الرياضة والشباب

As the 6th anniversary of Saudi invasion of Bahrain approaches (14th March), preparations are being made to mark that black day which heralded the end of the Arab Spring. Saudi troops crossed the causeway and helped restore Alkhalifa hereditary dictatorship which was on the verge of collapse. Six yeas on, the ruling ...

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses great concern over the wellbeing and access to medical care of the detainee Elias Faisal Al-Mulla, who is suffering from stage 3 colon cancer, and whose family is unable to get consistent up to date reports of his medical status. Elias Faisal ...

Bahraini authorities have restored the right to arrest human rights campaigners and political dissidents to intelligence agents as the ruling Al Khalifah family is pressing ahead with its heavy crackdown on public demands for reforms, democracy and an elected government. The head of public prosecution, Ahmed al-Dosari, announced in a decree ...

Regime forces in Bahrain have handed a warrant to prominent cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim to appear in court, after clashing with his supporters. Bahraini police forces used tear gas against Sheikh Qassim’s supporters around his residence in the western Diraz region of the country in a brutal effort to gain ...

Bahraini authorities continue to prevent citizens from performing the largest Friday prayers for the 28th week. Al-Manar correspondent reported that regime forces applied heavy measures, blocking streets leading to Imam Sadeq Mosque in the besieged town of Diraz. Diraz has been since June witnessing a sit-in by dozens of citizens, ...

Bahrain’s appeals court has ruled to uphold a nine-year jail sentence handed down to senior Shia opposition cleric, Sheikh Ali Salman, despite widespread criticism both at home and abroad against his imprisonment. A judicial source said the verdict was issued during a Monday trial session. On the eve of the ...

All aspects of the conflict in Bahrain can easily—and erroneously—be framed in sectarian terms: An overwhelming Shia Muslim majority is ruled by a Sunni Muslim royal family who bestow privileged, expedited citizenship on (Sunni) foreign nationals. These non-Bahrainis are then employed in the security sector to enforce authoritarian rule and ...

Bahrain released one of the Arab world’s best-known activists on Saturday after he served a two-year jail sentence for his role in pro-democracy protests in the US-allied kingdom, his son said and his lawyer said. Nabeel Rajab, co-founder and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), was found ...

As the clouds broke across Britain this week and many of us stretched our faces towards the sunlight, breathing in the summer breeze, not all were so lucky as to enjoy such a reprieve. It’s not the grey British sky, however, but the cold stone walls and repressive bureaucracy of ...

A Bahraini royal family member might be stripped of his diplomatic immunity in the UK after an opposition protester, who accuses him of involvement in torture, has been given permission to challenge his immunity from prosecution. The judicial review proceedings were brought by a Bahraini citizen in Britain after Bahrain’s ...