An anti-goverment protester holds a placard that reads ''Bahrain is Our Responsibility'' as she protests against government's recent release of detainees in Manama, December 22, 2011. ( Photo: Reuters)
Bahrain’s Police forcibly broke up the Al Wefaq party's weekly meeting Friday and also used tear gas to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters attempting to protest in the island kingdom's capital.
Friday's clampdown was the latest episode in 10 months of unrest between Bahrain's Sunni monarchy and an opposition movement led by the country's majority Shiites.
The attack comes a day after the Interior Ministry banned Al Wefaq leaders from holding the weekly meeting.
Defying government orders, Shiite clerics on Friday also held prayer services on the rubble of mosques that had been bulldozed by authorities earlier this year.
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