Bahrain

Female inmates go on hunger strike at Bahraini jail over ill-treatment

Oct 18, 2018 01:43

Three female dissidents have launched an open-ended hunger strike at a detention center in Bahrain to protest their dire situation and mistreatment by prison authorities as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on human rights campaigners and pro-democracy activists in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Bahrain: Aal-e Khalifa jails seven dissidents, strips them of citizenship

Oct 15, 2018 15:13

Judicial authorities in Bahrain have sentenced seven political dissidents to jail and revoked their nationality as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf island State.
Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim re-hospitalized in UK

Oct 11, 2018 11:41

Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, will undergo a second surgery on his eye on Thursday in a hospital in the British capital, London.
Bahraini religious scholars urge boycott of ‘fake’ elections

Oct 10, 2018 10:07

Bahraini clerics have denounced the planned parliamentary elections as “a sham,” saying such a vote in the Persian Gulf island State, which has stripped a majority of its people of their basic rights, will fail to deceive the world’s public opinion.
Bahraini opposition Wefaq announces boycott of parliamentary elections

Oct 10, 2018 01:57

Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which has been dissolved and banned from conducting any activity by the ruling Ale Khalifah regime, has announced a boycott of the kingdom's upcoming parliamentary elections.
Bahraini regime committed some 850 grave human rights violations in July: Rights group

Oct 07, 2018 11:53

An independent human rights group has documented 844 cases of grave human rights violations in Bahrain during the month of July as the ruling Ale Khalifeh regime relentlessly continues with its crackdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom.
Bahrain signs $10 billion financial support agreement with Persian Gulf allies

Oct 06, 2018 04:03

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have agreed to give Bahrain 10 billions of dollars as financial support as the Persian Gulf kingdom’s economy struggles with a current account gap and a large state budget deficit, which have dragged down prices of its international bonds and pushed its national currency to a 17-year low against the US dollar.
Son of jailed Bahraini activist end hunger strike in London

Oct 05, 2018 03:01

The son of one of Bahrain’s most prominent political prisoners has ended his hunger strike outside the Bahraini embassy in London after 15 British MPs agreed to take up his father’s case.
US State Department approves sale of $300 million tactical missiles to Bahrain

Sep 29, 2018 14:20

The US State Department has endorsed the proposed sale of more than 800 tactical missiles to Bahrain amid the Al Khalifah regime’s heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents in the tiny Persian Gulf country.
Bahraini court gives prison sentences to five anti-regime activists

Sep 28, 2018 02:06

A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to five anti-regime protesters as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.