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UN expresses alarm at Bahrain move to strip 138 of nationality
Apr 18, 2019 11:03The United Nations has expressed concern that a mass trial by a court in Bahrain that stripped nearly 140 people of their nationality this week had not met international fair trial standards.
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Bahrain: Regime courts give prison sentences to 139 more activists
Apr 16, 2019 12:24A Bahraini court has handed down prison sentences to 139 activists and stripped almost all of them of their nationality in a mass trial, which was quickly denounced by rights groups as a tool of repression in the hands of the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime against dissidents.
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Bahrain: Regime forces detain journalist over criticizing media ‘misinformation' on Yemen war
Apr 16, 2019 07:49Bahraini police have detained a journalist, who works for a pro-government daily newspaper, after he criticized the media’s “misinformation campaign” surrounding the devastating Saudi-led war on Yemen.
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Israeli businessmen, officials cancel Bahrain visit amid national outcry
Apr 15, 2019 01:07An Israeli delegation of merchants and officials has canceled its planned participation in a business conference in Bahrain amid growing national outcry over the Persian Gulf kingdom’s warming ties with the Tel Aviv regime following years of clandestine contacts.
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Saudi Arabia, Bahrain habituated to following US: Iran
Apr 10, 2019 09:03Iran says Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are habituated to following their “extra-regional master” the United States, shortly after the two Arab states welcomed a decision by Washington to blacklist an Iranian military force.
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Top cleric Sheikh Qassim censures Bahrain’s plan to host Israeli delegation
Apr 03, 2019 02:38Bahrain’s top Shia Cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim has denounced the Manama regime for a plan to host an Israeli delegation later this month, describing it as a step on the path to “humiliation and capitulation” to the foremost enemy of the Muslim world.
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Bahrain MPs denounce invitation of Israelis to forum
Apr 01, 2019 01:11Members of Bahrain’s parliament have condemned the invitation of several Israeli speakers to a business conference due in the Persian Gulf country next month.
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Amnesty: Bahrain seeks to ‘sportwash’ image by hosting Formula One race
Mar 28, 2019 09:36Amnesty International says the “deeply repressive” Bahraini regime is trying to rehabilitate its image by hosting the Formula One race.
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Bahraini court jails nearly 170 people in crackdown on dissent
Mar 15, 2019 03:01A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to 167 anti-regime protesters as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Bahrain: Court upholds life sentences against two anti-regime activists
Mar 14, 2019 13:22Bahrain's Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld life sentences against two political dissidents as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.