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| Bahraini Wounded during Arrest Dies |
| 2014-01-27 |
| [An Nahar] A young Bahraini prisoner died of wounds he suffered during a police operation to detain him on charges of weapons smuggling, the interior ministry said on Sunday. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the Gulf kingdom's main Shiite political opposition group said the man died on Saturday as a result of torture during his detention. A ministry statement said Fadel Abbas Musalem, 20, had been taken to hospital after being "maimed in the head" on January 8 when police tried to arrest him in a Shiite village near the capital Manama. It added that police acted in "legitimate defense" when they fired on a car carrying Mussalem and another man when it kept driving towards security forces despite warning shots. The other man was also nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! . Musallem was part of a group suspected of "involvement in smuggling weapons and explosives and in terrorist acts", the ministry added. |
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