Bahrain releases teenage Iraqi soccer player
Iraqi demonstrators hold pictures of soccer player Zulfiqar Naji
By James M. Dorsey
Bahrain has released a teenage Iraqi soccer player detained in April in a crackdown on anti-government protesters in what the government said was a goodwill gesture to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Abdulameer Naji, a former professional soccer player and current b…
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