Fired Bahraini workers demand jobs
\nshiapost | August 1, 2011<\/p>\n
Hundreds of workers in Bahrain have assembled outside the Ministry of Labor, demanding the government reinstate all unlawfully dismissed workers.<\/p>\n
The recently-fired workers, who have been sacked for taking part in anti-regime demonstrations, gathered in front of the ministry in the Bahraini capital, Manama, on Monday, Press TV reports.<\/p>\n
The Bahraini government and state-linked firms have fired more than two thousand workers since late March, according to Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, people in the southern Bahraini city of Sitra held a funeral service for a protester who was killed on Sunday when regime troops fired tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Saudi-backed security forces in Bahrain abducted a teenager from his home and tortured him for two hours.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates deployed military forces to Bahrain in mid-March to assist the Manama government in its brutal crackdown on the popular protests.<\/p>\n
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds more arrested in Bahrain since mid-February. Numerous protesters have also been detained and transferred to unknown locations during the brutal onslaught on protesters.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International has condemned the brutal crackdown on peaceful protests and detention of Bahraini protesters. …source<\/a><\/p>\n