Bahrain Video and Photo Special: Friday's "Free Alkhawaja Protests"
Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 6:31
Scott Lucas in Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, Bahrain, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran, Nabeel Rajab

A visual round-up of the day's marches and rallies in Bahrain for detained hunger striker Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, from the thousands who gathered across the island to the security forces' attempts to disperse the protests and prevent demonstrators from reaching Pearl Roundabout, the symbolic centre of the challenge to the regime:

Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, in the march in Jidhafs

Police Try to Prevent Marchers Reaching Pearl Roundabout

A Protester Defies Water Cannon

Tear Gas in Sanabis

A Tear Gas Canister Explodes in Manama

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