Despite brutal crackdown and intimidation by Bahraini forces, peaceful protests took off the streets backed with huge protests across the world
Despite brutal crackdown and intimidation by Bahraini forces, peaceful protests took off the streets backed with huge protests across the world.
Bahraini forces have deployed tanks and armored vehicles in Diraz, shortly after attacking a peaceful protest march in the western village of Karzakan.
Witnesses said regime forces fired live bullets and tear gas at anti-government protesters and that army helicopters have been flying over protesters in Karzakan on Friday.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Manama before a revered cleric to denounce death sentences given to protesters following the Friday Prayers. In his sermon, the cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim alluded to the growing rift in the country.
"If you wish to be assailed with problems, to lose all comfort ... then allow the spirit of antagonism to take hold and spread in your country," he said. "This is a fire which may seem manageable at first, but is ultimately beyond control ... and its consequences are always grave."
Crowds across the world have also taken to the streets.
In Egypt, dozens of people gathered outside a government office in Cairo to denounce the Al Saud ruling family and their military intervention in Bahrain.
Hundreds of people, including university students, gathered outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in New Delhi. They expressed solidarity with the uprising, criticized the brutal invasion by Saudi troops, and demanded that the Saudi troops stop assaulting the Bahrainis.
Protests were also held in the Indian cities of Amroha, Nogawan, Lucknow, and Mumbai.
In Britain, dozens of activists gathered in front of Buckingham Palace in support of the revolution in Bahrain. 
The German government also criticized Bahrain's imposition of the death penalty on the several protesters and urged Bahrain's rulers to rescind the "draconian punishment." "This draconian punishment impedes the process of rapprochement and reconciliation in Bahrain," German Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said on Friday.
The European Union and the United States have failed to address the appalling repression of the peaceful pro-democracy movement in Bahrain and have been mum about the Saudi intervention.
In Iran, thousands of women took to the streets in Tehran following the Friday Prayers to show support for Bahraini women enduring the violence and crimes committed against them by security forces.
Bahraini forces have engaged in abusing and torturing dozens of women. Some women have also fallen victim to violence from the government forces who have been storming civilian houses and girls' schools.
Iranian protesters issued a six-point communiqué on Friday, to condemn the destruction of mosques by the Bahraini regime and desecration of the Holy Qur'an by Saudi and Bahraini forces among other violations.
The demonstrators highlighted the use of US and Israeli-made weapons by Saudi and Bahraini mercenaries against Bahraini protesters as yet more proof of the West's clandestine involvement in the repression of Bahrainis, and criticized Western powers for their hypocritical claims of support for human rights.
They also slammed Western media for their sluggish coverage of the developments in Bahrain and their purposeful underestimation of the humanitarian crisis in the Gulf state.
