Bahrain News
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Bahrain's king Sunday ordered the citizenship of 551 Bahrainis to be restored, after his country was harshly criticised by the UN and rights groups for revoking people's nationalities.
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Dubai -
King Hamad has ordered that the citizenship of 551 Bahrainis revoked by courts be restored, official media said Sunday, days after a senior UN official expressed concern about the punishment.
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By AFP
Dubai -
The Gulf state of Bahrain Tuesday jailed 138 people and revoked their citizenship for plotting to form a "terror" group with links to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the public prosecutor said.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Bahrain of using this weekend's Formula One race to "sportwash" its image, amid an intense crackdown on political dissent in the Gulf kingdom.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Ex-Socceroos captain Craig Foster was capped 29 times for his country, but believes the fight to free Hakeem al-Araibi was the most important battle of his life and vital for saving football's soul.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ramped up pressure on Bangkok to release a refugee footballer held on a Bahrain extradition request, as sporting authorities cancelled two events in Thailand over his detention.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
A refugee footballer fighting an extradition request appealed for his freedom Monday, pleading "please don't send me to Bahrain" as he arrived in shackles at a Bangkok court, which extended his detention by another two months.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
A refugee footballer fighting an extradition request pleaded for his freedom Monday, saying "please don't send me to Bahrain" as he arrived in shackles at a Bangkok court, which extended his detention by another two months.
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By AFP
Dubai -
A Bahraini court on Monday upheld a life sentence for opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman for spying for Gulf rival Qatar, a ruling his party slammed as "political revenge".
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By AFP
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Activists for the detained Bahraini footballer who fears torture and even death if he is extradited from Thailand have criticised the "gagging" of talk about the case at the Asian Cup, warning it is harming his cause.
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The International Olympic Committee on Saturday joined in the chorus of support for a footballer with refugee status who has been detained in Thailand for nearly two months over his alleged role in Bahrain's Arab Spring protests.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
Former Australia football captain Craig Foster said on Friday a Bahraini refugee player held in Thailand is a 'test' for FIFA, as rights groups try to duplicate the asylum success story of a Saudi woman who avoided deportation from the country.
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By AFP
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The United States and Poland will hold an international meeting on the Middle East that will seek to build pressure on Iran next month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday.
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By AFP
Manama -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Bahrain on Friday, the first leg of a tour of Gulf monarchies which Washington says are "critical" to confronting Iran and jihadists.
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By AFP
Dubai -
A prominent Bahraini activist, who played a key role in the 2011 Shiite-led anti-government protests, on Monday lost his final appeal against a five-year jail term for writing tweets deemed offensive to the state.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrain's supreme court, whose verdicts are final, Monday upheld a five-year jail term against prominent activist Nabeel Rajab for writing tweets deemed offensive to the state, a judicial source said.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
A former Bahrain national footballer with Australian refugee status must remain in detention in Thailand as he awaits possible extradition, a Bangkok court said Tuesday, as campaigners say they fear he could be "tortured" if returned to the Gulf state....
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrain has said it "completely rejects" attempts to tarnish the reputation of neighbouring Saudi Arabia, whose powerful crown prince has been under intense scrutiny since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was due to visit Bahrain on Sunday on the second leg of a regional tour, his first since critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrain holds a parliamentary election Saturday amid boycott calls from dissolved opposition groups which have been banned from taking part.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrainis headed to the polls Saturday amid calls to boycott the parliamentary election in which dissolved opposition groups have been banned from taking part.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Amnesty International said Friday it was "gravely concerned" by Bahrain's suppression of political opposition, a day ahead of the parliamentary election.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrain's public prosecutor on Tuesday detained and charged a man for a tweet saying he would boycott elections this month, with a rights group identifying him as a former lawmaker.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrain's top criminal court on Monday sentenced four Shiite Muslims to death for a 2017 bombing that killed a policeman in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, a judicial official and the public prosecutor said.
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By AFP
Tehran -
Iran has condemned Bahrain over the jailing for life of a Shiite opposition leader, accusing Manama of wanting to "intensify its suppression" of dissent.
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By AFP
Doha -
Qatar denied Monday accusations it interfered in Bahrain's internal affairs after a Manama court sentenced the head of the Shiite opposition to life in jail for spying for Doha.
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By AFP
Dubai -
Bahrain sentenced the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement to life in prison Sunday for spying for rival Gulf state Qatar in a ruling rights groups have called a travesty.
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Bahrain's main opposition group called Tuesday for a boycott of November parliamentary elections after its members were banned from running.
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Bahrain on Thursday announced a fiscal overhaul aimed at balancing its budget by 2022, backed up by a $10-billion support package from key Gulf allies. The plan aims to save 800 million Bahraini dinars ($2.1 billion, 1.
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Bahraini prisoners suffering cancer, multiple sclerosis and sickle-cell anaemia do not have access to medical care, Amnesty International said Friday, accusing local authorities of "negligence".
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Bahrain Image
A tent in Pearl Roundabout, Manama.
A protest sign has fallen to the ground in Pearl Roundabout, Manama.
Bahrain: Anti-government protesters throw stones at riot police during clashes with police in the village of Sanabis west of Manama With permission by Reuters / Hamad I Mohammed
Fatma is paralysed and has been sitting on the mattress in this bedroom for eight years.
The Foreign Minister of Bahrain meets Saudi Arabia's aging monarch HM Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (L) Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs
A Shia girl at the Pearl Roundabout sit-in, Manama.
File photo: Meeting of Turkish Foreign Ministry and GCC Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Assange's "The World Tomorrow" Ep. 4 - Nabeel Rajab, Bahrain. Video Screen Capture
Anti-government protesters sit by the roadside with molotov cocktails as they wait for others to join during clashes with riot police in the village of Sanabis west of Manama With permission by Reuters / Hamad I Mohammed
Bahrain: Anti-government protesters throw stones at riot police during clashes with police in the village of Sanabis west of Manama With permission by Reuters / Hamad I Mohammed
Photographers and citizen journalists hold a banner of their fellow photographers currently in prison saying during an anti-government protest organized by Bahrain's main opposition party al-Wefaq in the village of Bilad al-Qadeem, south of Manama With permission by Reuters
Assange's "The World Tomorrow" Ep. 4 - Nabeel Rajab and Julian Assange. Video Screen Capture
Ahmed and Fatma receive BD30 (approx. £49) per moth in government support each month.
A 123 m (404 ft) high fountain off the coast of Manama. The mechanism is contained in a barge, anchored to the seabed. Vladimir Arshinov (User:Vladimir_arsh
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Nabeel Rajab and Abdulhadi Alkhawaja helping an old woman after police attacked a peaceful protest in August 2010 Mohamed CJ
Violence in Bahrain. shaffeem
Bahrain bans the Guy Fawkes "Anonymous" mask from protests YouTube
The Bahraini capital Manama at night. Navin Shetty Brahmavar
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