Bahrain: anti-government protests continue despite brutal crackdown (big photo gallery)
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- Feb 17, 2011
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People gather to mourn and pray for demonstrators who were injured after riot police stormed an anti-government protest camp, outside the Salmaniya hospital where the casualties were sent to, in Manama February 17, 2011.
Family members of the protester who was killed this morning during police clashes mourn at a hospital after receiving news of his death in the Bahraini capital of Manama.
More photos below (REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed).
Warning: graphic content.
The blood of a wounded Bahrain
citizen is seen during clashes with policemen in Manama
February 14, 2010. Small-scale clashes erupted in two Bahraini
villages as security forces tightened their grip on Shi’ite
communities for Monday’s “Day of Rage” protests inspired by
upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia. Helicopters circled over the
capital Manama, where protesters were expected to gather in the
afternoon, and police cars stepped up their presence in Shi’ite
villages, breaking up one protest with teargas and rubber
bullets. At least 14 people were injured in clashes overnight
and on Monday.
People visit a family member who was
injured after riot police stormed an anti-government protest
camp, at the Salmaniya hospital in Manama February 17, 2011.
People carry the body of a protester
killed during a protest on Monday, as they gather at a Shi’ite
village cemetery in Sanabis, west of Bahraini capital Manama,
February 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Hamad I
Mohammed)
Protesters set up tents at the Pearl
Roundabout, a famous landmark of Bahrain, in the heart of its
capital Manama February 15, 2011.
A protester collapses after inhaling
tear gas during a demonstration in Manama February 14, 2011.
Bahraini police fired teargas and rubber bullets to break up
protests on Monday in Shi’ite villages that ring the capital
Manama, dampening a “Day of Rage” stimulated by popular
upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia.
Military tanks are seen on the road
to the Pearl Roundabout in Manama February 17, 2011.
Bahraini anti-government protesters
take a rest from demonstrations in central Manama, February 16,
2011. Protesters in Bahrain, emboldened by revolts that have
toppled Arab rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, poured into the
centre of the capital on Wednesday to mourn a demonstrator
killed in clashes with security forces.
Riot police move to disperse a
protest in a Shi’ite village near Manama February 14, 2011.
Protesters sit at a temporary media
center area off the Pearl Roundabout, a famous landmark of
Bahrain, in the heart of its capital Manama, February 15, 2011.
(REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed)
Protesters serve coffee and tea at
the Pearl Roundabout, a famous landmark of Bahrain, in the
heart of its capital Manama February 15, 2011.
Protesters stand at the base of the
Pearl Roundabout in the Bahraini capital of Manama, February
15, 2011.
Women pray for protesters who were
injured after riot police stormed an anti-government protest
camp, outside the Salmaniya hospital where the casualties were
sent to, in Manama February 17, 2011.