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Bahrain Protests: Big Bahrain Democracy Protests

March 10, 2012 by · Comments Off on Bahrain Protests: Big Bahrain Democracy Protests 

Bahrain Protests: Big Bahrain Democracy Protests, Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated on Friday to demand democratic reforms, stepping up pressure on the U.S.-allied government with the biggest protest yet in a year of unrest.

They began marching along a highway near Manama in response to a call from leading Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, who urged people to renew their calls for greater democracy.

A live blog showed images of the protesters carrying banners denouncing “dictatorship” and demanding the release of detainees.

“We are here for the sake of our just demands that we cannot make concessions over and we stick with them because we have sacrificed for them,” Sheikh Isa Qassim said before the march in his weekly sermon in the Shiite village of Diraz.

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