Saudi-Backed Forces Attack Peaceful Protests: Bahrain
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Saudi-backed Bahraini security forces have attacked peaceful anti-regime protesters with tear gas and sound grenades outside Bahrain's capital Manama on Thursday.
According to press reports, thousands of protesters had taken to the streets during the day, in the northeastern town of Sitra to demand the release of activists jailed by the regime.
They particularly called for the release of prominent Bahraini-Danish human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and the detained opposition leader Hassan Mushaima.
The demonstrators also shouted anti-regime slogans, renewing their call for the downfall of the al-Khalifa regime.
On a related note, Mobs backed by police with iron rods and sticks ransacked a supermarket belonging to a major business group, as part of a spike in violence in the Gulf nation.
Dozens of pro-regime thugs - nicknamed locally by activists as the "Baltajiya" - appeared at the Alba Roundabout on the outskirts of the capital Manama attacking civilians and destroying property.
Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds have been injured or arrested in the brutal suppression of peaceful protesters by Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces since anti-government protests began in the Persian Gulf kingdom in mid-February, 2011.
Source: News Agencies
Saudi-backed Bahraini security forces have attacked peaceful anti-regime protesters with tear gas and sound grenades outside Bahrain's capital Manama on Thursday.
According to press reports, thousands of protesters had taken to the streets during the day, in the northeastern town of Sitra to demand the release of activists jailed by the regime.
They particularly called for the release of prominent Bahraini-Danish human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and the detained opposition leader Hassan Mushaima.
The demonstrators also shouted anti-regime slogans, renewing their call for the downfall of the al-Khalifa regime.
On a related note, Mobs backed by police with iron rods and sticks ransacked a supermarket belonging to a major business group, as part of a spike in violence in the Gulf nation.
Dozens of pro-regime thugs - nicknamed locally by activists as the "Baltajiya" - appeared at the Alba Roundabout on the outskirts of the capital Manama attacking civilians and destroying property.
Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds have been injured or arrested in the brutal suppression of peaceful protesters by Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces since anti-government protests began in the Persian Gulf kingdom in mid-February, 2011.
Source: News Agencies
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