{"id":4159,"date":"2011-12-07T19:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2011-12-07T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:59:30","slug":"injuries-as-bahrain-police-attack-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4159","title":{"rendered":"Injuries as Bahrain police ‘attack’ protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Injuries as Bahrain police ‘attack’ protest<\/strong>
\nProtesters say security forces fired rubber bullets at demonstrators attempting to take back site of Pearl roundabout.
\n07 Dec 2011 – Al Jazeera<\/p>\n

Manama’s landmark Pearl Roundabout was the focal point of Bahrain’s protests [Ben Piven\/Al Jazeera]<\/p>\n

Protesters in Bahrain say police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators who were trying to take back the site of the Pearl roundabout – the symbol of the protest movement that erupted in February.<\/p>\n

Bahrainis were marking Ashoura, a day of mourning for Shia Muslims, when the decision was made on Wednesday to move towards the roundabout. Several people are said to have been injured.<\/p>\n

Bahrain’s government tore down the Pearl Roundabout monument in the centre of the capital, Manama, after it became the rallying point for anti-government demonstrations. Many protesters were killed or arrested, but the movement has continued to simmer.<\/p>\n

Mohammed al-Maskati, president of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, told Al Jazeera on the phone from Manama that hundreds of people marched to the site from the village of Sanabis.<\/p>\n

When the protesters got close to the site of the former roundabout, security forces reportedly fired tear gas and rubber bullets.<\/p>\n

“There are a lot of injuries. [People are] trying to transfer them to the closest houses to treat them, there are nurses who are volunteers,” he said.<\/p>\n

Fatal injury<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, a woman who was seriously hurt during a recent anti-government protest in the Gulf kingdom died of her injuries, according to the ministry of health.<\/p>\n

The ministry’s statement said the 27-year-old woman sustained head injuries during “rioting” last month in a Shia village near the capital. She died in a hospital early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bahraini rights groups say she was fatally injured in the head by a metal rod during a November protest and that security forces were responsible for her death.<\/p>\n

More than 35 people have died in clashes and protest-related violence since February when the pro-democracy protesters, many of them Shia, started campaigning for greater rights in the Sunni-ruled Bahrain. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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