29-03-2024 01:10 AM Jerusalem Timing

Bahrain Regime Resumes Crackdown on Protesters

Bahrain Regime Resumes Crackdown on Protesters

Once again regime forces attack peaceful pro-democracy protesters in the villages of Dair and Bani Jamrah northwest of the country, arresting several people including children.

Once again regime forces attack peaceful pro-democracy protesters in the villages of Dair and Bani Jamrah northwest of the country, arresting several people including children.


As they condemned the brutal crackdown against demonstrators, protesters chanted anti-regime slogans, demanding the downfall of the Al Khalifa regime and the release of political prisoners.


Meanwhile, a Bahraini military court has sentenced a policeman to 12 years in prison for defecting from the police and joining the protesters in February 2011.

Ali al-Ghanami, a 25-year-old junior police officer, left the police force following a deadly crackdown on peaceful protesters massing in the capital, Manama, where two protesters were killed and more than a hundred were injured.

A day earlier, the court of cassation has overturned a ruling by the court of appeals that had sentenced two anti-government protesters to execution.


Monday's decision will require the court of appeals to re-examine the case and issue a new verdict for the two protesters earlier sentenced to death, and five others who had been sentenced to life in prison.
The defendants, two of whom were tried in absentia, were accused of "deliberately killing" two policemen in March.


According to court documents, the accused hit Kashef Ahmad Manzoor and Mohammad Farouq Abdul Samad, both working for the interior ministry at the time, with large vans. The defendants are then said to have run over the officers in an open area near Manama's Pearl Roundabout.


Since the beginning of the popular uprising in February 2011, dozens of people have been martyred and thousands more have been arrested and put in jail or fired from their jobs in Bahrain.

In addition, many health workers, teachers, opposition figures and human rights activists in Bahrain are still facing trial or serving prison terms over participation in anti-government demonstrations.