Anti-government protests in Arab world have further intensified. In Libya, protests spread closer to the capital yesterday and new fighting erupted in the flash-point city of Benghazi. Human Rights Watch said it fears a catastrophe with more than 170 people dead in an iron-fisted crackdown since Tuesday. France called the government response unacceptable and totally disproportionate. People in London and Cairo protested against Libyan President Moamer Gadhafi who has ruled the oil-rich North African country for four decades. Gaddafi's son, Sayf al-Islam, has admitted the country's military over-reacted when dealing with protesters. But, speaking on Libyan TV, he accused the opposition and Islamist groups of trying to break up the country. In Yemen, hundreds of students demonstrated on the eighth straight day of anti-regime protests in Sanaa yesterday. Yemeni police shot dead a protester in the southern regional capital Aden, raising the death toll to 11 in the restive city since February 13 as the opposition vowed to join protests. In Bahrain, thousands of anti-government protesters are camping in Manama’s Pearl Square after the army was ordered off the streets by country’s Crown Prince. Opposition groups presented its demands to the crown prince, which include the release of all political prisoners, resignation of the government investigations of deaths of protesters and talks on a new constitution. Opposition groups and anti-government protesters in Bahrain say their demands must be met before they will enter into talks. In Morocco, several thousand people rallied in different cities demanding political reform and limits on the powers of the king. Over 2,000 people took to the streets of the capital Rabat demanding change in regime. In the biggest Moroccan city of Casablanca, over 1,000 people came out demanding freedom, dignity and justice. In Iran, government has released Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Iran's ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was freed today after being arrested briefly. In the capital Tehran, police have been deployed to prevent protests. In Iraq, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of west Iraq's Ramadi city yesterday demanding the resignation of the Province's Governor and action against corrupt elements in the State offices. They have also extended their support to the proposed demonstration in Baghdad on Friday.