Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry

Chapter IV — Narrative of Events of February and March 2011
at around 15:20 the deceased was shot while driving a white vehicle and
attempting to run over a police officer deployed in the area. Conversely,
witness statements indicate that the victim was participating in a peaceful
demonstration, which MoI units were dispersing, and he was running away
from police when he sustained fatal injuries to his head, legs and back caused
by shotgun pellets. 253
517. As clashes between MoI units and protesters subsided, at around
21:00, a police patrol was ordered to transport three individuals who had been
detained during the day to Al Wusta police station. By 21:30, the assigned
police patrol had executed its orders and delivered those three individuals to
the police station. Among those detained was Mr Isa Radhi Abdali Ahmed
Alradhi, who according to MoI reports had sustained head injuries. The next
day, Mr Alradhi was pronounced dead at BDF Hospital due to injuries to his
head and skull and an internal brain haemorrhage. 254
518. During the day, reports from other areas indicated that unidentified
individuals had attempted to run over and attack police. For example, an MoI
Special Forces Unit was attacked at around 19:00 by a bus on Road 38 in
A’Ali. One police officer was killed and 16 injured during the day in Sitra.
Three other police officers were injured in Nuwaidrat and in the vicinity of
Roundabout 22, bringing the total number of injured police to 19.
519. As the security situation continued to deteriorate throughout the day,
and attacks by unidentified persons on civilians were reported by the official
media and then circulated by social networking websites, residents of many
neighbourhoods resorted to setting up checkpoints and roadblocks at the
entrances to their neighbourhoods. These areas included Roundabouts 10 and
20 in Hamad Town, Al Diraz and the entry to Bani Jamra. The heightened
sense of apprehension and general insecurity that Bahrainis and foreign
workers felt led to clashes at many of these checkpoints as residents denied
people who did not appear to reside in the neighbourhood and who were
suspected to be vandals access to their neighbourhoods.
520. It was reported that two mosques were attacked at around 15:50.
These were the Majbal and the Befrij Al-Fadel Mosques in Manama.
521. As in previous days, a number of expatriate workers, most of whom
were of South Asian origin, were attacked and harassed by groups of
unidentified individuals. At approximately midday, a Bangladeshi national
named Mr Mohammad Ikhlas Tozzomul Ali was killed when he was run over
by a car in Sitra. Three other Bangladeshi workers were also injured in that
incident.
522. Starting at 15:15, a rally of over 8,000 individuals proceeded down
the King Faisal Highway towards the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia in the Diplomatic Area. The demonstrators were protesting against the
deployment of the GCC-JSF that had arrived in Bahrain the previous day.
253 See Chapter VI Section A.
254 See Chapter VI Section A.
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