Bahraini Regime Attacks Protests, Transfers Al-Wefaq to Public Prosecution
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Security forces again fired tear gas and arrested demonstrators in Bahrain's capital on Friday, as protesters renewed their calls for reform and the release of political prisoners in the Gulf island kingdom.
The protesters took to the streets three days after a Bahraini appeals court upheld the life sentences of eight leaders in the protest movement.
Those activists, included the founder of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Sheikh Hassan Mosheimeh.
Twelve opposition figures, seven of them in absentia, were also given jail terms of between 5 to 15 years. Images recorded by opposition activists and posted online showed some of the crackdown on dissent on the streets of Manama, the capital.
Alaa Shehabi, a British-Bahraini activist who spoke to The Lede about the protest movement in April, posted an image of the gas on her Twitter feed on Friday.
Mariam al-Khawaja stated that "the security forces had turned the capital into military zone just to attempt to prevent a peaceful protest," and drew attention to images posted on Twitter by witnesses that seemed to prove it.
For its part, the Bahraini interior ministry announced that "it has take the necessary legal action against al-Wefaq and filed a report for the public prosecutor to take the necessary actions under the pretext that the opposition broke the law and incited violence."
Source: News Agencies, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
Security forces again fired tear gas and arrested demonstrators in Bahrain's capital on Friday, as protesters renewed their calls for reform and the release of political prisoners in the Gulf island kingdom.
The protesters took to the streets three days after a Bahraini appeals court upheld the life sentences of eight leaders in the protest movement.
Those activists, included the founder of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Sheikh Hassan Mosheimeh.
Twelve opposition figures, seven of them in absentia, were also given jail terms of between 5 to 15 years. Images recorded by opposition activists and posted online showed some of the crackdown on dissent on the streets of Manama, the capital.
Alaa Shehabi, a British-Bahraini activist who spoke to The Lede about the protest movement in April, posted an image of the gas on her Twitter feed on Friday.
Mariam al-Khawaja stated that "the security forces had turned the capital into military zone just to attempt to prevent a peaceful protest," and drew attention to images posted on Twitter by witnesses that seemed to prove it.
For its part, the Bahraini interior ministry announced that "it has take the necessary legal action against al-Wefaq and filed a report for the public prosecutor to take the necessary actions under the pretext that the opposition broke the law and incited violence."
Source: News Agencies, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
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