Bahrainis rage at regime after female activists arrested

Bahrainis have once again rallied against the Aal-e Khalifah regime’s crackdown on activists in the tiny Persian Gulf island State.

According to Press TV, the protesters marched in the villages of Abu Saiba’, Nuwaidrat, and Eker, near the capital Manama in the early hours of Saturday.

They vented their anger at the ruling regime’s mistreatment of political prisoners, whose numbers have snowballed since the 2011 popular uprising.

The demonstrators stressed that the raging crackdown on dissent will not deter them from pursuing their legitimate rights. They also called for the release of all political prisoners, who have been tried in military courts.

The regime forces fired teargas to disperse the peaceful protesters in Nuwaidrat and Eker among others.

Zakih Issa al-Barboury, 28, and Fatima Daoud Hassan, 19, were the latest activists arrested during raids on their homes in Nuwaidrat. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) has described their detentions as arbitrary and unlawful. The reasons for the arrests were not immediately clear.

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