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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nYoung Bahraini Dies of Wounds<\/strong> TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A young Bahraini prisoner died of wounds he suffered during a police operation to detain him as the main political opposition group said the man died as a result of torture during his detention. A ministry statement said Sunday that Fadel Abbas Musalem, 20, had been taken to hospital after being “wounded in the head” on January 8 when police tried to arrest him in a village near the capital Manama.<\/p>\n It added that police acted in “legitimate defence” when they fired on a car carrying Musalem and another man when it kept driving towards security forces despite warning shots.<\/p>\n The other man was also arrested.<\/p>\n Musallem was part of a group suspected of “involvement in smuggling weapons and explosives and in terrorist acts”, the ministry added.<\/p>\n But the main Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq said Musallem had been tortured “savagely”, AFP reported.<\/p>\n It said in a statement that besides a wound to his head, his body had signs of “bruises on his back, around the neck and on his face”.<\/p>\n His lip had also been cut and he had a “deep wound to the right shoulder”, Al-Wefaq said.<\/p>\n Thousands of people attended his funeral on Sunday in Daraz, a Shiite village near Manama, chanting anti-government slogans, witnesses said.<\/p>\n Security forces later intervened when “saboteurs threw Molotov cocktails at them and closed a main road”, the interior ministry said on Twitter.<\/p>\n Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have staged numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n The demonstrations were dispersed in mid-March in a deadly crackdown helped by security forces from neighbouring Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Demonstrators frequently clash with security forces in villages outside the capital.
\n27 January, 2014 – Tasnim<\/p>\n
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