Bahrain: Women dies following anti-government clash
A WOMAN died following clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, a rights campaigner claimed yesterday.
Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, said 47-year-old Zainab Hasan Ahmed al-Jumaa suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired by riot police at demonstrators in her home town of Sitra last Friday.
Her death brings to 33 the number of people killed since February, when Bahrain's Shia majority started to agitate for greater freedoms in the kingdom ruled by Sunni monarch Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.
Bahrain's interior ministry denied al-Jumaa's death was linked to a police operation and said in a statement posted on its website that she had died of natural causes.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old Bahraini poet, Ayat al-Qurmezi, sentenced to a year in prison said yesterday she had been released but banned from travel, and vowed to continue voicing demands for democratic reforms to the Gulf island kingdom's constitutional monarchy.
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