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Over 100 rights groups urge Bahrain to ‘immediately release’ Nabeel Rajab
Aug 30, 2018 01:41More than 100 rights groups have called on Bahrain to "immediately release" prominent opposition figure and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab after the United Nations condemned his detention as "arbitrary" and "discriminatory."
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Bahrain suspends issuing visas for Qataris amid growing diplomatic spat
Aug 21, 2018 15:02Bahrain’s Interior Ministry has announced that it would stop issuing new entry visas to Qatari nationals in the wake of the ongoing Saudi-led diplomatic and trade boycott against energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom of Qatar.
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Bahraini religious scholar’s continued detention political revenge: Wefaq
Aug 18, 2018 12:41Bahrain’s main Shia Muslim opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has denounced the continued imprisonment of its prominent leader and former lawmaker Sheikh Hassan Issa as “political revenge.”
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UN experts call for release of top Bahraini campaigner Nabeel Rajab
Aug 16, 2018 13:41UN human rights experts say Bahrain's detention of prominent opposition figure and leading pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab is unlawful and violates his right to freedom of expression.
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Amnesty slams Bahrain’s ‘cruel, inhumane’ treatment of jailed activists
Aug 07, 2018 02:26Amnesty International has blasted Bahrain for denying vital medical care to jailed pro-democracy activists, saying the cruel and inhumane practice is putting the prisoners’ lives at risk.
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HRW asks Bahrain’s Ale Khalifah regime to restore citizenship to 100s of nationals
Jul 28, 2018 02:13Human Rights Watch has called on Bahraini authorities to restore citizenship to hundreds of nationals, whom have been affected by executive orders or court decisions as the ruling Ale Khalifah regime pushes ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners, journalists and religious scholars.
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Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim leaves ICU after ‘successful’ operation in London
Jul 26, 2018 14:56Bahrain’s religious scholar, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, has come out of the intensive care unit (ICU) after undergoing a “successful” operation at a London hospital, his entourage says.
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UK doubles arms deals with governments on its own rights blacklist
Jul 19, 2018 07:44The UK has almost doubled its arms deals with governments that it has blacklisted as violators of human rights, figures show.
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Bahrain: Five activists sentenced to prison by Aal-e Khalifa regime
Jul 12, 2018 14:19A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to five anti-regime protesters as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah minority regime does not shy away from its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf island State.
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Bahraini court upholds jail sentence for 3 dissidents
Jul 12, 2018 01:47A Bahraini court has rejected the appeal of three dissidents sentenced to 10 years in prison.