Human Rights and the Will to be free

Manama, Bahrain - It was a scene the Bahraini government is hoping to avoid: Hundreds of young protesters clashing with riot police and chanting slogans against next month’s Bahrain Grand Prix, a race which many officials here describe as a watershed for the country’s struggling economy.

The demonstration on Saturday night attracted a small crowd, according to witnesses, and it drew a large response from the police, which deployed more than two dozen SUVs and armoured vehicles to Sitra. Protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at them, and quickly dispersed after a volley of tear gas.

At least three people were arrested, and a woman was injured after being hit by a tear gas canister.

Last year’s grand prix was canceled because of widespread unrest in Bahrain, and this year’s race has become a battleground. The opposition is lobbying Formula One to cancel the race as a rebuke to the ongoing abuses committed by Bahraini security forces.

“No Formula One without human rights” was a popular slogan on Saturday. Another chant warned the race’s main backer, crown prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, that “your project will not succeed”

LONDON — British authorities have charged a London-based businessman with bribing officials at Bahrain’s state-owned aluminum manufacturer, including a prominent member of the country’s royal family.

[Isa bin Ali al-Khalifa, son-in-law of Bahrain’s prime minister =  corruption in the regime]

شكراً يا آل خليفة ، شكرا لكم على تشويه سمعة البلاد ، شكراً على القمع ، شكراً على الدبابات ، شكراً على ضربكم للإقتصاد The collapse of the economy of Bahrain و...

Tighten the economic screws on the regime........When ALL Bahrainis feel the pressure, the time of the Khalifas will be over!