At least twenty people were injured during demonstrations between yesterday and today in Bahrain, which have involved thousands of people to ask for a new government to improve their living conditions. Muhammad al Maskati activist, president of the Bahraini Youth Association for Human Rights, told Efe by telephone that "the police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up protests in which at least 20 people have been wounds.
" Al Maskati said today they have organized demonstrations in 16 towns of the kingdom, including Manama, who have passed in the midst of a huge police deployment. "In Manama, the majority of streets were closed, many students have not gone to school and some shops have closed," said the activist, who noted that so far has not been arrested.
Al Maskati said that the demonstrators demanding an end to the violations of human rights in the country, the reform of the Constitution and a new government and prime minister, as the present, Prince Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, "it takes forty years power. " "People want improved living conditions and wage increases," said the activist.
Al Maskati stressed that the "peaceful protests, which began yesterday in Karzakan area have been organized through online social networks like Facebook. Popular protests have spread to several Arab countries like Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain after the triumph of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have finished with the regimes of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine ben Ali. 
" Al Maskati said today they have organized demonstrations in 16 towns of the kingdom, including Manama, who have passed in the midst of a huge police deployment. "In Manama, the majority of streets were closed, many students have not gone to school and some shops have closed," said the activist, who noted that so far has not been arrested.
Al Maskati said that the demonstrators demanding an end to the violations of human rights in the country, the reform of the Constitution and a new government and prime minister, as the present, Prince Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, "it takes forty years power. " "People want improved living conditions and wage increases," said the activist.
Al Maskati stressed that the "peaceful protests, which began yesterday in Karzakan area have been organized through online social networks like Facebook. Popular protests have spread to several Arab countries like Yemen, Iraq and Bahrain after the triumph of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have finished with the regimes of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and Zine el Abidine ben Ali.
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