Mar 24, 2017

An 18-year-old Bahraini died Friday, nearly two months after he was shot in the head near a top opposition cleric's home, Amnesty International said.

Mustapha Hamdan, who was shot on January 26 near the home of Sheikh Isa Qassim, died of cardiac arrest, Amnesty's Bahrain researcher Ariel Plotkin told AFP.

Plotkin said Hamdan had been brain dead as a result of the shooting.

Witnesses said Hamdan was shot in the head during a police raid on Qassim's home in a suburb of the capital Manama, where protesters had been staging sit-ins after the cleric's citizenship was revoked last year.

The interior ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the news Friday.