Thousands of protesters have again Tuesday, February 1 market in the streets of Manama, affirming the unity of the small kingdom of Bahrain, where Shia and Sunni communities coexist. Since February 14, protests demanding political change in this archipelago predominantly Shiite dynasty ruled by a Sunni.
The opposition, dominated by Shiite formations, has so far refused to initiate a national dialogue proposed by King Hamad Al-Khalifa Benissa, demanding the resignation in advance of any government. Protesters camped for days on the Place de la Perle, in central Manama, have requirements and want more drastic fall of the dynasty of Al-Khalifa.
This line Sunni kingdom for over two hundred years in the kingdom, which now has 1.2 million people, half of whom are foreigners. The Aboriginal population is predominantly Shiite. "We are all brothers, Sunnis and Shiites," chanted the demonstrators, mostly Shiites, who marched from the district Salmaniah toward the center of Manama.
Women in black veils marched on one side of the road, and the other men, according to a journalist from the. "We march to affirm the unity between Shiites and Sunnis in Bahrain," said Sheikh Mohammed Al-Habib Muqdad, one of 25 activists accused of terrorism and recently pardoned by the king.
His trial and that of 24 other defendants, including two being tried in absentia, was opened in October, and Amnesty International had asked the authorities diligentent investigate the reported torture of the accused. One of them, Al-Singace Abdeljalil, image of the hard wing of the Shiite opposition, warned Tuesday that "the blood [could] run again if the plan ignored [ed] the requirements of the people" .
Member of Haq, banned from training the Shiite opposition, suffering from paralysis of the legs due to polio, Al-Singace Abdeljalil was imprisoned in August after a visit to London and accused of terrorism. He denounced the mistreatment he suffered while in detention. "I was placed in solitary confinement in a cell for forty-five days.
I was deprived of my glasses and my crutches, except to go to the toilet," he told the, referring also forced deprivation of sleep. "Others have suffered far worse treatment: they have been insults relating to their religion and sexual humiliation, and threatened to rape their wives and sisters," he said.
On 26 February the Secretary General of Haq, Hassan Machaimaa, called for his return to Manama to coordination between the opposition and demonstrators. For M. Al-Singace, initiatives recently announced by the monarchy come "too late and insufficient" to calm the demonstrators' demands that require a change of regime.
"I do not call it a dialogue," he said. "We were lied too long," he added. "There was an accumulation of years we have been deprived of our rights. Now the game is over." 
The opposition, dominated by Shiite formations, has so far refused to initiate a national dialogue proposed by King Hamad Al-Khalifa Benissa, demanding the resignation in advance of any government. Protesters camped for days on the Place de la Perle, in central Manama, have requirements and want more drastic fall of the dynasty of Al-Khalifa.
This line Sunni kingdom for over two hundred years in the kingdom, which now has 1.2 million people, half of whom are foreigners. The Aboriginal population is predominantly Shiite. "We are all brothers, Sunnis and Shiites," chanted the demonstrators, mostly Shiites, who marched from the district Salmaniah toward the center of Manama.
Women in black veils marched on one side of the road, and the other men, according to a journalist from the. "We march to affirm the unity between Shiites and Sunnis in Bahrain," said Sheikh Mohammed Al-Habib Muqdad, one of 25 activists accused of terrorism and recently pardoned by the king.
His trial and that of 24 other defendants, including two being tried in absentia, was opened in October, and Amnesty International had asked the authorities diligentent investigate the reported torture of the accused. One of them, Al-Singace Abdeljalil, image of the hard wing of the Shiite opposition, warned Tuesday that "the blood [could] run again if the plan ignored [ed] the requirements of the people" .
Member of Haq, banned from training the Shiite opposition, suffering from paralysis of the legs due to polio, Al-Singace Abdeljalil was imprisoned in August after a visit to London and accused of terrorism. He denounced the mistreatment he suffered while in detention. "I was placed in solitary confinement in a cell for forty-five days.
I was deprived of my glasses and my crutches, except to go to the toilet," he told the, referring also forced deprivation of sleep. "Others have suffered far worse treatment: they have been insults relating to their religion and sexual humiliation, and threatened to rape their wives and sisters," he said.
On 26 February the Secretary General of Haq, Hassan Machaimaa, called for his return to Manama to coordination between the opposition and demonstrators. For M. Al-Singace, initiatives recently announced by the monarchy come "too late and insufficient" to calm the demonstrators' demands that require a change of regime.
"I do not call it a dialogue," he said. "We were lied too long," he added. "There was an accumulation of years we have been deprived of our rights. Now the game is over."
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