Abdulredha Mohamed Hasan Buhmaid (or Buhamaid, Arabic: عبدالرضا محمد حسن بوحميد) was a 28-year-old Bahraini protester shot by a live bullet in the head on 18 February 2011.

Several witnesses including journalists and medics accused authorities of shooting directly at protesters, preventing some ambulances from reaching the site and firing at others.

Britain revoked over forty arms licenses to Bahrain after an earlier announcement that it would review them and German president canceled a planned visit to the country.

[7] Security forces responded to protests by firing tear gas, rubber bullets, sound bombs and birdshot.

[19] At about 4:46 in the afternoon, about a thousand protesters, most of them young men who participated in Al Daih funeral of Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima marched toward Manama,[21] defying the government ban on gatherings.

[25] A witness interviewed by Physicians for Human Rights said that he and other protesters moved closer to army forces following the initial shooting.

[21] When the shooting stopped, about fifty protesters[29] started praying on the road,[21] and few stood in front facing the army with their hands in the air.

[22][26] After that, riot police intervened, firing tear gas and birdshot to disperse protesters, inflicting more injuries among them.

[1]: 78 [32] A cameraman working for the Associated Press said he saw "army units shooting anti-aircraft weapons, fitted on top of armored personnel carriers, above the protesters in apparent warning shots and attempts to drive them back from security cordons".

[33][34] Bahraini photojournalist Mazen Mahdi said that the army shot "live fire from machine guns" and that paramedics were blocked from helping the wounded.

[32] A senior emergencies researcher and medics interviewed by Human Rights Watch confirmed that some of the twelve ambulances sent were prevented by security forces from reaching the site.

[31] Michael Slackman of The New York Times reported that he and a colleague were "shot at from a helicopter"[24] shortly after army opened fire on protesters.

[24] Associated Press witnesses,[33] The Daily Telegraph,[31] and The New York Times[21] mentioned that army personnel positioned in high buildings and helicopters fired on protesters.

Jalal Firooz, resigned MP of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's main opposition party, said he saw soldiers fire on protesters.

[35] A report by three local rights groups mentioned that "photos of the injuries suggest that army aimed at the upper body area".

[38] That night, over seven thousand protesters staged an anti-government sit-in in hospital parks, described by The Guardian as "the only place in Manama where they now feel safe to gather in numbers".

[40] Two doctors said they treated patients who "seemed to be [injured by] live bullets rather than shotgun pellets, judging by the entry and exit holes".

[42] "This is a bullet, gunshot wound, direct to his head and he's bleeding profusely from his nose, from his ear, his brain is shattered into pieces", said a doctor.

[43] Remaining in ICU for three days,[44] Buhmaid was medically declared to be dead early in the afternoon of 21 February,[1]: 233  becoming the seventh victim of the uprising.

[1]: 234 On the night of 18 February, Fasial al-Hamar, then the Minister of Health, issued a press release aired on the national TV which denied there had been any deaths.

[1]: 88 [48] At the same day during afternoon, over 100,000[49][50] participated in a protest dubbed "March of loyalty to martyrs" in honor of the seven victims of the uprising.

[52] In a press conference, Minister of Justice said "Buhmaid was shot in the head and he underwent a surgery in the presence of the media.

[5] Appearing on the national TV, the crown prince authorized by his father, the king, offered unconditional dialogue with opposition.

[22] Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of European Union demanded "restraint" from all parties and said that report of violence "deeply concerned" her.

[55] Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said "We are deeply concerned about the situation in Bahrain and the events which have led to the deaths of several protesters".

[35] Lawrence Cannon, then Canada's Foreign Minister called the Bahraini government to "exercise restraint" and lunch an investigation into protesters' deaths.

[38] "Canada urges Bahrain to respect its citizens' rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and to engage in peaceful dialogue with its people to address their concerns", he added.

[58] His death was described by the online opposition newspaper, Bahrain Mirror, as a "legendary scene that will remain forever in the conscience of humanity".

[57] A poster found in two articles of the aforementioned newspaper described Buhmaid as "the martyr who brought down an army with his peacefulness".

[58][59] Speaking to participants of a sit-in front of United Nations building in Manama on 22 February 2012, Ahlam al-Khuza'e of Al Wefaq said that shooting scene of Buhmaid was "the top manifestation of peacefulness".