More Protest Restrictions in Bahrain

Local Editor

In an attempt to restrict anti-regime protests calling for the release of Sheikh Ali Salman, Bahraini regime forces resorted to various techniques.

According to opposition sources, more residential areas are being surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire fencing.

The sources stated that the measures were taken as part of the regime's campaign of repression on the ongoing peaceful demonstrations that had been calling for the immediate release of the country's prominent opposition figure, Sheikh Ali Salman.

In addition, many other areas in the capital, Manama, as well as in other towns had been segregated by fences, sandbags and concrete barriers since last year.

Road blockades in the area of Dair in the Muharraq Governorate as well as barbed wire in a number of entries including the main entry of the area were installed by Bahraini security forces.

However, other areas like Duraz and Abu Saiba, west of Manama, had been surrounded with concrete barriers since June 2014.

The residents of Sitra Island were forced to pass through police checkpoints as the regime placed barbed wire and barriers around the area in April 2014.
The ruling Al Khalifa regime had launched a heavy-handed crackdown on the peaceful anti-government protests in Bahrain, which started in 2011.

Nevertheless, demonstrators promised to continue protesting until all their demands - the release of all political prisoners, the recognition of the Shia majority as well as a democratically elected government - were met.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team