Sat Jan 6, 4:53 AM ET
Eight suspects held for two firebomb attacks in Bahrain — including one on a site where condolences were received for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein — have been freed.
Four people arrested in connection with a December 30 attack with a Molotov cocktail on a police patrol in the Shiite-populated village of Daraz west of Manama that left one policeman injured were freed for lack of evidence against them, the public prosecution said in a statement.
Around seven people were detained over the incident, but the others were released, activists said Saurday.
The Al-Watan newspaper reported that four people arrested for suspicion of involvement in a separate attack with Molotov cocktails on a site where condolences for Saddam were being received were set free.
Sat Jan 6, 4:53 AM ET
Eight suspects held for two firebomb attacks in Bahrain — including one on a site where condolences were received for ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein — have been freed.
Four people arrested in connection with a December 30 attack with a Molotov cocktail on a police patrol in the Shiite-populated village of Daraz west of Manama that left one policeman injured were freed for lack of evidence against them, the public prosecution said in a statement.
Around seven people were detained over the incident, but the others were released, activists said Saurday.
The Al-Watan newspaper reported that four people arrested for suspicion of involvement in a separate attack with Molotov cocktails on a site where condolences for Saddam were being received were set free.
The firebombs were hurled on Thursday at the premises of the Nationalist Democratic Rally Association (NDRA), an opposition pan-Arab nationalist group that includes pro-Baath activists, causing minor damage to the building.
Saddam’s execution a week ago for crimes against humanity, carried out on the first day of a major Muslim religious festival, has outraged Iraqis from his Sunni Arab community but was also seen as an affront by many Muslims outside Iraq.
Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni dynasty but Shiites comprise a majority of the native population.
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