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Thailand to free refugee Bahraini footballer after extradition bid dropped
Feb 11, 2019 10:10Thailand has decided to free a jailed Bahraini footballer with Australian residency after Manama dropped a request for his extradition, a prosecutor in the case says.
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Qatar strongly protests airspace violation by Bahrain
Feb 10, 2019 03:07The Qatari government has accused Bahrain of violating its airspace in a rare such reaction since relations were severed two years ago over a diplomatic standoff between Arab states in the Persian Gulf region.
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Bahrain: Aal-e Khalifa forces destroy signs marking martyrdom anniversary of Prophet's daughter
Feb 09, 2019 09:58Security forces of Aal-e Khailfa in Bahrain have destroyed signs marking the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (SA), the daughter of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA).
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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.