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Bahrain bars HRW staffer from FIFA congress amid crackdown on dissent
May 11, 2017 00:37The Bahraini regime has refused entry visa to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) activist scheduled to attend the annual FIFA congress in Bahrain, as the Persian Gulf kingdom's brutal crackdown on dissent persists.
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Bahraini court upholds death, life sentences for dissidents
May 10, 2017 10:28A Bahraini court has upheld the death and life sentences against three political activists over their alleged involvement in an attack on regime forces.
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Bahrain refers first civilian to military court: Amnesty
May 10, 2017 03:53Amnesty International reports that Manama has referred its first civilian case to military court for trial in accordance with a constitutional reform amendment approved by the king.
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Shroud-clad Bahrainis rally ahead of cleric’s trial
May 07, 2017 03:00Attired in shrouds, Bahrainis are rallying countrywide in support of the island’s most senior Shia cleric, who has been stripped of his citizenship and is to be tried for charges widely denounced as politically-influenced.
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Bahraini clerics demand mass rallies in support of Sheikh Qassim
May 07, 2017 02:38Bahraini clerics have called on people from all walks of life to stage nationwide rallies on the eve of the trial of distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, whom the ruling Ale Khalifah dynasty has stripped of his citizenship and mulls his expulsion from the kingdom.
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UN, US, EU urged to act on Sheikh Qassim’s plight
May 06, 2017 01:55Bahraini and international human rights activist groups write to the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, urging them to take action against Manama’s persecution of the kingdom’s most senior Shia cleric.
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Ayatollah Qassim’s trial persecution of Bahraini Shia Muslims: Sheikh Salman
May 05, 2017 15:56Secretary General of Bahrain’s al-Wefaq National Islamic Society Sheikh Ali Salman says the prosecution Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim amounts to persecution and targeting of the entire Shia-Muslim community by the Aal-e Khalifa minority regime in Bahrain.
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Bahraini religious scholars call on public to oppose anti-Qassim ruling
May 03, 2017 14:10Senior religious scholars in Bahrain have reiterated their unwavering support for Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, and called on all members of the public to roundly reject any court ruling against Bahrain's most distinguished Shia-Muslim religious scholars, whom the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime has stripped of his nationality and plans to put on trial.
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Manama must end degrading treatment of prisoners: Rights groups
Apr 30, 2017 23:52A coalition of human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, has called on Bahrain to halt its “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” treatment of political prisoners.
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HRW: Bahrain still arbitrarily punishing activist Nabeel Rajab
Apr 26, 2017 10:21Human Rights Watch warned that the health of imprisoned human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is worsening, noting that the Bahraini authorities have been arbitrarily punishing him.