Bahrainis Hold Anti-regime Protests
In Sanabis, demonstrators formed a human chain to denounce the ongoing human rights violations in Bahrain.
In Nuwaidrat, clashes broke out between regime forces and protesters.
The main Bahraini opposition group, al-Wefaq, issued a statement condemning the “continuing arrests, political trial and discrimination” against the Shia majority in the country.
Wefaq also slammed the Al Khalifa regime for failing to implement the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), which was tasked with investigating the crackdown on protests in February and March 2011.
The uprising in Bahrain began in early 2011.
The Manama regime has crushed protests. Scores of people have been killed and many more have been injured.
In November 2011, the BICI released a 500-page report which documented 46 deaths, 559 allegations of torture, and more than 4,000 cases of employees dismissed for participating in protests.
The report said during the regime’s crackdown, “force and firearms were used in an excessive manner that was, on many occasions, unnecessary, disproportionate, and indiscriminate.”
It also confirmed the regime’s use of systematic torture and other forms of physical and psychological abuse on detainees.
Source: Press TV
