(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Demonstrators took to the streets of the village of Muqsha in the west of the capital Manama on Saturday.
Regime forces used Molotov cocktails to disperse the protesters.
Meanwhile, state media announced on Saturday that Bahraini authorities had dropped charges relating to freedom of expression against “343 individual suspects in 34 cases” linked to anti-regime demonstrations in February and March.
Bahrain's Prosecutor General Ali al-Bouainain said some of the 343 individuals indicted would still be prosecuted over other charges “including acts of violence and sabotage.”
The prosecutor general had also been given documents from the interior ministry about “complaints of torture and bad treatment” by the ministry agents against protesters, according to state media.
However, Matar Matar, an official within the main opposition group, al-Wefaq, criticized the announcement, saying that it is “a media show, not linked to the application of the recommendations of the independent commission of inquiry.”
The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry issued a report on November 23, saying that the Manama regime had used “excessive force, including the extraction of forced confessions against detainees,” in their efforts to handle demonstrations in the country.
Dozens of people have been killed and thousands more have been arrested or fired from their jobs in Bahrain since the beginning of the uprising in February.
On Wednesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Bahraini authorities to “urgently take confidence-building measures, including unconditionally releasing those who were convicted in military tribunals or are still awaiting trial for merely exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly.”
“We continue to receive reports of the repression of small protests in Bahrain, and although some security officials have reportedly been arrested, we have yet to see any prosecution of security forces for civilian deaths and injuries,” Pillay said.
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