DUBAI: A Bahraini woman committed suicide on Saturday in protest of continued government violence against protesters in the country, now into nearly a yearlong movement against the monarchy. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said 59-year-old Badriya Ali set herself ablaze on the rooftop of her house in Sanabis, some 6 kilometers west of Manama. Security forces had raided her home in April 2011 to arrest her son, Ahmed Mushaima. According to the rights center, government forces beat the son in front of the mother before taking him into custody. The incident had left the woman with severe depression. The Bahraini officers also wrote, “Long live Khalifa” on the walls of the woman's home. Bahraini regime forces have several times attacked anti-regime demonstrations in Sanabis over the past few weeks. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more arrested or fired from their jobs since the beginning of the popular uprising in Bahrain in February 2011. Witnesses said that Salma Mohsen, an 81-year-old woman, died on Saturday after inhaling tear gas fired by regime forces inside her house in the northwestern village of Barbar. On Sunday, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa proposed constitutional amendments that would allow the elected parliament to question the ministers without seeking prior approval from the upper house. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/DHsq9 Tags: Badriya Ali, Suicide Section: Bahrain, Human Rights, Latest News, Women
