In the city of Sitra, regime forces opened fire to disperse crowds of peaceful protesters. No casualties have been reported.
The demonstrators in Diraz, Abu Saiba and Dair chanted anti-government slogans, demanding an end to the Al Khalifa rule. They also called on the Manama regime to free all people in prison.
Tens of thousands of Bahraini protesters have been holding peaceful anti-government rallies throughout the country since February, demanding an end to the rule of the Al Khalifa family.
Scores of people have been killed and many more have been arrested and tortured in prisons in a government-sanctioned crackdown on peaceful protests since the beginning of the demonstrations.
In mid-March, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates deployed military forces in Bahrain to assist the Bahraini government in its brutal crackdown on popular protests