Bahrain: News on Pearl Roundabout Crackdown Flows · Global Voices
Ivan Sigal

This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011.
Eyewitness and amplified reports on Twitter are coming in fast about the pre-dawn raid on protesters at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout.
Twitter user @Hisham_g reports on attacks on international media:
RT @khabarNYC: @chanadbh CNN crew were ripped off their equipment at the airport by security…media blackout#Bahrain
[Audio] ABC's Miguel Marquez Beaten in#Bahrain – ABC News -http://goo.gl/gA3Ts #Feb14
Regime in #Bahrain is counting on media fatigue.. waited for western hemisphere to go 2 sleep to crackdown on 1000s of peaceful protesters
[Video] – قمع السميره السلميه في دوار اللؤلوه -http://goo.gl/9YcSJ #Bahrain
Global Voices Author Amira al Hussaini has reported slow and intermittent Internet, but has been managing to update on the protests via her Twitter feed @justamira:
Thank u 4 ur support: I ask you to direct them to the people on the ground: I watched from the sidelines: A witness to this massacre #Feb14
Followed #SidiBouzid and cried; followed #Jan25 and cried; and now#Feb14 is in my backyard: I feel numb and betrayed. #Bahrain
This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011.