The rally in the village of Sitra, South of the capital Manama, turned violent, when Al Khalifa regime’s troops began to disperse the crowd with teargas and shotguns, World Bulletin reported.
The opposition leader has been under the custody of the ruling regime’s security forces for over a week. The 49-year-old cleric has been charged with "promoting regime change by force, threats, and illegal means, and of insulting the Interior Ministry publicly", as claimed by Bahraini Prosecutor Nayef Mahmud.
Al-Wefaq Party, however, has rejected the allegation as malicious and outright lies.
Last week, Liz Throssell, the spokesperson with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, urged the immediate release of Sheikh Salman "as well as all other persons convicted or detained for merely exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of expression and assembly".
The western-backed kingdom has so far paid no heed to the calls.
Since mid-February 2011, thousands of anti-regime protesters have held numerous demonstrations in the streets of Bahrain, calling for political reforms.
Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in the Manama regime’s ongoing crackdown on peaceful anti-regime rallies.
