Regime caves to portests with release body of 20 Year Old Murdered by Security Police

Bahrain releases body of slain protester, funeral held
5 March, 2013 – Al Akhbar

Several hundred people called for the king of Bahrain to be held responsible for the killing of protesters during a funeral Tuesday for Mahmoud al-Jaziri, a 20-year-old man shot in the head with a tear gas canister, witnesses said.

“Mourners are chanting ‘Down with King Hamad [al-Khalifa]’ and ‘hold him responsible for all the protesters killed and all the crimes committed,” Yousif al-Muhafda, deputy head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, wrote on Twitter.

The procession took place on the tiny island of Nabi Saleh.

The interior ministry released Jaziri’s body Tuesday after holding him for 12 days despite his family’s pleas to bury him.

Graphic photos taken at a morgue earlier Tuesday showed marks of the skull fracture that led to Jaziri’s death.

Riot police shot the projectile directly at his head at close range during a protest on 14 February 2013 marking the two year anniversary of Bahrain’s uprising. He succumbed to his wounds one week later, on February 21.

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