The Lede is following the continuing street protests in Egypt on Monday. For a summary of the latest events, see the main news article by my colleagues in Egypt. A stream of Twitter updates by bloggers and journalists we’re following is in the right column of this blog. Updates below mix alerts on breaking news with reports from other Web sites and video, photographs and eyewitness accounts posted on social networks. Readers who want to share information with us can write in the comment thread below or send photographs or video from Egypt to pix@nyt.com. Read more…

The Lede is following the continuing street protests in Egypt on Sunday. For a summary of the latest events, see the main news article by my colleagues in Egypt. There is a stream of Twitter updates by bloggers and journalists we’re following to the right. Updates below mix alerts on breaking news with reports from other Web sites and eyewitness accounts, video and photographs posted on social networks. Readers who want to share information with us can write in the comment thread below or send photographs or video from Egypt to pix@nyt.com. Read more…

The Lede followed the continuing protests in Egypt on Saturday, as demonstrators demanding an end to the autocratic rule of President Hosni Mubarak return to the streets following the dramatic events of Friday. For a summary of the latest events, see the main news article on this site with reports from my colleagues inside Egypt. Readers who are in Egypt and want to share information with us can write in the comment thread below or send photographs or video to pix@nyt.com. Read more…

The Lede followed protests across Egypt of Friday, as demonstrators demanding an end to the autocratic rule of President Hosni Mubarak took to the streets following the end of Friday Prayers. For a summary of the latest events, see the main news article on this site with reports from my colleagues inside Egypt. Readers who are in Egypt and want to share information with us can write in the comment thread below or send photographs to pix@nyt.com. Read more…

Gigi Ibrahim, an Egyptian blogger and activist — known as Gsquare86 on Twitter — spoke to The Lede via Skype from an Internet cafe in Cairo on Thursday evening.

Nurit Kedar, an Israeli documentary filmmaker, told Channel 4 News of Britain on Thursday that she had received death threats following the broadcast of her latest film, a report on Israeli soldiers who expressed regrets over their own conduct during the war in Gaza two years ago.

The 13-minute documentary, made for Channel 4 News, was posted online on Wednesday. In response, Ms. Kedar said: “I have had phone calls saying, ‘You should be hanged,’ and calling me a traitor. People have sent me messages calling for me to be expelled from Israel, saying I am a traitor to my mother and father.”

The Jewish Chronicle reported on Thursday that a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in London had complained about the film. Among the embassy’s objections was the weight Ms. Kedar’s film gave to the use of the word “cleanse,” by a young tank commander she interviewed. The commander said that before his unit went into Gaza, the soldiers were told: “We needed to cleanse the neighborhoods, the buildings, the area. It sounds really terrible to say ‘cleanse,’ but those were the orders.”

According to The Chronicle, the Israeli spokesman said the word was mistranslated, that it was “used by soldiers to describe when they are not under threat during a search, the nearest equivalent being ‘clear.’ ” Read more…

Updated | 4:55 p.m. Before he was beaten to death with a hammer on Wednesday, David Kato was the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, where homophobia is so widespread that Parliament is considering a bill that would provide for the execution of homosexuals, as my colleague Jeffrey Gettleman reports.

Several months ago, a Ugandan newspaper featured his photograph on its front page beside the lurid banner headline, “100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak.” Another line of text said simply, “Hang Them.”

Gay activists, including Mr. Kato, sued the paper and won damages. A court also ordered the newspaper to cease publishing the names and addresses of gay Ugandans.

In interviews after the anti-homosexual legislation gained attention outside Uganda, Mr. Kato explained the dangers of the proposed law. In late 2009, he described the potential impact in an audio interview with The Times.

Last year, Mr. Kato spoke about the pressures of being gay in Uganda, in an interview with the BBC.

