Another protest was held Wednesday calling for the release of Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, a jailed activist who has been on a hunger strike for more than two months. Bahraini police fired stun grenades in a bid to clear the crowd. Alkhawaja’s wife, Khadija al-Mousawi, gave an update on her husband’s condition and criticized Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone for ignoring his plight.

Khadija al-Mousawi: “He calls every day for five minutes, and that’s a relief for me. At least I know that he’s OK. And that’s why today’s telephone call is the most important call for me. And he stopped IV (drip) and minerals and glucose from this morning — sorry (wipes tears). What makes me angry, people who — people like Ecclestone, who decides to come to Bahrain because he thinks everyone is happy. I can assure him that I am not happy, my family is not happy.”