Photo: Protestors Sit-In Facing Riot Police
Date: 14th March 2013
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses its grave concern over many reports and cases received revealing severe human rights violations and excessive use of force across the villages and cities of Bahrain.
The 14th Feb Youth Collation called for civil disobedience and multiple protests across Bahrain on the 2nd anniversary of the foreign GCC Peninsula Shield occupying Bahrain, which came mainly from Saudi Arabia and the UAE aiming to squash the pro-democracy movement in 2011. Those forces are still in Bahrain, famously occupying the area that once was the pearl roundabout before it was demolished in March 2011.
Photo: Educational Institution “Al-Khamees School” Was Extensively Teargased
The call for wide spread protests has put the Bahrain Authorities under alert and the presence of police forces were allocated across the country. Since early in the morning, many crowded villages were collectively punished with a large amount of teargas. Places including mosques, schools (Khamis School) and construction sites (Juffair constructions) were also teargased causing suffocation to school children and migrant workers.
Protesters have established roadblocks of their own to prevent riot police from driving at high speed into the villages. This YouTube video taken today (14th March 2013) is an example of how the police use armored vehicles to run over protesters ().