(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - According to informed sources, a Mobile Telecommunications Company known as ZAIN has discharged 50 of its Shia employees from work due to their participation in protests against government discriminations.
Thousands gathered at a funeral procession for a man shot martyred when police and mourners clashed at an earlier funeral procession on Tuesday.
"We are requesting our rights in a peaceful way," said Bakr Akil, a 20 year-old university student, wearing a sheet stained with red ink that he said was a symbol of his willingness to sacrifice his life for freedom.
"I am optimistic that our big presence will achieve our demands," Akil said.
Women dressed in black abayas followed the procession with their own chants calling for peace and Bahraini unity.
Elsewhere in central Manama, witnesses say about 2,000 protestors had spent the night in tents at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout, similar to the number marching on the streets a day earlier.
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