Protest Rallies Planned in Bahrain Friday
According to Al-Alam news network, the coalition urged people to take to the streets in the tiny Persian Gulf island country’s cities, towns and villages to voice protest at the regime’s oppression and injustice.
Titled "Friday of People’s Decision” the rallies are aimed at voicing people’s demand for having the right to determine their fate.
Anti-regime protests are almost a daily occurrence in Bahrain where a popular uprising hit the country on February 14, 2011. Protesters are demanding that the Al Khalifah dynasty relinquish power.
Troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been deployed to the tiny kingdom to assist in the crackdown.
Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others been injured. The regime has also arrested and jailed hundreds of protesters and political leaders, subjecting them to torture and other abuse, according to rights groups.
Meanwhile, in yet another move to intensify crackdown on dissent, Bahraini authorities have resumed preventing human rights activists from traveling abroad.
On Wednesday, deputy secretary general of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Fatima al-Halwaji, was stopped at the airport. It was not clear where she was heading.
Authorities informed her that she could not travel abroad based on an order issued by the public prosecutor’s office, Arabic-language Lualua television network reported.
The order read that Halwaji had been slapped with a travel ban on charges of "spreading false news through social media networks,” it said.
It came four days after Bahrain’s Unitary National Democratic Assemblage said officials had prevented human rights activist Monzer al-Khor from leaving the country through the King Fahd Causeway, which connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia.
