Bahrain

Bahrain: Regime court sentences four nationals to death over terror charges

Nov 12, 2018 14:30

A Bahraini court has sentenced four of its nationals to death for their alleged roles in a deadly bombing last year as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf island State.
Bahrain: Aal-e Khalifa jails more activists ahead of elections this month

Nov 11, 2018 10:17

Bahraini regime authorities have given jail terms, ranging from three to 10 years, to six more anti-regime activists a week after sentencing opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and two of his colleagues to life in prison.
Bahraini scholars condemn life sentence given to opposition leader

Nov 06, 2018 03:22

Bahraini scholars have strongly condemned the recent life sentence handed down to prominent Bahraini Shia cleric and opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, stating that the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime has lost its legitimacy.
Iran slams life sentence for Bahrain's opposition leader

Nov 04, 2018 15:55

Iran has slammed the decision by an appellate court in Bahrain to sentence prominent Bahraini Shia cleric and opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, to life in prison, calling on the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom to stop its inhuman approach.
Bahraini court gives life sentence to over a dozen anti-regime activists

Oct 31, 2018 03:24

A court in Bahrain has sentenced 13 anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
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.