Sunday 7 August 2011

Bahrain releases former lawmakers from jail (AP)

Matar Matar, a former lawmaker with the Shiite opposition Al Wefaq society, embraces a relative Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011, outside his home in Daih, Bahrain, on being released from prison pending trial. Matar and fellow resigned Wefaq lawmaker Jawad Fairooz (unseen) were arrested in May on anti-state charges and released Sunday with scores of others detained during the anti-government uprising in Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - Bahrain released two former lawmakers from the Shiite opposition Sunday along with several other detainees who were arrested in the wake of widespread anti-government protests.



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