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Crackdown reins in Bahrain activists
[Al Jazeera] The once massive pro-democracy protests in Bahrain have been reduced to small festivities between youth and police in predominantly Shia Mohammedan areas.Security forces have launched a crackdown on protesters marked by beatings and sweeping arrests. Nearly 1,000 demonstrators have been imprisoned, among them doctors, artists and lawyers. The UN High Commissioner for Human rights Navi Pillay says severe torture is being used against prisoners, and he is calling on the Bahraini government to stop intimidating and harassing human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... defenders and political activists. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-07 |
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