AhlulBayt News Agency

source : FNA
Friday

2 September 2011

7:30:00 PM
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Bahraini regime pressuring family of martyred teenager to give false testimony

A Bahraini opposition spokesman revealed on Saturday that the Manama regime has exerted excessive pressure on the family of a teenage protester who was killed by the Bahraini security forces earlier this week to give a false testimony to the court in a bid to exonerate the government from the crime.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Spokesman of Bahrain's February 14 Revolution Abdul Raouf al-Shayeb said that the Al-Khalifa regime has exerted growing pressure on the family of Ali Jawad as well as a number of other witnesses in the case and intimidated them into changing their testimony in the government's interest.

The 15-year old teenager died in Bahrain on Wednesday after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by the security forces during anti-government protests in Bahrain.

Witnesses said that the victim, identified as Ali Jawad, was hit in the head by a tear gas canister fired from close range.

Meantime, Bahrain's interior ministry on Friday denied that police shot dead teenage protesters and in a mocking move offered a $26 500 reward for information about his killers.

Al Shayeb said that the reward shows that the regime is trying to change the realities in the case.

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