Affrontements à المنامة Manama – 20 décembre 2011

Bahraini police disperse Shiite protest

afp

20 12 2011

ABU SAIBA, Bahrain — Bahraini riot police on Tuesday dispersed several hundred Shiite demonstrators who gathered on a highway leading to Manama in one of increasingly frequent anti-regime protests.

Police fired tear gas at protesters who flocked to the Budaiya highway from the village of Abu Saiba, west of Manama, an AFP journalist reported.

The protest began following a memorial service for Shiite youth Ahmed Radi al-Qassab, who was run over by a car while allegedly crossing the highway to escape a riot-police patrol last week.

Police beat protesters back into the village and fired tear gas at the cemetery and inside the village as some youngsters hurled stones at security forces. Read more…