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British royals lend legitimacy to tyrannical Arab monarchies
Apr 12, 2021 04:44Peter Ford, Former British Ambassador to Bahrain said “I can say from personal experience that the Persian Gulf rulers are very generous with the money of their citizens, and are very ready to shower visiting British royals with very expensive gifts. It was one reason, why the British Royals were always super happy to visit Persian Gulf monarchies, they were guaranteed to receive expensive gifts like diamonds, race horses, holidays on private island and cars.”
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Bahrain releases some inmates of notorious prison after virus outbreak
Apr 11, 2021 03:00Bahrain has released dozens of inmates, including long-term political prisoners, amid a surge in COVID-19 cases at the heavily overcrowded jail in Faw, east of the Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Bahraini political prisoner attains martyrdom of deliberate medical negligence: Al-Wefaq
Apr 07, 2021 03:24Bahrain’s main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says a Bahraini political dissident has passed away in a detention center after prison services denied him medical aid, amid reports of alarming conditions of confinement in the kingdom in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Top Bahraini cleric renews call for immediate release of jailed political prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 05, 2021 12:21Bahrain’s most prominent cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has expressed concern over the alarming situation of healthcare in the country’s prisons and jails, renewing his call for the immediate release of political inmates in light of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
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Bahraini people hold rallies to demand release of prisoners amid pandemic
Apr 05, 2021 02:13Bahraini people have held rallies across the country for the fourth consecutive day to call for the release of prisoners amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bahrainis rally to voice solidarity with political inmates, demand their freedom
Apr 03, 2021 07:14Protesters have taken to the streets in Bahrain to show solidarity with political prisoners and call for their immediate release as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its cruel clampdown on human rights advocates and opposition figures in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Bahrain: Sheikh Qassim warns of death of political prisoners amid coronavirus pandemic
Apr 01, 2021 11:46Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has warned that political dissidents in Bahraini prisons are facing deaths and demanded their immediate release.
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Hamas slams Bahrain’s decision to open Occupied Palestine embassy, name envoy
Mar 31, 2021 03:43Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned a decision by Bahrain to set up a diplomatic mission in the Israeli-Occupied Territories and appoint its first ambassador to Tel Aviv.
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Over dozen British MPs demand govt. to reconsider ties with Bahrain over rights abuses
Mar 20, 2021 15:31More than a dozen British lawmakers have called on the UK government to “reconsider its relationship with Bahrain” to pressure the Al Khalifah regime into releasing political prisoners as a heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy activists persists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Detained children beaten, threatened with rape by Bahrain police: Rights groups
Mar 11, 2021 04:26Bahrain’s police forces have beaten children they arrested on the anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, threatening them with rape and electric shocks, according to two human rights groups.