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Thursday 19 January 2017 - 14:16
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Anti-regime demo turns violent in Bahrain amid fears of more killings



Press TV- Police and anti-regime protesters have clashed in the Bahraini village of Sanabis amid reports saying that more activists are facing execution in the kingdom.

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Sanabis on Wednesday, holding placards and chanting slogans against the Al Khalifah dynasty.



The Bahraini police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters.

The march came after Amnesty International said two Bahraini men were at the imminent risk of execution.

The death sentences against Mohamed Ramadhan Issa Ali Hussain and Hussain Ali Moosa Hussain Mohamed were upheld by Bahrains Court of Cassation in November 2015 and the verdicts were passed to the country's king, the UK-based rights organization said.

They were accused of killing a policeman in a bomb explosion in the village of al- Dair in February 2014.

Amnesty international said the two mens trial was grossly unfair and relied on "forced confessions while the pair did not have access to their lawyers.

On January 15, Bahrain carried out its first execution after a more thansix-year hiatus.

The executionsof Shia activistsSami Mushaima, Abbas Jamil Tahir al-Sami and Ali Abdulshahid al-Singace came after the Court of Cassation upheld the death penalties given to the trio over allegations of killing a member of Emirati forces in al-Daih in March 2014. The defendants had denied the charges.

Meanwhile, a video showing Bahrain using hooligans to suppress dissent has gone viral.

Initially released in April 2012, the video shows hooligans ransacking a store while Bahraini security forces look on and even filmthe incident without tryingto stop the raid.

Bahrain, hometo the USNavy's 5thFleet, has been rocked by a wave of anti-regime demonstrations since the popular uprising began in the country in February 2011.

Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others wounded or detained amid Manamas crackdown on dissent and widespread discrimination against the countrys Shia majority.

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