Bahraini Opposition Calls for Renewed Action After BICI

Bahraini Opposition Calls for Renewed Action After BICI
The POMED Wire – November 10 – by Todd

According to the Bahrain Freedom Movement website, the 14th February Youth have called for a rejuvenation of popular protests on November 23, the day the BICI report will be released. The website also asserts that many pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia have been arrested on suspicion of taking part in anti-regime chanting in Mecca. Meanwhile, Ashwaq al-Maqabi, a 17-year-old Bahraini girl who was being treated for complications related to sickle cell anemia, was rearrested in Salmaniyya hospital and returned to prison. She was originally convicted for taking part in a protest at Bahrain’s City Center, and Bahrain’s Ministry of Information tweeted that “after the end of treatment according to [al-Maqabi’s] doctor she was taken to female prison to serve her sentence & she is under health supervision.”

Additionally, Eli Lake examines the assertion that Bahrain’s primary opposition party, al-Wefaq, is a “pawn of Iran,” saying that Jasim Husain, a leading opposition figure in Bahrain, “does not look like a pawn of Iran’s mullahs… [and] doesn’t sound like a pawn of Iran’s mullahs either. “ …source