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The Duke of York will be the keynote speaker at a conference in London this Friday celebrating Bahrain as a place of religious freedom and tolerance of divergent opinions. Speaking during a visit to Bahrain last month, he said: “I believe that what’s happening in Bahrain is a source of …

The Duke of York will be the keynote speaker at a conference in London this Friday celebrating Bahrain as a place of religious freedom and tolerance of divergent opinions. Speaking during a visit to Bahrain last month, he said: “I believe that what’s happening in Bahrain is a source of hope …

The historic mosque of Sa’sa’a bin Suhan in Askar, south to Manama, has once again been attacked. The front doors and belongings of the mosque were broken down and vandalized. The repeated systematic attacks are carried out with unannounced official support. The mosque goes back to more than 1000 years. …

A Bahraini Shia leader says the ruling Al Khalifa regime has officially declared a war on the Shia faith by expelling the representative of Iraq-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. In a Friday speech, Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassem condemned the Al Khalifa regime over expulsion of Sheikh Hussein al-Najati, the representative …

24 April 2014 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged the Government of Bahrain to stop the harassment and persecution of a Shi’a Muslim leader who was reportedly forced to leave the country following threats from State security agents to arrest him and his son. Heiner Bielefeldt, …

MANAMA, Bahrain: Bahrain’s interior ministry says a homemade bomb has exploded just outside the capital, Manama, wounding a policeman. The ministry says the blast happened Friday in the village of Daih. The same area was the scene of a bomb attack in March that killed three policemen. An investigation into …

A court in Bahrain has sentenced 12 teenagers to life in prison for allegedly attempting take a police officer’s life, setting a police car ablaze and taking part in an anti-regime protest, a defense lawyer says. Other defendants were sentenced to up to 51 years in prison for similar charges …

A Bahraini court on Wednesday jailed 29 people, including an award winning photographer, for up to 10 years for an alleged attack on a police center in April 2012. A judicial source and activists said the verdicts were based on defendants’ confessions that were extracted under torture. Twenty-six of those …

Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja was released from prison on Sunday after nearly a year behind bars for multiple convictions including participation in a so-called “illegal” gathering. Friends and supporters greeted her in a coffee shop in a main mall hours after her release. The cafe has served as a gathering …

Shia-dominated opposition says it wants a constitutional monarchy and equality in the Sunni-ruled Kingdom. Bahrain’s Shia opposition has unveiled a roadmap for restarting national dialogue talks suspended last month, and renewed demands for a constitutional monarchy in the Sunni-ruled kingdom. The proposals were published on Saturday on the eve of the …