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The BBC reported that the police's brutal handling of the protests had turned Bahrain into 'island of fear'. [157] By the end of the month, another four had died bringing the number of deaths in the month to nineteen. [10]: 429–31 Bahrain TV ran a campaign to name, punish and shame those who took part in the protest movement.
Protesters gathering at Pearl Roundabout for the first time on 15 February. Police retreated from Pearl Roundabout to the northern area close to Bahrain City Centre. The events were one of a string of protests that occurred across the Arab world following the self-immolation and eventual death of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia, the majority Shia population of Bahrain, as well as some Sunni ...
Bahrain army forces at a village entrance on 29 March. Peaceful protests, including one pro-government rally, [32] continued throughout February [33] [34] and the first half of March, [35] [36] [37] and drew tens of thousands of participants. On 8 March, unsatisfied by the government response, a coalition of three hard-line Shia groups called ...
By the evening, thousands of demonstrators had congregated at the main hospital, [2]: 75 where records showed 41 admissions related to the protests on 17 February. Bahrain's Minister of Health appeared on state television and claimed that the situation at the main hospital was calm, and there were only seven minor injuries. [2]: 173
Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet, is in the midst of a decadelong crackdown on all dissent following the Arab Spring protests, which saw the island’s Shiite majority and ...
Death of an Emirati policeman, Tariq al-Shehi, made it clear that the foreign troops were in fact involved in suppressing protests. [26] According to Nuruzzaman, the most important factor leading to Saudi's intervention in Bahrain, [32] is "the domino effect of Bahrain's fall into Shia hands".
The government came down hard on protests in 2011 when demonstrators, many from the Shi'ite majority, rose up to demand the downfall of Bahrain's monarchy in the Arab Spring.
Haq Movement was founded and utilized street protests to seek change instead of bringing change within the parliament. The period between 2007 and 2010 saw sporadic protests which were followed by large arrests. The state of human rights in Bahrain was criticized in the period between 1975 and 2001. Following 2001 reforms, human rights improved ...