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Heavy clashes between protests and police in Bahrain
By DPA
Feb 23, 2007, 9:59 GMT
Sitra, Bahrain – Several Shiite villages in Bahrain witnessed heavy clashes between protesters and anti-riot police on overnight Friday, leading to the arrest of at least 10 people.
The most serious of the clashes took place in Sitra, south of the capital Manama, where more than a 100 protesters blocked village roads and set fires.
The protesters also burned a car and exploded two gas cylinders during the clashes, which lasted well into the early morning hours.
From Monsters and Critics.com
Middle East News
Heavy clashes between protests and police in Bahrain
By DPA
Feb 23, 2007, 9:59 GMT
Sitra, Bahrain – Several Shiite villages in Bahrain witnessed heavy clashes between protesters and anti-riot police on overnight Friday, leading to the arrest of at least 10 people.
The most serious of the clashes took place in Sitra, south of the capital Manama, where more than a 100 protesters blocked village roads and set fires.
The protesters also burned a car and exploded two gas cylinders during the clashes, which lasted well into the early morning hours.
The clashes left at least two protesters slightly injured as a result of tear gas inhalation, while a policeman suffered minor injuries after being hit with a stone.
The new wave of clashes began in the Shiite village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, on Saturday February 17 after police arrested village resident Radhi Ali Radhi and a second man for their alleged role in February 15 riots in which police came under Molotov cocktail attack.
The detention of Radhi, in his early 20s, led relatives and friends to organize a protest the same day in front of the village entrance to demand his release, which later led to clashes with police.
The Ministry of Interior said that confessions obtained following the recent arrests had uncovered a clandestine operation to destabilize the country’s security.
The original clashes between protesters and police broke out earlier in the month following the detention of opposition figures Haq Movement Secretary-General Hassan Mushaima and Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) President Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
The two along with a third activist were released after the public prosecution levied five charges against the two including charges of endangering state security, which carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.
Their arrests came after they made statements critical of the authorities during the Shiite celebrations of Muharam, which the authorities said encouraged a change of the government system in illegal ways.
Mushaima, 58, and al-Khawaja, 46, who had been arrested in the past for lengthy periods because of their political activities, denied the charges.
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