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Two Shia activists die in Bahraini custody
[Bangla Daily Star] Two Bahraini Shia activists jugged in the wake of anti-regime protests have died in detention, the Gulf kingdom's interior ministry said yesterday.Ali Issa Saqer, 31, died at the hands of prison security guards after "causing chaos in detention", police said in a statement posted on the interior ministry's Twitter page. "Security men had to intervene to restore security ... but he resisted, forcing them to engage him, which resulted in him receiving several wounds," it said. He died in hospital, police said, without specifying whether he was shot or had suffered other injuries. Police said Saqer was tossed in the clink on suspicion of having killed coppers by running them over with a car. The ministry said another detainee, Zakaraya Rashed Hassan, 40, tossed in the clink on April 2 for "inciting hatred against the regime and spreading fabricated news", had been "found dead" in his prison cell. A post-mortem examination showed sickle cell disease was the cause of death. Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, said a leading opposition figure and rights activist, Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja, was beaten up and tossed in the clink on Saturday in Manama. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-11 |
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