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Thailand FM proposes sending refugee Bahraini footballer to another country
Feb 07, 2019 09:48The Thai foreign minister has suggested resolving the case of jailed Bahraini footballer with refugee status in Australia by sending him to a third country or his requested country of asylum instead of extraditing him to Bahrain, where he has to serve a 10-year sentence related to the uprising of 2011 against the ruling Al Khalifah regime.
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Don’t send me to Bahrain: Refugee footballer in Thai jail
Feb 04, 2019 09:35A Bahraini refugee footballer in Thailand says he does not want to be sent back to his homeland, as he arrived at a court in Bangkok to fight Manama’s extradition request.
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Bahrain's Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim visits Iran's Mashhad
Feb 02, 2019 18:52Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has arrived in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad after visiting the revered Iraqi city of Najaf.
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UN: Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman, colleagues targeted due to their political views
Feb 01, 2019 12:09The United Nations’ human rights agency says prominent Bahraini opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman and two of his colleagues have been given life sentences by the regime because of their political viewpoints, while Manama has attempted to portray their case as one of espionage.
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Bahraini court gives death sentence to activist, life terms to nearly two dozen others
Feb 01, 2019 02:32A court in Bahrain has sentenced an anti-regime activist to death and passed life imprisonment against nearly two dozen other political dissidents as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
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European Union denounces Bahrain ruling on Sheikh Salman
Jan 29, 2019 10:01The European Union (EU) has censured a ruling by Bahrain’s Supreme Court to uphold a life sentence for prominent opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman as “a further step against dissenting voices.”
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Amnesty raps Bahrain for upholding life sentence for Sheikh Salman
Jan 29, 2019 05:17Amnesty International has blasted Bahrain for upholding a life sentence against prominent Shia cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, describing the verdict as another blow to the freedom of expression in the country.
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Iran 40 years after victory of the Islamic Revolution (10)
Jan 28, 2019 09:12We discussed some highlights of the speech of Leader of the Islamic at Imam Reza's shrine in Mashhad on the occasion of the Iranian New Year on March 21, 2018. Today we will touch upon some other highlights of his comprehensive speech.
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Bahrain court upholds life sentence against three opposition leaders
Jan 28, 2019 08:45Bahrain's highest court has upheld life sentences against three opposition leaders, including top cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, on charges of spying for Qatar, a judicial source said Monday.
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5,000 prisoners of conscience in Bahraini regime’s detention, says rights group
Jan 20, 2019 03:45An independent human rights group says it has documented the arrest of more than 5,000 prisoners of conscience in addition to 200 victims of excessive use of force, murder and torture in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists.