Amnesty slams Saudi Arabia over Shia cleric verdict 1 5 August, 2014 – Shia Post Amnesty International has slammed Saudi Arabia for handing down a harsh verdict to a leading Shia cleric in the country. Amnesty International said on Thursday that the harsh sentence of Sheikh Tawfiq al-Amr shows the disturbing pattern of harassment against more »
Month: August 2014
Bahrain Kingdom of Injustice 22 new Political Prisoners to its list of detained on false charges
Bahrain regime imprisons 22 Shiite over anti-regime protests 17 August, 2014 – PRessTV The Bahraini regime has given jail terms to 22 activists for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf country. The Bahraini regime has given jail terms to 22 activists for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in the Persian Gulf country. more »
Prisoner of Conscience Nabeel Rajab Speaks about Prison Ordeal
Opposition fill streets of Bahrain with ceaseless protest since Massacre at Pearl Roundabout Feb.2011
Bahrainis to Hold Protest Rallies 15 August, 2014 – Tasim News Agency TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Bahrain’s political and revolutionary forces have called on the Persian Gulf country’s people to take part in protest rallies on Friday. They urged people to hold anti-regime demonstrations and insist on the withdrawal of Saudi and Emirati forces from Bahrain, more »
Bahrain's 'injustice system' heaps sectarian motived sentences on opposition protesters
Bahrain’s ‘injustice-system’ issues anti-Shia jail terms up to 434 years 14 August, 2014 – ABNA A Bahraini court has handed life sentences to 14 citizens in relation to the political crisis in the country. Another 12 citizens have been sentenced to 7 years in prison, making a sum of 434 years for all 26. A more »
Neoliberal Profiteering more important than Human Rights and Democracy in Bahrain
Business Interests Are More Valuable to Bahrain’s Western Allies Than Democracy and Human Rights 17 August, 2014 – Business Insider I was sentenced to two years in prison for holding what authorities in Bahrain described as “illegal demonstrations” in 2012. In actual fact I was doing my legitimate and peaceful human rights work. I have more »
Paying The Price for Britian's Silence on al Kahlifa's Crimal Conduct and Murderous Reign in Bahrain
Bahrain's belligerence includes British bruises with long arm of injustice and abuse
Bahrain: Harassment of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab at Heathrow Airport 31 Jul, 2014 – BCHR The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) express their concern over the harassment and ill-treatment of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab and his family at the hands of the authorities more »
Bahrain Children in Chains – Hostages in a Tyrant King's, Politics of Repression
Children of Bahrain: Those who oppose the regime are in prisons 01 August, 2014 – Shafaqna SHAFAQNA – Why are more than 190 Bahraini children spending Eid inside the prison cells of the “Prison Island” as, the US Assistant Secretary of State, Tom Malinowski described it? The very first Eid to occur during the period more »