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Bahrain to execute two activists despite concerns over torture
Jul 17, 2020 14:56A high-ranking official with Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says death sentences being imposed against human rights campaigners and political dissidents will increase the public demand for the restructuring of the country’s political system.
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UK selling spyware to 17 repressive regimes, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain
Jul 13, 2020 08:13Britain is providing more than a dozen repressive regimes around the world with wiretaps, spyware and other telecommunications interception equipment likely to be used to spy on dissidents, according to public records.
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Unjust death sentences boost public demand for political shake-up in Bahrain: Wefaq official
Jul 10, 2020 02:00A high-ranking official with Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says death sentences being imposed against human rights campaigners and political dissidents will increase the public demand for the restructuring of the country’s political system.
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Saudi support for US push to renew Iran arms ban bitter joke: Mousavi
Jun 30, 2020 08:15Iran’s Foreign Ministry Sopkesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi on Tuesday said it is bitterly sarcastic to witness certain warmongering Persian Gulf Arab states throwing their weight behind the US drive to extend a UN arms embargo on the Islamic Republic, adding these states need to understand that submission to America will not make the region secure.
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Bahraini activists launch online campaign against torture in prisons
Jun 25, 2020 03:46Bahraini activists and social media users have launched a campaign on the platform to demand an immediate end to the torture of political dissidents at prisons and detention centers across the kingdom.
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Bahrain regime forces attack inmates taking part in Shia mourning ritual
Jun 19, 2020 01:22A Bahraini human rights activist says regime forces have attacked dozens of Shia inmates participating in a mourning ritual at the notorious Jau Prison as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf country.
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Amnesty decries Kuwait, Bahrain coronavirus apps as ‘highly invasive’
Jun 18, 2020 03:58Amnesty International has censured Kuwait and Bahrain over the use of applications for tracing those who have come in contact with confirmed coronavirus patients, stating that the programs infringe upon the privacy of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Amnesty International condemns death sentences upheld for two Bahraini activists
Jun 17, 2020 01:39Amnesty International has roundly condemned Bahrain for upholding death sentences against two political dissidents, describing the move as a violation of the right to life besides the ultimate inhuman and degrading punishment.
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Qatar welcomes ‘real’ initiative meant to end Saudi-led blockade: Envoy
Jun 11, 2020 00:41Qatar’s Ambassador to Turkey Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi says Doha welcomes any genuine initiative that would end the economic and diplomatic blockade Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies imposed on the gas-rich kingdom in June 2017.
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Bahrain’s disruption of anti-Israel event ‘unlawful’, in line with normalization policy: Wefaq
May 12, 2020 00:52Bahrain's main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has strongly condemned as “unlawful” the disruption of an online event organized against normalization of ties with Israeli regime, saying the move falls within Manama’s policy to forge all-out relations with the Tel Aviv regime.