Sunday, May 23, 2010

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Bahraini women hold up pictures

Bahraini women hold up pictures of young men jailed in connection with unrest in the nation's Shiite Muslim villages during a rally Saturday, May 22, 2010, in the coastal village of Malkiya, Bahrain, demanding their release. The signs reads: 'No to political prisoners.' A few hundred village residents and human rights activists participated in the demonstration. The child at front, wearing a red headband that reads 'We will never leave our prisoners,' holds a picture of Sadiq Ali of nearby Karzakan, who is in police custody with multiple gunshot wounds. Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the police shooting.… Read more »

(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)