Bahrain regime publishes list of 20 wanted for “terrorism”

Bahrain publishes list of 20 wanted for “terrorist” attacks
16 May, 2012 – Lebanon Now

Bahrain released on Wednesday a list of names of 20 people wanted by the authorities over “terrorist bombings” in which policemen and civilians were wounded, state news agency BNA reported.

Investigation has shown that the 20 “committed terrorist crimes by making and using homemade bombs and carrying out criminal acts which have caused injuries among civilians and policemen and have terrorized citizens and residents,” BNA said.

The list, which BNA said was published with the consent of the attorney general to facilitate their arrest, urged all citizens to provide authorities with information on the 20 accused.

The statement did not specify which “bombings” it was referring to. But Bahraini authorities repeatedly denounce what they say are “terrorist acts” against security forces trying to disperse Shia-led protests in the kingdom.

On May 5, the Interior Ministry said four policemen were wounded in a “terror blast” in a Shia village.

A similar explosion in another Shia-populated village also left four policemen wounded in April.

The tiny Gulf kingdom’s Shia majority claim marginalization and disenfranchisement by the Sunni regime, and have for months been calling for political and social reforms.

Amnesty International says around 60 people have been killed since the anti-regime protests first erupted in February 2011.

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