Wednesday
Jan182012
Bahrain Feature: Tear Gas --- The Story Behind A Picture
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 16:59 | John Horne in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
We have been sent a video from Alquraiya, produced by an opposition group, giving more insight into the photograph we posted this morning of protesters in front of a blanket of tear gas, after a march was attacked by security forces. The footage of the extraordinary amount of tear gas used by police on defiant demonstrators again raises concerns over police tactics and the short- and long-term health risks of exposure to such a volume of tear gas.
At EA, we hear daily accounts from people in Bahrain who experience the tear gas fired in villages and residential areas and even inside homes, but what does that mean beyond their stories?
tagged Bahrain, Federal Laboratories, tear gas