country. The interior minister said that the “repeated abuse” of the right to freedom of expression could no longer be accepted, and that protests would be permitted only once security and stability were restored.