Bahrain: Great welcome for opposition members who returned back from exile in Syria, lebanon
Bahrain, Politics, 3/2/2001

Thousands of Bahraini have welcomed two of the opposition members who live in Exile in Syria and Lebanon as heroes upon the two men arrived back to their homeland on Wednesday after the release of the general amnesty and making of historical reforms in the country.

A prominent Shiite opposition figure Abdul Nabi al-Okari who returned back after 15 years in exile said after he came out of a plane coming from Damascus that he feels as if he returns back to " his mother's lap."

Almost 4,000 Bahraini citizens who were waiting at the airport threw flowers at Al- Okari and Abdul Rahman al-Nueimi, who ( Nueimi) is a prominent Sunni opposition figure who lived for three decades in exile.

The two men who are in their 60 s returned back to their country in the course of a general amnesty declared by the ruler of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa al-Khaleifa by the beginning of February in the framework of democratic reforms.

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