According to sources, Bahraini soldiers targeted the activist, Sadiq Rabiee, with birdshots.

The protest comes only a few days after the Bahraini regime announced it would seek legal action against the main opposition party, Al-Wefaq.
Manama says the party is behind the protests in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.

In response, al-Wefaq issued a statement on Saturday describing the Bahraini Interior Ministry's latest communiqué against the party as misleading and full of blatant lies.

The party also accused the ruling al-Khalifa monarchy of covering up brutality against peaceful protesters.

The statement said protesters behaved peacefully throughout the Friday march and posed no threat of any kind to anyone.

Meanwhile, the Bahraini security forces -- backed by masked militiamen and plainclothes -- violently attacked the demonstrators and used foul language, tear gas, stun grenades and batons to break up their rally, al-Wefaq pointed out.

The statement further said that Saudi-backed regime forces were ready to attack peaceful protesters with different kinds of weapons.

The al-Khalifa regime seeks to conceal committed "atrocities" against protestors in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom through a total ban on public protests. Such a move deprives the nation of the right to freedom of expression, al-Wefaq pointed out.

The Bahraini revolution began in mid-February 2011, when the people, inspired by the popular revolutions that toppled the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt, started holding massive demonstrations.

Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org