Thousands of Bahrainis have staged a fresh anti-regime protest condemning sectarian discrimination in the Persian Gulf Arab country.
The Bahraini demonstrators took to the streets on Friday, accusing the authorities of what they called sectarian discrimination in a systematic way.
They carried posters of prominent opponents who have been jailed over the past three years, and demanded their release.
Since mid-February 2011, thousands of pro-democracy protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.
On March 14, 2011, troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates invaded the country to assist the Bahraini government in its crackdown on peaceful protesters.
According to local sources, scores of people have been killed and hundreds arrested.
Physicians for Human Rights say doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured, or disappeared because they have "evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces, and riot police" in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.
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