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Bahrainis protest in support of Shia cleric Sheikh Qassim
May 20, 2017 04:49People in Bahrain have poured onto the streets of the northern village of Abu Saiba to express their solidarity with prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim ahead of his trial by the regime.
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Prominent Bahraini activist slams US arms sales to Manama, Riyadh
May 18, 2017 02:17Prominent Bahraini Human Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab has slammed the US government for arms sales to the Manama regime and Saudi Arabia.
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UN calls on Bahrain to release prominent human rights activist
May 13, 2017 00:54The United Nations Committee against Torture has called on the Bahraini regime to release the country’s prominent human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab, and open an investigation into widespread reports of ill-treatment and torture of detainees.
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Bahrain bars HRW staffer from FIFA congress amid crackdown on dissent
May 11, 2017 00:37The Bahraini regime has refused entry visa to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) activist scheduled to attend the annual FIFA congress in Bahrain, as the Persian Gulf kingdom's brutal crackdown on dissent persists.
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Bahraini court upholds death, life sentences for dissidents
May 10, 2017 10:28A Bahraini court has upheld the death and life sentences against three political activists over their alleged involvement in an attack on regime forces.
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Bahrain refers first civilian to military court: Amnesty
May 10, 2017 03:53Amnesty International reports that Manama has referred its first civilian case to military court for trial in accordance with a constitutional reform amendment approved by the king.
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Shroud-clad Bahrainis rally ahead of cleric’s trial
May 07, 2017 03:00Attired in shrouds, Bahrainis are rallying countrywide in support of the island’s most senior Shia cleric, who has been stripped of his citizenship and is to be tried for charges widely denounced as politically-influenced.
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Bahraini clerics demand mass rallies in support of Sheikh Qassim
May 07, 2017 02:38Bahraini clerics have called on people from all walks of life to stage nationwide rallies on the eve of the trial of distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, whom the ruling Ale Khalifah dynasty has stripped of his citizenship and mulls his expulsion from the kingdom.
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UN, US, EU urged to act on Sheikh Qassim’s plight
May 06, 2017 01:55Bahraini and international human rights activist groups write to the United Nations, the United States and the European Union, urging them to take action against Manama’s persecution of the kingdom’s most senior Shia cleric.
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Ayatollah Qassim’s trial persecution of Bahraini Shia Muslims: Sheikh Salman
May 05, 2017 15:56Secretary General of Bahrain’s al-Wefaq National Islamic Society Sheikh Ali Salman says the prosecution Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim amounts to persecution and targeting of the entire Shia-Muslim community by the Aal-e Khalifa minority regime in Bahrain.