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Bahrain: News on Pearl Roundabout Crackdown Flows

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Français · Bahreïn : informations sur la répression place de la Perle
Malagasy · Bahrain: Vaovao miely momba ny Fanaparitahana tao amin'ny Rond-point Pearl

This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011.

Eyewitness and amplified reports on Twitter are coming in fast about the pre-dawn raid on protesters at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout.

Twitter user @Hisham_g reports on attacks on international media:

RT @khabarNYC: @chanadbh CNN crew were ripped off their equipment at the airport by security…media blackout#Bahrain

[Audio] ABC's Miguel Marquez Beaten in#Bahrain – ABC News -http://goo.gl/gA3Ts #Feb14

Regime in #Bahrain is counting on media fatigue.. waited for western hemisphere to go 2 sleep to crackdown on 1000s of peaceful protesters

[Video] – قمع السميره السلميه في دوار اللؤلوه -http://goo.gl/9YcSJ #Bahrain

Global Voices Author Amira al Hussaini has reported slow and intermittent Internet, but has been managing to update on the protests via her Twitter feed @justamira:

Thank u 4 ur support: I ask you to direct them to the people on the ground: I watched from the sidelines: A witness to this massacre #Feb14

Followed #SidiBouzid and cried; followed #Jan25 and cried; and now#Feb14 is in my backyard: I feel numb and betrayed. #Bahrain

This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011.

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