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Teargas, birdshot fired at protesters in Bahrain<\/strong>
\n14 August, 2013 – Gulf Times<\/p>\n

Reuters\/Manama – Bahraini police fired teargas and birdshot to disperse scattered protests across the country yesterday, as Shia Muslims responded to a call by online activists for pro-democracy demonstrations.<\/p>\n

The main opposition group said around 60 rallies were held in 40 locations, in an upsurge of a two-and-a-half-year-old campaign for more democracy in the nation of 1.25mn people.<\/p>\n

The US temporarily closed its embassy and Bahrani authorities tightened security after opposition figures used social media to call for rallies.<\/p>\n

Small protests passed off peacefully across Bahrain earlier in the day, witnesses and activists said, but demonstrators and riot police clashed in some areas as evening fell.<\/p>\n

Security forces converged on the Al Seef district of Manama after activists used Twitter to encourage demonstrators to gather there, in defiance of a blanket ban on protests in the capital.<\/p>\n

In a village west of Manama, a standoff deteriorated into a clash between police on one side of a barbed wire fence they had erected overnight and about 300 demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans on the other.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said police charged the crowd, firing birdshot and teargas. Similar clashes occurred in other Shia villages where demonstrators threw fire-bombs at police.<\/p>\n

The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights activist group said at least 10 people suffered from teargas inhalation or were wounded by birdshot. A spokesman for the main opposition Al Wefaq Society said two people were in a serious condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the campaign of intimidation and surrounding villages with barbed wire, thousands of people turned up for the protests,\u201d said Sayed Yousif al-Muhafda of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights.<\/p>\n

The interior ministry reported that an Asian worker had been injured by a fire-bomb as he tried to open a road blocked by protesters in a village south of Manama, and said burning tyres had been used to block a main road in Muharraq to the northeast.<\/p>\n

It described the use of fire-bombs and roadblocks as \u201cterrorism\u201d, for which new laws passed this month allow tougher penalties including longer prison terms and the stripping of Bahraini nationality.<\/p>\n

Police arrested a woman driver and other occupants of her car, saying she had tried to run over a policeman at a roadblock.<\/p>\n

The concerted new pro-democracy push is being driven by \u201cTamarod\u201d (Rebellion), a loose association of opposition activists who coalesced in early July.<\/p>\n

Tamarrod is named after the Egyptian movement that helped muster massive protests against president Mohamed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood before the military removed the country\u2019s first freely-elected leader on July 3. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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