Recommend this article  Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas
Friday to disperse several hundred protesters among thousands
who took to the streets Friday to demand the government's
resignation after a fact-finding report uncovered torture and
other abuses against detainees.  The protesters carried the
Bahraini flag as they marched for nearly four miles (six
kilometers) along a highway through Shiite neighborhoods in a
northern district of the island kingdom. After the march,
several hundred protesters gathered at a traffic circle,
prompting police to seal off the road and release clouds of tear
gas.  Bahrain's Shiites, about 70 percent of the nation's
525,000 citizens, complain of widespread discrimination under
the kingdom's Sunni rulers, including being blocked from top
government or military posts. The monarchy has offered some
concessions but refused to bow to demands for greater political
freedoms and rights.  Activists accuse the government of failing
to implement the recommendations of a fact-finding