DUBAI: Videos posted online showed Bahrain activists in full protest mode, burning tires in yet another display of defiance in the small Gulf Kingdom embroiled in upheaval now for 15 months. The protesters were demanding the release of female activists who had been detained during the past year of protests against the country’s ruling monarchy. [...]
Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Nabeel Rajab, the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and the withdrawal of all the charges against him. Rajab was arrested on his return from a visit to Lebanon on May 5 and was placed in custody for an initial period of a week [...]
CAIRO: Bahrain has decided on Tuesday to remand in custody the daughter of a jailed hunger striker for protesting during last week’s Formula One Grand Prix, her lawyer stated. “They decided yesterday to hold her for seven days for holding up traffic and insulting a public official. She refused to talk in the investigations or [...]
CAIRO: The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) denounced the punishment policy that the Egyptian security forces are taking vis-à-vis Bahraini Human Rights Defenders. For the second time in less than two weeks, the Egyptian authorities at the Cairo International Airport prevented prominent Bahraini human rights defender from entering the country. Nabeel Rajab, President [...]
DUBAI: A Bahrain teacher has reportedly been suspended for one week after she forced a student to kiss her foot in order to greet her for the day, local media reported. The school’s officials said that the teacher would be suspended from work with no pay for the week. The country’s education ministry has denounced [...]
MUMBAI: The world football government body FIFA said over the weekend it would investigate the recent match that saw Bahrain beat Indonesia 10-0 in a World Cup qualifier. FIFA said in a statement that it is “proceeding with this investigation as a priority” from security division offices in Jordan and Malaysia. FIFA investigators will be [...]
DUBAI: After two days of clashes in Bahrain and at least one reported death by security forces’ hands, the government maintains that there is a Western bias towards the Kingdom when reporting events on the ground. The king’s advisor for diplomatic affairs and Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies Chairman Mohamed Abdul Ghaffar [...]
DUBAI: Thousands of Bahrainis marched on the outskirts of the capital Manama on Friday, demanding democratic reforms in the Gulf island kingdom. The protesters, answering a call from leading Shiite clergyman Isa Qassim, marched 5 kilometers from Duraz, north of Manama, to Maksha village where a day earlier they had ended a week-long sit-in. “This [...]
CAIRO: The disclosure of hundreds of attacks against Asian workers in Bahrain in recent months is a shocking revelation and a frightening indication of the growing readiness to use violence by certain groups within our society. We condemn these attacks, which we consider to be equally reprehensible as assaults against Bahraini nationals. The Bahrain Human [...]
BARCELONA: Batelco, the leading broadband services provider for the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced the launch of Broadband for All in a new prepaid initiative, a first for the Kingdom and the region. Working with Aptilo Networks, a leading provider of systems to manage data services for wireless networks, including mobile data offloading and now [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain’s top opposition group al-Wefaq condemned the government on Saturday after an elderly woman reportedly died from tear gas inhalation. The group said that violations by security forces against protesters has dramatically increased over the past few months. The report from the Shiite group said that a woman in her 70s “died because of [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain’s Ambassador to the United States, Houda Nonoo, highlighted the Kingdom’s record in preserving religious freedom in a speech to members of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening. The talk has angered activists in the country, who continue to battle tear gas and police brutality in the country in their uprising against [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain medical sources confirmed the death of 6 Bahraini women on Saturday evening in a traffic accident off a highway after their driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into a wall. Five of the young women died at the site of the crash and the sixth later at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain security forces continue to use force against protesters, firing tear gas and arrested dozens of activists in the country. The United Nations has called on Manama to respect its human rights obligations and end the continuous crackdown against protests and activists. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for the country to respect [...]
CAIRO: Bahrain authorities deported 6 Americans from the country for allegedly lying on their visa application forms. Bahraini immigration said Tuesday in a statement that the Americans provided false information on the forms to obtain a tourist visa and stay in the country. They said they were visiting for touristic purposes, “but participated in a [...]
Manama (dpa) – Bahraini police forces used tear gas to disperse protesters on Tuesday and made at least 20 arrests, as scores of people took to the streets of Manama to mark the first anniversary of anti-government demonstrations. Protesters tried to reach Pearl Square, the epicenter of last year’s Shiite-led protests against the kingdom’s Sunni [...]
DUBAI: Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary since Bahrain citizens took to the streets in mass protests against the monarchy in the small Gulf kingdom. But, 12 months on the state-sponsored violence persists in the country, having left at least 35 people dead and hundreds others jailed for speaking out for change. Bahraini police dispersed protesters [...]
The Bahraini government remains far from delivering the human rights changes that were recommended by an independent international commission, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International warned that the government risked falling short of meeting its self-imposed deadline of the end of February to implement the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI)’s recommendations. The organization called [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain security forces on Sunday arrested a prominent female activist and deported two American citizens as clashes between police and pro-reform protesters continued ahead of the first anniversary of the February 14 revolution. Clashes intensified as residents in areas supporting the protests conducted sit-ins in-front of their homes to show their defiance, with police [...]
Berlin (dpa) – Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, in an interview published in Germany on Sunday, called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to listen to his people. “The best advice for him is to listen to the Syrian people,” the king was quoted as saying by Spiegel Online. Like Syria, authorities in Bahrain are [...]
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