Solidarity Center Report: On Second Anniversary of Uprising, Bahrainis Say Crisis Is Worse
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Tens of thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets on February 13, the second
anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, to protest the government’s lack of
progress in moving toward a more democratic political process. At a conference
in Washington, D.C., last week, Jalila Al-Salman (right), acting
president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Society, described the government’s
wide-scale attacks on teachers, their organizations and the students who have
sought to exercise their fundamental human rights. Al-Salman was released from
prison Nov. 25. She was arrested three times for exercising her right to freedom
of assembly, for demanding reforms in Bahrain’s educational system and for
protesting the killing and suppression of protesters, many of whom were
students. Read more at the Solidarity
Center. - photo courtesy Solidarity Center