Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Bahraini groups and political activists have called for protests on Friday (August 14, 2015) marking Bahrain's Independence Day, while the regime stepped up its deployment of security forces on highways and deployed additional soldiers and vehicles on main roads.

Witnesses said that security reinforcements began to arrive around the perimeter of the LouLoua (Pearl) Roundabout, the cradle of the popular widespread protests that Bahrain witnessed in February-March 2011, for the opposition's February 14 Coalition has called for staging demonstrations towards the Pearl Roundabout area that has been surrounded by barbed wires and national guard squads and vehicles since the regime's forces cracked down on protestors and cleared the area more than 4 years ago.

A number of pages on social media reported over 30 security checkpoints on main roads across Bahrain on Thursday (August 13, 2015) in anticipation of protests.

The island kingdom's forces have been confronting peaceful protests staged in villages and towns across the Gulf state with excessive force since the demonstrators were driven out of the Pearl Roundabout by Saudi-backed Bahraini forces.

The main opposition group, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, calls for establishing a constitutional monarchy while other opposition societies demand the right to self-determination.

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