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Bahraini court gives life sentence to over a dozen anti-regime activists
Oct 31, 2018 03:24A court in Bahrain has sentenced 13 anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Female inmates go on hunger strike at Bahraini jail over ill-treatment
Oct 18, 2018 01:43Three female dissidents have launched an open-ended hunger strike at a detention center in Bahrain to protest their dire situation and mistreatment by prison authorities as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on human rights campaigners and pro-democracy activists in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
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Bahrain: Aal-e Khalifa jails seven dissidents, strips them of citizenship
Oct 15, 2018 15:13Judicial authorities in Bahrain have sentenced seven political dissidents to jail and revoked their nationality as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf island State.
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Bahrainis scoff at idea of sham elections, demand end of minority regime
Oct 12, 2018 05:38The regime in Bahrain has again resorted to the flawed idea of sham elections to the rubber stamp parliament in a bid to fool the disgruntled masses and to mislead world public opinion.
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Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim re-hospitalized in UK
Oct 11, 2018 11:41Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, will undergo a second surgery on his eye on Thursday in a hospital in the British capital, London.
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Bahraini religious scholars urge boycott of ‘fake’ elections
Oct 10, 2018 10:07Bahraini clerics have denounced the planned parliamentary elections as “a sham,” saying such a vote in the Persian Gulf island State, which has stripped a majority of its people of their basic rights, will fail to deceive the world’s public opinion.
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Bahraini opposition Wefaq announces boycott of parliamentary elections
Oct 10, 2018 01:57Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, which has been dissolved and banned from conducting any activity by the ruling Ale Khalifah regime, has announced a boycott of the kingdom's upcoming parliamentary elections.
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Bahraini regime committed some 850 grave human rights violations in July: Rights group
Oct 07, 2018 11:53An independent human rights group has documented 844 cases of grave human rights violations in Bahrain during the month of July as the ruling Ale Khalifeh regime relentlessly continues with its crackdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom.
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Bahrain signs $10 billion financial support agreement with Persian Gulf allies
Oct 06, 2018 04:03Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have agreed to give Bahrain 10 billions of dollars as financial support as the Persian Gulf kingdom’s economy struggles with a current account gap and a large state budget deficit, which have dragged down prices of its international bonds and pushed its national currency to a 17-year low against the US dollar.
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Son of jailed Bahraini activist end hunger strike in London
Oct 05, 2018 03:01The son of one of Bahrain’s most prominent political prisoners has ended his hunger strike outside the Bahraini embassy in London after 15 British MPs agreed to take up his father’s case.