Bahrainis rally over protester’s body

Bahrainis have staged demonstrations to protest against the authorities’ refusal to hand over the body of a protester martyred by regime forces last week.

Scores of Bahrainis took to the streets in Sanabis, Samaheej and Sitra on Tuesday to urge the authorities to hand over the body of Mahmood Isa Al Jaziri.
The 20-year-old protester was hit in the head by a tear gas canister on February 14 after security forces attacked anti-regime demonstrators in Nabi Saleh, south of Manama, as they were marking the second anniversary of the uprising.
According to Bahrain’s main opposition bloc al-Wefaq, Jaziri died in the hospital on February 22 after a week in a coma.
At least three Bahrainis, including a woman, were martyred in Manama’s crackdown on protests, marking the second anniversary of the uprising in the Persian Gulf state.
Scores have been martyred, many of them under torture while in custody, and thousands more detained since the popular uprising in Bahrain began.