Bahrainis protest against Al Khalifah’s crackdown on dissidents

Bahraini people have held a protest to condemn the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents.

Bahraini people have held a protest to condemn the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents.

The protesters took to the streets in the northern villages of Abu Saiba and Shakhora, west of the capital Manama, on Friday evening and shouted anti-regime slogans.

Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held demonstrations in Bahrain on an almost daily basis ever since a popular uprising began in the country in mid-February 2011. They are demanding that the Al Khalifah regime relinquish power and allow a just system representing all Bahrainis to be established.

Manama has gone to great lengths to clamp down on any sign of dissent. On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were deployed to assist Bahrain in its crackdown.

Scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of the Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown.