40 Women Arrested over Bahrain Vote Protest
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More than 40 Bahraini women were arrested and beaten by security forces for protesting against parliamentary by-elections, the main Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq said in a statement Monday.
"More than 40 Bahraini women were savagely arrested ... in a commercial center where they were beaten," it said.
"Seven minors aged between 12 and 15 were among them," the statement said, quoting their lawyers, adding that they were "beaten and humiliated."
Al-Wefaq called for the immediate release of the women, said they had only been expressing their "right to freedom of expression," and called their treatment "savage and inhumane."
The group said clerics from the Shiite-majority kingdom ruled by a Sunni dynasty staged a protest sit-in on Monday in a Shiite suburb of the capital Manama.
The women were arrested on Friday a day before the by-elections boycotted by the opposition to replace 18 Shiite MPs who quit the parliament in protest over the violence used against demonstrators in February.
A second round of voting in the by-elections will be held on Saturday in nine constituencies, the authorities announced on Sunday.
27 September 2011, 07:34
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Those of us who support freedom do so for all oppressed people. In Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and on and on. Men and women should be allowed to choose their fate and rid themselves of their oppressors.
Now, Le big, will you support freedom for all the oppressed, or will you simply choose to be on the side of losing thugs? I assure you, such a strategy will backfire when the inevitable happens, and you will have managed to turn even the most moderate Sunnis against you. Your choices may not even include Iran and Syria, where freedom will surely come.
27 September 2011, 09:10
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be sure we are truthfull to our convictions: we support all democratic movements.
unfortunately, it is clear you are selective when it comes to Syria or Iran, you support their regime and all the killings they do.
you are like jeckel and hide, and your dual personalities will haunt you.
