Bahraini Authorities Attack Funerals
Mourners at the funeral of the 22-year-old Bahraini martyr Said Fadel Mirza al-Obeidi were attacked shortly after they buried his body on Tuesday.
Al-Obeidi died on Saturday, nine days after being hit with a canister of tear gas fired by security forces, opposition activists said.
Doctors said his skull was fractured and he died later of his wounds.
Several thousand people took to the streets on Tuesday in Mirza's home town of Diraz, east of the capital Manama.
Said Yousif, a human rights activist in Bahrain, said that about 3,000 or 4,000 mourners had taken to the streets but were confronted with over 100 heavily armed security forces.
"The mourners came out today for Mirza and when we finished and were still in the graveyard the police came and started firing tear gas and stun bombs," he said, pointing out that "there hadn't even been a protest, we were going back to our cars."
Yousif said the attack had sparked a protest amongst the mourners, with activists taking to the streets to call for reform.
He also unveiled that "they were firing tear gas from the main road, even inside the houses."
Several people were reported injured and one of them is in a critical condition.
A recent probe by Amnesty International into the government's crackdown revealed that the regime forces in Bahrain have used "excessive and unnecessary force against the protesters."
Source: News Agencies ,Edited by moqawama.org
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