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Arresting him and charging him with the same thing. ultimately there were five of them charged with potentially death penalty offenses for organizing protests. ultimately it was that fall. a three judge panel that ruled that that georgia sedition law was unconstitutional. all five activists be released as well as a 14-year-old girl who had been held in solitary confinement. that was early 1963. in april 1963, coretta scott king had just given birth to her fourth child, bernice. she was just days old when her father, reverend dr. martin luther king, jr. was arrested on good friday in birmingham...

Iranian lawmakers want opposition leaders tried and executed for organizing protests that turned violent on monday leaving two people dead. iranian police flooded the streets using tear gas to break up the crowds and arresting dozens. the anti-government protests were banned by officials but drew 20,000 to 30,000 people. the media was barred from filming the protest. this video was posted on youtube not shot by nbc news. we are joined now from tehran. these protests yesterday, were they bigger, about the same size to the protests during the elections that iran held and we had those protests ab...

Mubarak? i would have thought that that might have signalled to him that he's in trouble with us, but he seems not to mind. what do you say? >> mubarak has a long memory. for him, the image that haunts him is that of the united states with the shah of iran in the late 1970s. he looks at that and he reads that as an example of the united states having a strong ally that stood by them in all kinds of foreign policy crises and then at the first moment of protests, in iran, the united states and the carter administration backed off from supporting the shah of iran and that helped bring about the d...

That road. they have effectively no political institutions and yet they've overthrown the one existing institution. the state. >> have you hashtagged for some of the other countries where there's -- where people are watching this closely? what's going on in jordan right now, for example? >> we can pull up hash tag jordan and some of the other countries. one point to make is if you have a democratic movement with the leader and he's extremely charismatic and comes to power -- >> or she. >> or she, thank you. they are very good at organizing protests. they may not be very good at governing. this...

Need an institution? tunisia is already moving along that road. they have effectively no political institutions and yet they've overthrown the one existing institution. the state. >> have you hashtagged for some of the other countries where there's -- where people are watching this closely? what's going on in jordan right now, for example? >> we can pull up hash tag jordan and some of the other countries. one point to make is if you have a democratic movement with the leader and he's extremely charismatic and comes to power -- >> or she. >> or she, thank you. they are very good at organizing p...