Bahrain

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Protesters squat in the foreground with their arms in the air making peace signs, their backs to the camera. Facing them is a line of police dressed in riot gear with a large, armoured vehicle in the middle of the line.
Protesters face police at a sit-in on the beach at Karbabad, Bahrain, in June 2012 during the Bahraini uprising. They were met with tear gas.

 

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