The wording of the law is so broad that in effect it may be used to ban all protests to silence any dissent and put protesters in the hands of kangaroo courts".
And the President introduced a state of emergency, banning all protests and strikes.
See articleThe Arab stingBahrain banned all protests in the country amid clashes between anti-government demonstrators and the police.
Bahrain Bahrain has banned all protests and gatherings amid clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators, the BBC reports.
Officials have banned all protests near the city's main Baitul Mokarram mosque since Friday, when more than 2,000 people marched and burned an effigy of President Obama.
A couple of those liberals were released last week, including Sanaa Seif, a 21-year-old activist jailed last year for protesting a law banning all protests.
When a counterdemonstration was called in favor of the Assad regime, the Lebanese authorities banned all protests regarding Syria in the city and security forces threatened to break up Hizb ut-Tahrir's protest if it went ahead as planned.
The African Union has suspended the country "until restoration of constitutional order", and mediators from ECOWAS, the regional grouping, have talked to the putschists.In a communiqué they banned all protests "whether for or against Carlos Gomes Junior".
BAHRAIN Thousands of Shiite protesters formed a human chain around the capital, The Associated Press reported.SAUDI ARABIA The Interior Ministry said it would ban all protests after a demonstration in the oil-producing Eastern Province, The Associated Press reported.
