#Bahrain arrests opposition figure
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Police arrested a Bahraini opposition figure on Tuesday in the latest attempt to suppress dissent in the US-backed island kingdom struggling to quell a two and a half year popular uprising. The Interior Ministry said on Twitter that Khalil al-Marzouq, a former lawmaker and an aide to the opposition Al Wefaq party’s Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman, had been summoned and taken to the prosecutor. It gave no details. An Al Wefaq spokesman said the fact that Marzouq had been taken to the (...)
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