Bahrain has freed 23 people accused of trying to topple the island’s Sunni Muslim monarchy, along with more than 200 other mostly Shia prisoners detained in recent months, a lawyer said on Wednesday
The prisoner release was a further concession to the mainly. Shia protesters who took to the streets last week to demand a constitutional monarchy and an elected government, emboldened by a surge of popular unrest across the Arab world.
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