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A woman runs for cover from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes with protesters, who tried to reach Salmaniya hospital to get the dead body of Mahmud al-Jaziri, on Feb. 25, 2013 in the village of Zinj, a suburb of Manama, Bahrain.
Hasan Jamali / AP
Bahraini boys look at an anti-government protester, unseen, as he adds fuel to old furniture being set on fire in a street in Malkiya on Feb. 26, 2013.
Protests were held in opposition-heavy villages across Bahrain on Tuesday as demonstrators demanded that the government release the body of a 20-year-old who died last week from injuries sustained during earlier clashes with police.
Mahmud al-Jaziri succumbed to his wounds after he was shot during demonstrations commemorating the second anniversary of the Gulf kingdom’s 2011 uprising.
The protesters are calling for al-Jaziri's body to be released for burial.
Editor's note: The Bahraini government disputes the demonstrators' claims, and says the body was released on Feb. 22.
-- Reporting from The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse
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"Mahmud al-Jaziri succumbed to his wounds after he was shot during demonstrations commemorating the second anniversary of the Gulf kingdom’s 2011 uprising."
Even for getting the body of one shot and injured, one needs to demonstrate!
What a religion of "love" and "peace"!
Here Sunni Islamic extremists invented, funded and exported by oil rich Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and other Sunni Arab League nations are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert days of hating and killing.
Assad is one of the best ME Muslim leader. Why can’t the Sunnis tolerate him?
If Assad is not acceptable to Sunnis, Shiites of Bahrain should overthrow their autocratic, corrupt and despotic Sunni ruler.
Sunnis can't have one-way traffic always in Muslim and non-Muslim nations.
Good thing the author explained the photo.
I mistook the woman running for cover with a Hefty Cinch-Sack left on the porch on garbage day.
My apologies ma'am.
I dont understand why they dont just release the body. Perhaps i am ignorant on customs or government policies of Bahrain. Unless they are trying to hide the injuries he sustained which could imply that police deliberately beat him to death.
I dont know, probably just my conspiracy mind going off again.