About 30,000 flag-waving worshippers attended an open-air mass held by Pope Francis in mainly Muslim Bahrain on Saturday, marked by a small protest by relatives of death row prisoners.Police briefly detained around 10 people who had protested outside a school where he was due to speak and asked to meet with the pontiff, according to a London-based human rights group.Hajer Mansoor, mother of jailed activist Sayed Nizar al-Wadaei, held a placard reading: "Tolerance does not exist for us here in Bahrain."
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The Pope should press authorities to commute death sentences and release all those unjustly imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of association, peaceful assembly, and expression.
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