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April 23, 2012

Anti-Government Bahraini Protester Dies As Demonstrations Continue 
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Formula One held its Grand Prix auto race in Bahrain Sunday amid large
pro-democracy protests against the U.S.-backed Bahraini government.
Activists said police used teargas to stop demonstrations in several
Shi'ite villages around Manama after the race. A team working for
Britain's Channel 4 television was arrested and their driver was
reportedly assaulted by police. On Saturday, an activist named Salah
Abbas Habib was killed, reportedly after being beaten by police. The
Bahraini government has refused to release his body to his family.

Hadi Al Mousawi, Bahraini human rights activist: "They don't want to
hand over the body today, because there would have been two events,
Formula one and funeral one, they don't want the attention of the world
diverted because the turnout will be huge."

 

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