"This is a dress rehearsal for the return. We will return!"

"...  MANAMA: Bahraini opposition parties, launching a weeklong ‘sit-in’ for political reforms at a mass rally, swore yesterday to take their campaign to the centre of last year’s democracy protest in the capital Manama. “This is a dress rehearsal for the return. We will return!  We will return! Soon our sit-in will not be here but at the Pearl Roundabout,” said poetess Ayat Al-Qormozi, who became a face of the Arab Spring movement after she was jailed for reading out a poem criticising the king at Pearl Roundabout. She was addressing a crowd of over 10,000 at the rally outside Manama, where anti-government protests last year were crushed by Bahraini forces and troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Pearl Roundabout, a large traffic junction in Manama where the protesters camped out and rallied for a month, has since been closed off by security forces who monitor the area closely...."