al khalifa charades, misdirection, misinformation and blaming the victims, against a backdrop of daily torture, detentions and collective punishments

Bahrain steps up crackdown on demos
shiapost – August 18, 2011

The Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have intensified their brutal crackdown on peaceful anti-government protesters across the Persian Gulf sheikhdom.

The Bahraini regime forces clashed with protesters in several areas late on Wednesday.

According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested during the harsh government clampdown on peaceful demonstrations since mid-February.

On Tuesday, Vice President of the Bahrain Teachers Association (BTA) Jalila al-Salman was hospitalized with chest pains following a 10-day hunger strike to protest her continuing torture and ill treatment while in custody.

The Bahraini regime fired some 14 university teachers for taking part in demonstrations against the ruling Al Khalifa family on Saturday.

Since the beginning of the revolution in Bahrain, large numbers of anti-government protesters have poured into streets across the nation to demand more rights, freedom and wide-ranging political reforms. …more