Bahraini forces have killed an elderly man as they clashed with pro-democracy protesters on Saturday.

Bahraini forces have killed an elderly man as they clashed with pro-democracy protesters on Saturday.

The 73-year-old Abd-Ali Ali-Ahmad was martyred after he was tear-gassed by police.
Regime forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of protesters gathered along Budaiya highway, west of the capital, after a funeral of a protester who was run over by a police vehicle on Wednesday.

Ali Ahmad Radi al-Qassab, 21, was martyred after security forces chased him and ran over him by their cars in front of Qadam Circle in Abu Saiba town, north of Manama.
However, and as usual Bahraini regime denied responsibility, with interior ministry said police were not responsible for al-Qassab’s death.

AL-WEFAQ: REGIME GOING ON WITH KILLING, ARRESTS
For his part, the leader of the prominent opposition party, Shiekh Ali Salman, has called on the Gulf kingdom's authorities to release a prominent human rights blogger who was detained during a protest.

Police arrested Zainab al-Khawaja on Thursday as she took part in a protest on a highway leading to Manama, according to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
A video posted online showed her being roughed up, handcuffed and dragged away.

"We support Zainab and call for her release," Salman told the AFP news agency on Friday during a visit to London.

He said continued arrests of protesters showed that the government was not serious about enacting reforms it had promised after the publication last month of a highly critical report on the protests in February and March.

The report said the death toll from a crackdown on the Shia-led pro-democracy protests in Bahrain had reached 35, and police had used "excessive force" and tortured detainees.

"After the report, they return to the same methods... they kill more people they put more people in prison," said Salman.
"It sends a bad message from the regime that it does not respect the recommendations of the report."

Salman also said he is to hold talks with the British minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, on Monday in London.

At least 55 martyrs have fallen since the crackdown on protesters since mid February. Hundreds others have been arrested, including women, and thousand s others have lost their jobs because they backed the peaceful anti-government protests.