Bahrain Demonstrators Defy Police Ban
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Hundreds of Bahrainis gathered on Saturday for a demonstration called by the Shiite-led opposition defying a ban by police.
Cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, who heads the main Shiite opposition formation al-Wefaq, appeared along with leading opposition figures among the protesters, according to rights activist Yousif al-Mahafda and footage posted on social networks.
The demonstration on the service lane of a highway leading to Manama was called for by four opposition groups, led by al-Wefaq.
Riot police blocked the roads leading to the assembly point in Tubli, southwest of the capital, forcing demonstrators to gather across the road, former MP Matar Matar told Agence France Presse.
Salman later told demonstrators to go home after fruitless negotiations with the police, saying that the "message was delivered," Matar said.
The interior ministry said in a statement on Friday that it had rejected a request by al-Wefaq to hold the rally because it would "obstruct traffic along the main road."
Demonstrations have become commonplace in Shiite villages despite a heavy-handed crackdown that ended a month-long pro-democracy protest in mid-March.
Riot police regularly clash with demonstrators and use tear gas to disperse gatherings.
An international probe into Bahrain's crackdown on protests found that 35 people were killed in the unrest, including five security personnel and five detainees who were tortured to death in custody. Hundreds were injured.
07 January 2012, 20:21
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the filthy zionist information war department has nothing to say on bahrain, as usual
07 January 2012, 21:50
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More importantly habalkamel no one is defending what the regime in Bahrain is doing unlike you and your Zionist spies infested bee2a al hadinat which defends what the Syrian regime is doing in Syria the way you defended and supported it with all it's crimes and the occupation in Lebanon.
08 January 2012, 00:48
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The pro-democracy protests are 11 months old (not 1) and are still ongoing.
08 January 2012, 00:52
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Mehdi is correct. The Hezz are shown to be total hypocrites. The hezz cannot be for the Libyan and Bahrain protests while defending ASSad. Not to mention sending shabiha to Iran and Syria, plus sending killers to Egypt and Iraq. They are losing support in the region as a fraud and they know it. They are no longer recognized as any sort of resistance, only an armed mafia making trouble in virtually every country in the region.
The world and Syrians know the best way to break this killer meddling axis is first to get rid of ASSad. There is a 100% guarantee ASSad is leaving. No one believes his fake al-Qaeda bombs or the fake headlines from the Hezz.
I am planning a big party this year for the fall of ASSad.
08 January 2012, 04:30
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Habal continued zionist filthy mind continue to infest other mindsets that his type of people are innocent forgetting as always the facts that the world witness such as freeing Hizbollah members by the Marines in Iraq before they left, creating havoc in Bahrain similar to the tents and assassinations Lebanon witnessed during the previous government.
