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Volunteers prepare food and drinks for people taking part in the pro-reform open sit-in in Maksha village north of the Bahraini capital Manama, 06 February 2012. Activist Fadeelah Mubarak and Canadian Nasser al-Ress who were both released on 06 February 2012 from detention after being charged with supporting the pro-reform protests joined tens of thousands of pro-reform protesters at the site of the week long open sit-in organized by leading opposition parties in Maksha village, which they dubbed ?Freedom Square?, in preparation to reclaim the former site of the 2011 pro-reform protests, Lulu Roundabout. Tension and the intensity of clashes with police have continued to rise in the small Gulf island ahead of the first anniversary for the pro-reform protests on 14 February 2012