DUBAI: A Bahraini woman has been killed in the capital Manama on Tuesday after inhaling a lethal does of tear gas, Iran's Press TV reported on Wednesday. The 55-year-old woman had been participating in anti-regime demonstrations when security forces fired a massive amount of tear gas at the protesters. Fakhria Jassim died as a result of the attack against the peaceful protesters, the report said. A funeral for the fallen protester is scheduled to take place on Thursday for Jassim, who was from the northern town of Isa. Jassim becomes the third person to die of the regime's violent crackdown on demonstrations since late November 2011. According to the main Bahraini opposition group al-Wafaq, 15-year-old Sayyed Hashem Saeed was “hit in the head” and killed by government forces in the northeastern town of Sitra in late December 2011. On November 19, Ali al-Badah, 16, also died after being run over by a police vehicle during an anti-regime protest in Juffair village, near Manama. Dozens of people have been killed and thousands more have been arrested and put in jail or fired from their jobs in Bahrain since the beginning of the popular uprising in February 2011. In addition, many health workers, teachers, opposition figures and human rights activists in Bahrain are still facing trial or serving prison terms over participation in anti-government demonstrations. On Monday, the deputy head of the supreme judicial council of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalifa bin Rashid Al Khalifa, said a judicial panel established in accordance with the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry would review verdicts that were initially not subject to appeal after being issued by a semi-military court over involvement in anti-government protests in mid-March 2011. Rashid said the panel would review the verdicts “in terms of applying international principles of fair trials, including the right to have a lawyer and proof verification.” The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry issued a report on November 23, 2011, saying that the Manama regime had used “excessive force, including the extraction of forced confessions against detainees” in their attempts to choke the demonstrations in the country. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/NdRo4 Tags: Activists, Manama, Protest, Tear-gas Section: Bahrain, Latest News, Women
