Manama: Officials in Bahrain have denied an Al Jazeera report that police carried out raids on girls’ schools, detaining them and beating them, during its crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, Bahrain news agency reported.
“The allegations made by Al Jazeera English are totally baseless and without credibility”, the sources were quoted by the agency as saying.
“Reports that police have targeted students or beat them or threatened them are a blatant and malicious fabrication,” they said.
Bahraini authorities were responding to secret filming conducted by Al Jazeera correspondent, Charles Stratford that revealed shocking evidence of the brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in the Gulf state, including that police carried out periodic raids on girls’ schools since the unrest began.
The government of Bahrain deployed security forces onto the streets on March 14 in an attempt to quell more than four weeks of protests.
A three-month “state of emergency” that was declared by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on March 15, is due to be lifted on June 1.
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