(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Shouting "We want freedom" and waving Bahraini flags and banners that read "No to dialogue", protesters marched along Budaiya highway on Friday as helicopters from the security forces buzzed overhead.
Some began to shout "Down, down, Hamad" in the Friday march, which organizers entitled "The people are the source of authority".
King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa on Thursday approved parliamentary reforms submitted by a state-appointed body dialogue commission.
The process "reflects the determination [of the participants] to rise above the latest incidents," King Hamad said in a televised speech on Thursday.
"We have ordered the executive and legislative authorities to take the necessary measures to approve the agreements," he said after receiving a report by the state-appointed National Dialogue, set up to address grievances after the government crackdown.
The changes grant more powers of scrutiny to the elected lower house of parliament but preserve the dominance of the upper house appointed by the royal elite.
Wefaq, the largest opposition group, walked out of the dialogue several weeks ago and now members said they felt their actions were justified after the body's results were announced.
"The government thought the results were great. We thought they were nothing," Sayed al-Mousawi, a Wefaq leader, said. "There's no fully elected government, no reforms to the voting system. It's a one-sided deal."
Protesters on Friday had hoped to stage a protest outside the US embassy in Manama ahead of their evening march.
But riot police set up several checkpoints to block entrance to the area.
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