Thousands of people held a protest against the Bahraini monarchy outside one of the king's palaces near Manama on Saturday, a day after a failed attempt to march on another royal palace. Demonstrators called for the fall of the regime, chanting slogans against the king and the monarchy, from a street next to the walled Safriya Palace compound.
The lack of a security presence outside the palace suggested King Hamad was not in residence. Anti-government protests in Shia-majority but Sunni-ruled Bahrain broke out on February 14, after popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia toppled those countries' long-time autocratic rulers.
An email from a grouping of anti-government youth activists announcing the march said: "The February 14 Coalition calls on the people of Bahrain to maintain the pressure on the Al-Khalifa regime and urge them peacefully to step down, by marching towards the (Safriya) Palace." As the protest wound down, dozens of anti-government protesters mobbed someone off to the side of the road, whom activists said was either a security forces employee or a government supporter, though this could not be verified.
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