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Mohieddin Khan’s Dangerous Confessions, Bahraini Security in Trap
2019-07-24
The Secretary-General of the National Adala (Justice) movement, extremist Salafist Mohieddin Khan didn’t deny the content of “Al-Jazeera” tape and didn’t even show interest to justify anything, whether in terms of what mentioned in “What is Hidden is Worse” or in terms of what his companions in the terrorist cells said inside the chambers of the National Security Agency. He only acquitted himself of being the one who sold the tape. He says in a video he recorded in response on what he described as “Fabrications of Bahrain Television report”: “It is very big and not good to accuse me of this case.”
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Justice Ministry Grants Lawyers One Month to Correct their Statuses according to Anti-Terrorism Law
2019-07-23
Lawyers received a letter from the registrar general at the Ministry of Justice binding them to submit the financial audit reports pursuant to law 4/2001 regarding prohibiting and combating money laundering and the funding of terrorism and law 64/2017, within one month as a deadline from the ministry to reconcile their situations.
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Detainee Ali Al-Ghanemi Demands Investigating Attack They Suffered in Building 13 in Jaw Prison
2019-07-23
Detainee Ali Al-Ghanemi demanded the competent parties to take action in order to save him as well as the other political prisoners who are being ill-treated and tortured due to demanding their rights.
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Author Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Says Orders Made to Stop him from Writing in Akhbar Al-Khaleej
2019-07-23
Page of Bahraini journalist author Ibrahim Al-Sheikh on Twitter indicates that his ban to write didn't come from Akhbar Al-Khaleej.
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Detainee Hussein Al-Sehlawi Held in Isolation, Denied Treatment: HR Activist
2019-07-23
Detainee Hussein Al-Sehlawi is suffering from "persecution" as he is denied his right to treatment, human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said. She added that he is not allowed to contact prisoners and is held in solitary confinement.
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Health of Detainee Mohammad Al-Singace Deteriorates after 28 Days of Hunger Strike
2019-07-23
Human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that detainee Mohammad Al-Singace, who is on hunger strike, suffered a health setback due to a severe drop in blood sugar level, and was transferred to the prison's clinic as a result.
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Political Prisoners in Building 13 in Jaw Prison Beaten, Insulted, Transferred to Solitary Confinement
2019-07-23
Human rights activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh confirmed that a number of prisoners in building 13 in Jaw Central Prison were beaten, insulted and put in solitary confinement after demanding their rights.
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Cassation Court Upholds 3-Year Jail Verdict against 3 Suspects over Assembling in Jannusan
2019-07-23
The Court of Cassation upheld a 3-year jail term against 3 peaceful protestors accused of assembling in Jannusan.
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Authorities Refuse to Apply "Alternative Punishment Law" on Detainee Khalil Al-Halwachi
2019-07-23
Family of prisoner of conscience and leader in Amal Society, Khalil Al-Halwachi, said that the authorities have officially rejected to alternate his prison term verdict with another one within the alternative punishment law.
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Bahraini MP Jamal Bou Hasan: New Guest of “Players with Fire”
2019-07-22
Whenever Bahraini government loyalists talk in defense of the ruling family, they add new evidence of further involvement. Former MP Jamal Bou Hasan who appeared on the Saudi 24 Channel to “reveal the fallacies, contradictions and falsifications in the ‘What is Hidden is Worse’ show, is not the last one to prove the ruling family’s involvement.
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Israel Gets Ready to Receive Arab Journalists including Saudis and Iraqis
2019-07-22
Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz announced in a statement on Sunday that a delegation of 6 Arab journalists, including a Saudi and an Iraqi, will visit Israel.
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Jared Kushner Returns to Middle East Later this Month
2019-07-22
Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior advisor to President Donald Trump, will return to the Middle East later this month to discuss the Trump administration's forthcoming Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a senior US official told The Times of Israel.
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586 Convicts Benefited from Alternative Punishment, No Political Prisoners Included
2019-07-22
The Public Prosecution said that the number of convicts who made use of the alternative punishment since its implementation on May has reached 586, noting that they didn't include political prisoners.
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Why Did Hisham Al-Baloushi Return to Iran? How Did He Get Hold of Half a Million?
2019-07-20
It is true that Jamal Al-Baloushi, brother of Hisham Al-Baloushi, confirmed that Hisham had a “good relationship with security agencies in Bahrain”. His testimony aired on state television; however, does not reveal the nature of his relationship with the Bahraini intelligence and probably the intelligence of neighboring countries.
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Hamas: Photo of Bahrain and Israel Foreign Ministers Reflects "State of Zionism" Some Arabs Reached
2019-07-20
The Palestinian Hamas movement said that the picture that brought together the foreign ministers of Bahrain and Israel in Washington reflects the state of the "Zionism" reached by some Arab officials.
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Israeli, Bahrain FMs Hold First Public Meeting in US: AFP
2019-07-20
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday announced that he had met his Bahrain counterpart publicly during a visit to Washington, the first meeting between the two countries that do not have diplomatic relations.
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Trial of 2 Officers, 10 Policemen Accused of Beating Prisoners in Jaw Prison Adjourned
2019-07-20
Bahrain’s Minor Criminal Court adjourned the trial of 12 security service men, including two officers, accused of mistreating a number of inmates in Jaw Central Prison by beatings, after hearing the statements of the investigating officer until September 19, to enter final plea.
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Gibraltar Extends Detention of Iranian Tanker for a Month
2019-07-20
Gibraltar was granted the power on Friday to detain Iran's Grace 1 oil tanker for another month, keeping the vessel at the center of a big-power quarrel between Iran and the United States and its allies.
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Trump Meets with Airline CEOs over Qatar Subsidy Accusations
2019-07-20
U.S. President Donald Trump met on Thursday with the chief executives of major American airlines to discuss their accusations that subsidies by Qatar and United Arab Emirates are costing jobs in the United States.
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Bahrain Spent 17 Million BD on Social Security Beneficiaries Last Year
2019-07-20
Official statistics revealed that total state expenditure on social security beneficiaries from 2007 to 2019 amounted to about a quarter of a billion Bahraini dinars.