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Bahrain: Ayatollah Isa Qassim slams participation in parliamentary election as ‘betrayal’
Nov 12, 2022 02:03Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar has reiterated the call to boycott parliamentary elections, saying participation in the elections amounts to betrayal.
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Ayatollah Isa Qassim: Parliamentary elections in Bahrain aimed at destroying democracy
Nov 10, 2022 08:54Bahrain’s most prominent religious figure has called for a boycott of the country’s forthcoming parliamentary elections, saying the sham vote is meant to "slaughter democracy" in the Persian Gulf island state, as the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime is insistently exercising its heavy-handed crackdown on dissent.
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Bahrainis continue to stage rallies to condemn, boycott 'sham' elections
Nov 08, 2022 10:36Protesters in Bahrain have staged fresh rallies to condemn and boycott what they call sham parliamentary elections planned for next week.
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Families of Bahraini political prisoners threatened, prevented from seeing Pope
Nov 06, 2022 09:20Bahrain’s security forces have threatened the families of political prisoners with arrest and prevented them from seeing Pope Francis, in an attempt to blackout one of the most controversial topics of human rights in the tiny Persian Gulf state.
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Bahrain says to continue to advance ties with Israeli regime
Nov 06, 2022 04:31In further normalization with the Israeli apartheid regime, Bahrain has said it will continue to build its partnership with Israel as former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies are about to form the most extremist regime in the history of Israeli apartheid.
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Relatives of Bahraini death row, life inmates call for their freedom as Pope visits kingdom
Nov 06, 2022 03:36The relatives of death row and life inmates have held a protest really along the visiting Pope Francis' motorcade route, urging him to pressure the kingdom to free political prisoners in the Persian Gulf state.
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Aal-e Khalifah regime exploiting Pope’s visit to cover up its crimes: Bahrain's opposition group
Nov 04, 2022 09:06Bahrain's main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says the ruling Al Khalifah regime is exploiting the ongoing visit by Pope Francis to the tiny Persian Gulf island state in order to cover up its gross human rights violations and repressive measures against democracy advocates.
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Forthcoming elections solely aimed at strengthening tyranny in Bahrain: Grand Ayatollah Qassim
Nov 03, 2022 09:29Bahrain’s most prominent religious scholar has dismissed the country’s upcoming parliamentary polls, saying the ruling Aal-e Khalifah minority regime wants to maintain its grip on power and strengthen tyranny in the tiny Persian Gulf island state by means of the ballots cast in the elections.
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Bahraini courts hand down death sentences to four more political dissidents
Oct 10, 2022 12:40A London-based human rights organization says Bahraini courts have convicted and sentenced four anti-regime activists to death following unfair trials and based on confessions coerced through torture and ill-treatment.
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Normalization deals enormously benefited Israel’s arm industry: Report
Oct 10, 2022 08:54A report says the Israeli arms industry has disproportionately benefited from the warming of ties between Israel and some Arab countries, as deals worth more than $3 billion have been signed between the regime and three countries that normalized their ties with it in the past two years.