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The March of loyalty to martyrs (Arabic: مسيرة الوفاء للشهداء masīra al-wafāʾ ash-shuhadāʾ) was a protest on 22 February 2011 in Manama, Bahrain.Tens of thousands participated in the protest, one of the largest in the Bahraini uprising.
The Bahrain government attempted to block information from citizen reporters and sites used by protesters. The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said that Bahraini authorities were blocking a Facebook group being used for planned protests on 14 February, and that its own website had been blocked for many years. [335]
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 ...
On 21 February, the Bahrain News Agency, a branch of Bahrain's Ministry of Culture and Information, claimed that 300,000 Bahraini residents (more than fifty percent of the local population; Bahrain local population is 568,000), [23] has gathered in the grounds opposite Al Fateh Mosque in Manama to support the ruling monarchy. [24]
Protesters camped out in front of the Pearl Roundabout days before it was torn down. The Gulf Cooperation Council or GCC Roundabout, known as Pearl Roundabout or Lulu Roundabout (Arabic: دوار اللؤلؤ(ة) Dawwār al-luʾluʾ(ah), "Roundabout of the pearl(s)"), was a roundabout located near the financial district of Manama, Bahrain.
Before the start of protests, the cabinet of Bahrain had introduced a number of economic and political concessions. The protests started with a sit-in in solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 in the vicinity of the Egyptian embassy in the capital Manama ten days before the Day of Rage. On the eve of 14 February, security forces ...
The protests initially sought greater political freedom and equality for the majority Shia population, [18] and expanded to a call to end the monarchy of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [19] following a deadly night raid on 17 February 2011 against protesters at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama.
The 2019 protests in Bahrain was mass protests and civil unrest and popular disturbances that culminated into an uprising and violent demonstrations after mass protests against the executions by the authorities of 2 Shia men for terrorism-related charges in Bahrain in July 2019.