During a trip to Belgium last April, Mr. Kato spoke to a Belgian gay rights group, Start to Wish, explaining the possible impact of the proposed new law, which could still be passed in the next few months. Video of that interview (recorded in low light) is embedded above. Read more…

Gamal Noman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Opposition protesters in Yemen on Thursday sported pink, as planned.

The protesters who filled the streets of Sana, the Yemeni capital, on Thursday demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader claimed inspiration from similar large antigovernment protests that have rattled Egypt and toppled the government in Tunisia this month.

But among the details distinguishing these marchers — including a higher degree of organization and, at least for now, no major clashes — was the preponderance of pink. Headbands, sashes, banners of cloth or paper, even the ink of the blaring slogans were a delicate pastel pink.

The color — commonly associated in the United States with breast cancer awareness and princess outfits — was both a unifying symbol and an indication of the level of planning underlying the protests.

Weeks ago, as the Tunisian protests were still escalating, a committee of the Joint Meeting Parties, an umbrella group of opposition parties that helped organize Thursday’s protests, settled on an escalating scale of protest colors.

Opposition lawmakers began by wearing purple hats and scarves to during sessions of Parliament. They moved, as planned, to pink for Thursday’s protest, choosing the color to represent love and to serve as a signal that the protests were peaceful, according to Shawki al-Qadi, a lawmaker and opposition figure. Read more…

Updated | 5:53 p.m. As my colleagues report from Cairo, protesters in the Egyptian capital are planning another large demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak’s government on Friday, to build on momentum generated by street protests on Tuesday and Wednesday.

As Egyptian bloggers and activists seek to rally support for their push to unseat Mr. Mubarak, they are pointing to evidence of unrest this week in other cities, including video posted on YouTube showing clashes in the cities of Suez and Ismailiya.

On Thursday, Reuters reported:

Police fired rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators in Suez on a third day of protests calling for an end to Mubarak’s 30-year-old rule. Protesters chucked rocks and petrol bombs at police lines. In Ismailia, hundreds of protesters clashed with police, who dispersed the crowds with tear gas.

Video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday by an Egyptian blogger using the name Bakry1eg, appeared to show protesters fleeing tear gas fired by the security forces.

The same blogger posted this video of a street protest, apparently also in Suez, with a time code suggesting that it was shot on Wednesday:

Another video blogger, who goes by the name Xamedx55, posted this clip late on Tuesday, said to have been shot after clashes in Suez that night during which protesters were killed:

On Thursday, a video blogger using the name Ehabmamdouh uploaded several clips that appeared to show a tense stand-off between protesters and riot police officers in Ismailia:

The Lede has also obtained more information about two of the clips we posted on Wednesday that showed clashes on the streets of Cairo.

An American reader named Tim, who is living in Cairo — and blogging about the protests — contacted us to say that he shot this video on Wednesday “beneath the 6 of October Bridge around 4 p.m.”

The independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm posted a subtitled version of a video report shot on Wednesday that appears to show some of the same clash:

Updated | 2:53 p.m. As my colleagues Nada Bakri and David Goodman report, the wave of protests against autocratic governments in the Arab world has now spread to Yemen, where thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Sana on Thursday.

Video of the demonstration in Sana was posted online by Al Jazeera. On YouTube, three clips, apparently shot today in Sana, were uploaded on Thursday by a blogger using the name Abas Al Nahary. This video shows several people recording a large rally on their phones:

Another blogger, who goes by the name Emadyy on YouyTube, posted this clip of what appears to be the same rally around a speaker addressing the crowd from a stage, with a note calling it a “festival against tyranny and injustice in Yemen.”

The Lede is searching for more images of the protests in Yemen. If readers have seen video, photographs or first-hand text accounts of Thursday’s protests there posted online, please send us links in the comment thread below.

Update: Thanks to the reader who sent us a link to this video, of what the blogger who posted it called “the pink rally,” in Sana on Thursday. For more on how the opposition in Yemen decided on that color for the protest, see a new post on the subject on this blog.