Bahraini Police Beats Elderly Man to Death, Attacks Protesters
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The elderly father of the second in command of Bahrain's largest opposition group "al-Wefaq" died of his injuries Thursday after riot police attacked him a day earlier.
"Ali Hasan al-Dehi, 70, was attacked by riot police forces Wednesday evening and died early Thursday," "al-Wefaq's" website reported.
His son, Hussein al-Dehi, is deputy head of "al-Wefaq".
The statement said the elder Dehi had told one of his sons, who had arrived home to find him on the floor, that "he had been beaten by riot police."
"Al-Wefaq" member and former MP Sayed Hadi Moussaoui told AFP that "police were dispersing a protest in the western village of Dehi, when the man was attacked."
Moussaoui said members of the Dehi household were harassed several times by the authorities, adding that the dead man's wife had been insulted.
Meanwhile, security forces in Bahrain have used tear gas and armored vehicles to drive back protesters streaming toward a heavily guarded square that was once the center for pro-reform demonstrations in the Gulf nation.
Witnesses say hundreds of people marched on Pearl Square in Bahrain's capital Manama after a massive funeral procession Friday for the 70-year-old man.
Source: News Agencies, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
The elderly father of the second in command of Bahrain's largest opposition group "al-Wefaq" died of his injuries Thursday after riot police attacked him a day earlier.
"Ali Hasan al-Dehi, 70, was attacked by riot police forces Wednesday evening and died early Thursday," "al-Wefaq's" website reported.
His son, Hussein al-Dehi, is deputy head of "al-Wefaq".
The statement said the elder Dehi had told one of his sons, who had arrived home to find him on the floor, that "he had been beaten by riot police."
"Al-Wefaq" member and former MP Sayed Hadi Moussaoui told AFP that "police were dispersing a protest in the western village of Dehi, when the man was attacked."
Moussaoui said members of the Dehi household were harassed several times by the authorities, adding that the dead man's wife had been insulted.
Meanwhile, security forces in Bahrain have used tear gas and armored vehicles to drive back protesters streaming toward a heavily guarded square that was once the center for pro-reform demonstrations in the Gulf nation.
Witnesses say hundreds of people marched on Pearl Square in Bahrain's capital Manama after a massive funeral procession Friday for the 70-year-old man.
Source: News Agencies, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
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