Peaceful protesters killed in Bahrain today

[California Girl]

Two Bahraini protesters die in police custody

Manama, Bahrain - Bahraini authorities said Saturday two protestors have died in separate incidents, marking the third time in a week that opposition detainees have died in custody.
Ali Isa Saqer, 31, died before reaching the hospital, the Interior Ministry said.
Saqer, who was being held for attempted murder of policemen he allegedly tried to run-over on during unrest on March 13, was unruly inside the detention centre and the use of force was required, the ministry said.
The statement did not clarify if other detainees were involved or injured in Saqer incident.

Two Bahraini protesters die in police custody - Monsters and Critics

Sorry to hear that, bareed. Sadly, democracy is a long, hard road... but worth the price.

 

[Si modo]

I been to Bahrain and its a lovely country, its people are taken care of for the most part, what are they protesting about?

Me too! I liked Bahrain. Very interesting place. Shame for them that their protesters have been killed.

but

what if the protestors were anti-war leftists?

or pro pot?

i would suspect that a deranged right wing lunatic like you would approve of killing left wing protestorss

or pro pot protestors

or liberals
or moderate republicans
or people who aren't insane

It appears that you let your imagination define your reality.


That's sorta scary.

 

[High_Gravity]

In Iran, dozens of students attack Saudi embassy with firebombs to protest Bahrain crackdown

TEHRAN, Iran - Scores of Iranian students have attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy with firebombs to protest the Gulf country's role in cracking down on anti-government protesters in Bahrain.

The official IRNA news agency says protesters tried to attach a flag of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to the embassy's gate Monday, but were prevented by police. Protesters chanted slogans against Saudi and Bahraini leaders, both followers of Sunni Islam.

Iran, predominantly Shiite Muslim, has denounced the deployment of a Saudi-led force to help prop up Bahrain's monarchy. A government crackdown against Bahrain's Shiite-led protests has killed at least 27 people. Authorities say they see Iran's influence among the opposition, though there are no visible links.

In Iran, dozens of students attack Saudi embassy with firebombs to protest Bahrain crackdown - Winnipeg Free Press

 

[bareed]

Zakarya Al-Asheeri who killed prison buried today in vilage sorrounded by Army & Riot Police

 

[High_Gravity]

Daughter Of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Jailed Bahraini Rights Activist, Goes On Hunger Strike

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A daughter of a prominent Bahraini human rights activist went on hunger strike on Tuesday to protest the arrest of several family members – including her father and her husband – over anti-government demonstrations in the Gulf country.

Zainab al-Khawaja told The Associated Press that she will refuse food until her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, is released, along with her husband, brother-in-law and uncle.

The 27-year-old mother of a baby girl first announced her hunger strike in a letter addressed to President Barack Obama that she posted on her blog on Monday.

The uncle was arrested in a different police sweep while the other three men were taken into custody in a raid on Zainab's house in a Shiite village outside the capital Manama on Saturday. Zainab said her father was beaten unconscious before he was taken away by armed masked men

"My father's only crime is that he has documented human rights abuses in Bahrain," Zainab al-Khawaja told the AP in a phone interview. "I demand he and all men of my family are released."

Authorities in Bahrain have cracked down heavily on decent since martial law was declared last month to quell protests by the country's Shiite majority against the Sunni royal family that has ruled the tiny Gulf island nation for more than 200 years.

The Shiites are agitating for greater political freedoms and equal rights.

Bahrain holds particular importance to Washington as the host of U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, the main American counterweight to Iran's efforts to expand its military influence into the Gulf.

The United States has urged the monarchy to respect human rights but says little about allegations of repression against Bahrain's Shiites.

Daughter Of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Jailed Bahraini Rights Activist, Goes On Hunger Strike

 

[bareed]

Nabeel Rajab the president of Bahrain Center of Human Rights said "the fourth death in less than 15 days in Bahrain prisons -Killing of a Bahraini businessman Karim Fakhrawi in Bahraini prisons today" on his twitter.

 

[bareed]

Nabeel Rajab of Bahrain facing Military Trial for Publishing Photo
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4T_cUzEZs4]YouTube - Nabeel Rajab of Bahrain facing Military Trial for Publishing Photo[/ame]

 

[High_Gravity]

How Bahrain's Government Is Dividing the People

Liz, a Shi'ite in her late 20s, is afraid to leave her house. She says that the last time she went out, government-hired thugs stopped her car at one of the many checkpoints that litter Manama, the capital of Bahrain. They pulled her out, asked for her identity card and tried to ascertain one thing: whether she was Sunni or Shi'ite.

"It's pure racial profiling," she says a few days later, sitting in her family's living room in Al'Ali, a Shi'ite village north of Manama. "Your name could lead to your arrest if it's a Shia name." Her brother, an IT engineer, asks not to be named for fear of retribution. The last time he went out, thugs pulled him over, with his wife and child in the car. "They hauled me out, asked, 'Are you Sunni or Shia?'" he says. "My dearest friend since childhood is a Sunni. Now he won't even speak to me. He's a former roommate, and now he treats me like a stranger." Anytime he speaks to Sunnis now, he says, "it's like there's an invisible shield between us."

