Hawzah News Agency (Manama, Bahrain) -Bahraini policemen used tear gas and sound bombs to disperse demonstrators on Sitra Island on Friday, February 3..

Similar clashes were further reported in the Bahraini town of Bilad al-Qadim.

Mass anti-regime rallies also took place in the villages of Karbabad, Abu Saiba, Sanabis, Nuwaidrat, and Musalla.

Elsewhere, in the village Diraz, people held a sit-in outside the home of top Shia cleric Shaykh Isa Qasim.

Qasim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s dissolved opposition bloc, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, was stripped of his nationality last June over accusations that he used his position to serve foreign interests and promote sectarianism and violence. The clergyman has denied all the allegations.

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