Bahrain’s use of tear gas against protesters increasingly deadly

Headline Title:  Bahrain’s use of tear gas against protesters increasingly deadly 26 January 2012 Bahrain must investigate more than a dozen deaths that followed the misuse of tear gas by security forces, Amnesty International has said after another person was seriously injured by a tear gas canister in Manama this week. On Tuesday, 20-year-old Mohammad al-Muwali was seriously injured and hospitalized after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister launched by riot police responding to an anti-government protest in the capital city’s Karrana neighbourhood. A Bahraini human rights…

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