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Bahrain's Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim visits Iran's Mashhad
Feb 02, 2019 18:52Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has arrived in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad after visiting the revered Iraqi city of Najaf.
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UN: Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman, colleagues targeted due to their political views
Feb 01, 2019 12:09The United Nations’ human rights agency says prominent Bahraini opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman and two of his colleagues have been given life sentences by the regime because of their political viewpoints, while Manama has attempted to portray their case as one of espionage.
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Bahraini court gives death sentence to activist, life terms to nearly two dozen others
Feb 01, 2019 02:32A court in Bahrain has sentenced an anti-regime activist to death and passed life imprisonment against nearly two dozen other political dissidents as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
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European Union denounces Bahrain ruling on Sheikh Salman
Jan 29, 2019 10:01The European Union (EU) has censured a ruling by Bahrain’s Supreme Court to uphold a life sentence for prominent opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman as “a further step against dissenting voices.”
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Amnesty raps Bahrain for upholding life sentence for Sheikh Salman
Jan 29, 2019 05:17Amnesty International has blasted Bahrain for upholding a life sentence against prominent Shia cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, describing the verdict as another blow to the freedom of expression in the country.
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Bahrain court upholds life sentence against three opposition leaders
Jan 28, 2019 08:45Bahrain's highest court has upheld life sentences against three opposition leaders, including top cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, on charges of spying for Qatar, a judicial source said Monday.
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5,000 prisoners of conscience in Bahraini regime’s detention, says rights group
Jan 20, 2019 03:45An independent human rights group says it has documented the arrest of more than 5,000 prisoners of conscience in addition to 200 victims of excessive use of force, murder and torture in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists.
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Bahraini court gives prison sentences to three more anti-regime activists, revokes their citizenship
Jan 18, 2019 14:43A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to three anti-regime protesters and stripped them of their citizenship as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf island State.
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PGCC is ineffectual, needs new principles of management: Qatar
Jan 14, 2019 03:35Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Ale Thani says the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) has no executive power left, calling for change to the structure of the six-member regional intergovernmental political and economic union.
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Australian FM travels to Thailand over Saudi teen’s case
Jan 10, 2019 05:23Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has traveled to Thailand to review the asylum case of an 18-year-old Saudi girl who has been stopped in the Asian country on her way to Australia fleeing purported abuse by her family.