Bahrain protestors defy rally ban

Anti-government protesters defied a ban by marching on the headquarters of Bahrain’s main opposition party, pressing ahead with their campaign for greater political and civil rights for the nation’s Shiite Muslims.

The protest in front of Al Wefaq’s offices in the capital Manama was a show of defiance by the party that has been the main backer of the Shiite majority’s 10-month-old protest movement, aimed at breaking the Sunni dynasty’s monopoly on power in the strategically important Arab kingdom in the Persian Gulf.