An increasingly bitter sectarian divide is eroding the social fabric of the island kingdom, the result of a crackdown by the ruling Sunni government on Shi'ite antigovernment protesters. The government's new, highly effective strategy of divide and rule has sought to split the country along sectarian lines, making it harder for protesters to organize a credible national opposition movement. "The most successful revolutions in the region have been in Egypt and Tunisia, and that's because protesters have been able to unite people from different backgrounds," says Jane Kinninmont, senior research fellow for the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House. "Division in conflict is a powerful tool."

So far, at least 25 Shi'ites have been killed, hundreds injured and hundreds more activists, high-profile bloggers and political leaders arrested by Bahraini government forces in violent predawn raids. Opposition-party headquarters have been torched, Shi'ite citizens shot at random by security forces. The crisis has polarized the two sects — Sunnis, the wealthier ruling class, vs. Shi'ites, who comprise the 70% majority. In February, demonstrators from both groups had said they were united. "No Sunni, no Shia," they chanted. They waved banners that read, "We are one." That unity has dissipated.

"The Bahraini regime has increasingly adopted an us-vs.-them attitude, seeing Shias as intent on subverting the country," says Shadi Hamid, research director at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "By repeating the same narrative over and over, more Sunnis start believing it, and more Shias feel they are being painted as enemies." The biggest factor in the split is propaganda spread by state-controlled media, namely flagship network Bahrain TV. The regime also continues to jail opposition journalists and independent bloggers, has placed strict visa restrictions on foreign reporters and shuttered the newspaper of opposition party al-Wefaq.

Read more: How Bahrain's Government Is Dividing Sunnis and Shi'ites - TIME

 

[California Girl]

Sadly, it's predictable for governments to crack down. It's frustrating to watch such disgraceful behavior by governments anywhere.

 

[High_Gravity]

Sadly, it's predictable for governments to crack down. It's frustrating to watch such disgraceful behavior by governments anywhere.

The Bahrainis have even brought in Militaries from other countries like Saudi Arabia to suppress the people, its sad.

 

[California Girl]

Sadly, it's predictable for governments to crack down. It's frustrating to watch such disgraceful behavior by governments anywhere.

The Bahrainis have even brought in Militaries from other countries like Saudi Arabia to suppress the people, its sad.

Not surprising, considering that if Bahrain falls, it is more than likely that the Saudi people will see that as a beacon for their own uprising.

 

[High_Gravity]

Sadly, it's predictable for governments to crack down. It's frustrating to watch such disgraceful behavior by governments anywhere.

The Bahrainis have even brought in Militaries from other countries like Saudi Arabia to suppress the people, its sad.

Not surprising, considering that if Bahrain falls, it is more than likely that the Saudi people will see that as a beacon for their own uprising.

That plus the Saudis don't want a new Shite led regime right next door to them.

 

[High_Gravity]

Haji Karim Fakhrawi, Bahrain Opposition Figure, Dies In Government Custody

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UBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain's Shiite opposition party says another one of its supporters, the fourth so far, has died in police custody.

Al Wefaq, Bahrain's main opposition bloc in the Sunni-ruled Gulf country, says Haji Karim Fakhrawi died in "mysterious circumstances."

The statement Wednesday did not say when he died.

Bahrain's official news agency said Fakhrawi died of kidney failure. The report quotes medical examiner from Bahrain Defense Forces Hospital on the cause of death.

Human rights activists and Fakhrawi's relatives say marks and bruises on his body suggest he died of torture.

At least 30 people have been killed since anti-government protests by Bahrain's Shiite majority began in February. Hundreds have been detained in the crackdown on the rebellion.

Haji Karim Fakhrawi, Bahrain Opposition Figure, Dies In Government Custody

 

[bareed]

GC it is good to see you here again. I like your discussion with High_Gravity.

We are in horrible situation, it is so bad that you go back to home and you see troops pointing bombs to your village and helicopter flied over your head.

 

[bareed]

Too Graphic: This video showing tourtor marks on died presoners
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInmrWJ5KfI]YouTube - torture of Bahraini political prisoners[/ame]

 

[bareed]

She was talking about her family whom arrested:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAr2F-sHx34]YouTube - Maryam Alkhawaja speaks to Secretary Clinton at the US Islamic World Forum[/ame]

 

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Francois Exposes the Bahraini Regime
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5EeapnlzBw]YouTube - Francois Exposes the Bahraini Regime[/ame]

 

[bareed]

Yathreb School: the following 14 year old girls are in police custody: Rabab Adel, Iman Ahmed, Fadeela Sayed Abbas, Zahra Mansoor

After Docs, teachers and collage students arrested this time the polise start arresting intermediate students and punishing primary students.

Yesterday the Saudi & Bahraini army demolished tow registered mosques.

 

[bareed]

What you think about arresting students?