(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - According to informed sources all Shia parliament members resigned and joined protesters in solidarity.
Three Shia protestors martyred in clashes with Bahraini police, sparking angry calls from young cyber-activists for regime change and a walkout of parliament by Bahrain's main Shia opposition bloc on Tuesday.
The events prompted King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa to express sorrow for the deaths, announce a ministerial probe and pledge to press ahead with reforms, in an address to the tiny Gulf state facing Iran across the Gulf that is ruled by his Sunni family.
The Islamic National Accord Association which has 18 seats in the 40-member house earlier announced it had "suspended its membership" in parliament over the killings of the Shia demonstrators.
The decision came because of "the deterioration in security and the negative and brutal way in which [authorities] dealt with the protesters, killing three of them," a bloc member, MP Khalil al-Marzooq, told AFP.
Tech-savvy Bahrainis have been using the Internet to issue social demands for the government to create jobs for a growing number of unemployed young people and to increase wages.
