New York, March 22, 2011
In Bahrain, police fired pellets at CBS Radio correspondent Toula Vlahou as she covered demonstrations in the capital, Manama, on Thursday, CBS News said. Vlahou reported that police fired as she and her local driver tried to leave a confrontation in which police were using tear gas to disperse demonstrators. “The riot police showed no mercy, they did not stop to ask us who we were. They just saw a camera and they started firing,”
New York, March 22, 2011
In Bahrain, police fired pellets at CBS Radio correspondent Toula Vlahou as she covered demonstrations in the capital, Manama, on Thursday, CBS News said. Vlahou reported that police fired as she and her local driver tried to leave a confrontation in which police were using tear gas to disperse demonstrators. “The riot police showed no mercy, they did not stop to ask us who we were. They just saw a camera and they started firing,” Vlahou said in her report. She said police rammed her car, slashed its tires, broke its windows, and confiscated identification cards and equipment. In a video posted on YouTube, Vlahou can be seen asking Bahrain’s foreign minister about the attack.
Also in Bahrain, authorities arrested bloggers Ali Abdel Imam and Abduljalil Alsingace on Thursday, regional media reported. It was not immediately clear whether Alsingace’s detention was related to his political activism or his online writing; he was detained alongside four high-profile members of the political opposition. The two bloggers had been arrested on antistate conspiracy charges last year during a government crackdown; they were released in February as the government sought to appease a then-nascent protest movement.
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