Bahrain (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Protests and Clashes Continue

Today's funeral procession for 16-year-old Hassan AlJazeeri, killed on Thursday by security forces

Mass opposition march in Bahrain on Friday

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2155 GMT: Bahrain. A candlelight march by women in Alkharjya village for Hassan AlJazeeri:

Today's clashes after AlJazeeri's funeral:

2125 GMT: Bahrain. The Ministry of Interior claims that, in the last three days, two police officers have been killed and 75 injured with "significant damage to public as well as private property".

The Ministry continues:

Recent media reports have exposed the discovery of a Bahraini terror cell with links to Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. #Bahrain

— Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) February 16, 2013

The Ministry of Interior confirms these reports and also confirms the arrest of 8 Bahrainis on terror-related charges.#Barahin

— Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) February 16, 2013

Arrest made in cooperation of a brotherly country. Eight obtained training in weapons & explosives & received funding from outside #BAH

— Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) February 16, 2013

1705 GMT: Bahrain. Responding to police raids in Sanabis, residents begin throwing objects from rooftops, prompting officers to retreat into an alley. After the barrage continues, including what appears to be Molotov cocktails, the officers flee:

1649 GMT: Bahrain. Claimed footage of police jeeps trying to run over young men, as they try to get to Pearl Roundabout, the centre of the protests two years ago.

Since the Roundabout was overrun in Msrch 2011, with security forces violently dispersing the protest camp and later destroying the iconic monument, the area has been closed off to marchers.

1559 GMT: Tunisia. Thousands of supporters of the Ennadha Party, the leading faction in the ruling coaliation, have protested in Tunis.

The demonstrators denounced plans, announced by Prime Minister Hisham Jebali last week, for a government of technocrats.

"Supporting Ennahda is a duty," the crowd shouted, jeering former Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi and the secular opposition party Call of Tunisia.

Jebali, the deputy head Ennahda, announced his plan to form a non-partisan government in the wake of public outrage over the assassination on 6 February of leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid.

After meeting the leaders of the main parties on Friday, Jebali said talks on the new administration had been rescheduled for Monday.

1555 GMT: Egypt. Policemen have beat a man to death in public, suspecting he shot and killed a police officer on Saturday morning in the Upper Egypt governorate of Beni Suef.

During the slain officer's military funeral, several police officers and personnel --- having arrested Hossam Abo El-Regal in an apartment in Beni Suef city --- led the suspect to the site of the funeral, tied him down in a mini-truck, and killed him as dozens of mourners and senior security and political officials watched.

1345 GMT: Bahrain. Police have used tear gas to block young men from reaching Pearl Roundabout, the centre of the 2011 demonstrations.

The Ministry of Interior has posted, "Police restored order after groups of thugs were involved in illegal gatherings and rioting in Budaiya Road."

1312 GMT: Bahrain. Despite widespread blocking of roads by police, many thousands have turned out for the funeral of 16-year-old Hassan AlJazeeri, killed by security forces on Thursday:

1120 GMT: Bahrain. Video has been posted of the farewell to 16-year-old Hassan AlJazeeri, shot and killed by security forces on Thursday, before his burial this afternoon.

1100 GMT: Iraq. A suicide bomber has killed senior Iraqi army intelligence officer Brigadier General Ali Aouni, along with three of his bodyguards, in Mosul.

The bomber detonated his explosives near Aouni's car as he was leaving his home in the northern city. Guards killed one suicide bomber, but another bomber ran among the general's entourage and blew himself up.

0754 GMT: Egypt. Ministry of Health officials have said one person died and 26 were injured on Friday in clashes in front of the Presidential Palace and other areas of teh country.

Police fired water cannons and gas canisters at the demonstrators who threw stones and fire bombs near the Palace. Clashes were also reported in Alexandria and in several cities across the Gharbiya Governorate as protesters blocked roads.

The death was in Gharbiya, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Cairo, when a vehicle hit a protester.

Earlier in the day, thousands of supporters of President Morsi staged a rally in a square near near Cairo University.

0629 GMT: Bahrain. Widespread protests and clashes continued throughout the Kingdom on Friday, a day af ter the second anniversary of the mass pro-reform uprising.

As tens of thousands marched in the main rally, police fired tear gas to prevent youths from reaching Pearl Roundabout, the symbolic centre of the 2011 demonstrations.

Mass opposition march in Bahrain on Friday

The opposition and regime swapped allegations of violence. A day after a teenager was killed by security forces, another young man is reportedly in critical condition after he was hit in the head by fire from the police. Authorities claimed that Thursday's killing of a policeman had been followed by the wounding of four others by birdshot on Friday.

The Ministry of Interior said four men had been arrested over the shooting of the policemen. Regime officials are also claiming that a 2-kilogramme bomb was defused on Thursday on the King Fahd Causeway linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.