A young Bahraini protester has been martyred as a result of injuries sustained during a protest in the northern village of Markh.<\/p>\n
Bahrain\u2019s main opposition group, al-Wefaq, said in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday that Fadhil Abbas Muslim, a 19 year old, \u201cwas martyred today due to severe wounds sustained from live ammunition\u201d when security forces opened fire on protesters two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
It added that Abbas Muslim \u201cwas denied visits by family at the hospital.\u201d On January 24, thousands of anti-regime protesters held a demonstration in the northeastern village of Sitra.<\/p>\n The participants in the protest, named the People\u2019s Cause, called on Bahraini authorities to stop suppressing Shia Muslims and denying their rights. They also slammed the ruling Al Khalifa regime for its crackdown on anti-regime protests, demanding freedom for the country\u2019s political prisoners.<\/p>\n Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have staged numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain calling for the Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.<\/p>\n
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![\n<\/a><\/p>\nOn January 24, thousands of anti-regime protesters held a demonstration in the northeastern village of Sitra.<\/p>\nThe participants in the protest, named the People\u2019s Cause, called on Bahraini authorities to stop suppressing Shia Muslims and denying their rights. They also slammed the ruling Al Khalifa regime for its crackdown on anti-regime protests, demanding freedom for the country\u2019s political prisoners.<\/p>\nSince mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have staged numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain calling for the Al Khalifa family to relinquish power.<\/p>\nAccording to\u00a0local<\/a>\u00a0sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested during the demonstrations.<\/p>\nInternational human rights organizations have repeatedly slammed the Manama regime for the excessive force it uses against peaceful protests.<\/p>\nPhysicians for Human Rights says\u00a0doctors<\/a>\u00a0and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they had \u201cevidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police\u201d in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Bahraini protester has been martyred as a result of injuries sustained during a protest in the northern village of Markh. Bahrain\u2019s main opposition group, al-Wefaq, said in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday that Fadhil Abbas Muslim, a 19 year old, \u201cwas martyred today due to severe wounds sustained from live ammunition\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[54,71,70],"class_list":["post-7521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news","tag-bahrain-2","tag-brutality","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Bahrain+protests+20.jpg\"){kind=link}