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Prisoner Dies in Sickle Cell Complications
2021-07-27
The Bahraini Interior Ministry announced the death of a 35-year-old prisoner after suffering from sickle cell complications.
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Campaign to Stop Death Sentences in Bahrain
2021-07-27
Bahraini opposition forces have decided to launch a social media campaign to demand the halt of death sentences in Bahrain.
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Amnesty Int'l Urges Bahraini Authorities to Immediately Release Mushaima and Al-Singace
2021-07-24
Amnesty International demanded on Friday (July 23, 2021) the immediate release of the two detained activists Hassan Mushaima and Abduljalil Al-Singace.
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BCHR Calls on Authorities to Release Political Prisoners, Start Constructive National Dialogue
2021-07-24
"The release of political prisoners is the necessary first step to pave the way for a constructive national dialogue that brings together all parties and lays the foundation for a new era in Bahrain, and today's Eid is an ideal time for such a step," said Nedal Al-Salman, president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR).
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Emirates Targets Bahraini HR Activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei through Israeli Spying Program
2021-07-23
Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei, director of advocacy at the UK-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, said that the UAE government has targeted him through the Israeli Pegasus spying program.
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Saudi PIF in Talks to Acquire Stake in McLaren
2021-07-20
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Ares Management will invest £400m into the British-based automotive giant, Sky News reported.
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Al-Wefaq Today More Certain in Bahrain's Need for Political Project Providing Guarantees for Citizens (Statement)
2021-07-20
Al-Wefaq today is more confident and certain in Bahrain's need for a comprehensive political project that provides political guarantees that render the citizen a human being who enjoys all his political rights and freedoms and is able to live in peace, stability and unlimited ambition in all areas of life.
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Israeli Firm Monitors Phones of More than 180 Journalists and Activists around the World, including Saudi Arabia & Bahrain: The Guardian
2021-07-20
The British "The Guardian" newspaper revealed that the Israeli technology firm NSO Group targeted editor of the Financial Times and more than 180 editors, investigative reporters and other journalists around the world through surveillance program provided to its government clients across the world, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
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Amnesty: Hassan Mushaima One of Prominent Detainees in World Struggling for his Rights in Difficult Health Conditions
2021-07-19
Amnesty International, in its Spanish version, specialized a paper on one of the political prisoners, the Bahraini Hassan Mushaima. Amnesty described him as one of the prominent detainees in the world, noting that he is suffering in the Bahrain regime prisons.
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Bahrain Working with ICAO on Technical Arrangements for Regional Air Traffic Safety
2021-07-17
Bahrain Minister of Transport and Telecommunications said in a statement on Thursday the Gulf kingdom is working with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to introduce the necessary technical arrangements to ensure the safety of international air traffic in the region.
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How did Nasser bin Hamad Lure Former MP Khalid Abdulal Back to Bahrain?
2021-07-16
In February, former MP Khalid Abdulal returned to Bahrain after apologizing to the King and Interior Ministry. He was promised by the king’s son that no one would harm him. After two weeks only, he was summoned and arrested.
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Cycling-Tour's Bahrain Victorious Targeted by Doping Investigation
2021-07-16
French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into doping allegations against Tour de France cycling team Bahrain Victorious after police searched the outfit's accommodation and bus on Wednesday following the 17th stage of the race.
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UAE Opens Israel Embassy after Normalization Deal
2021-07-16
The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv's new stock exchange building, in the latest normalization move under a deal brokered by Washington last year.
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Salam Points to Growing Interest of French parliamentarians in Human Rights issues in Bahrain
2021-07-15
Three French parliamentarians submitted questions to the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs on the human rights situation in Bahrain.
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Hamad bin Jassim Considers Qatar's Restoration of Sovereignty over its Airspace "Correction of Historic Mistake"
2021-07-15
Prime Minister and former Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani said the decision to restore Doha's airspace from Bahrain is a "victory and correction of a historic mistake" that was made earlier with good faith motives to open a new page for relations between the two countries.
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Death Sentences Drastically Escalating, Families of Convicted Live in Fear: HR Report
2021-07-15
"We don't know when we will wake up and hear my husband is going to be executed. He has lost all his appeals and his sentence is final. So we pray every single day that an execution will not take place," this is how Zainab, wife of one of the death convict detainees, expressed her fear over her husband's life.
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Int'l Demands to Release Hunger Strike Detainee Abduljalil Al-Singace
2021-07-15
Heba Morayef, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Director, demanded the immediate and unconditional release of detainee Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace and other prisoners, including Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and Hassan Mushaima, who were convicted for exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly.
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Bahrain Prevents Its Companies from Carrying out any Activity in Russian-Controlled Crimea
2021-07-14
"Bahrain is preventing Bahraini companies from carrying out any activities in the temporarily occupied Crimea," Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told a Ukrainian official.
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Gov't Discusses Labor Market Plan which Aims at Creating Job Opportunities to Bahrainis
2021-07-14
The Cabinet approved during its session a memorandum by the Government Executive Committee on the National Labor Market Plan 2021-2023 which aims at creating quality job opportunities for citizens and making them the best choice for employment.
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ICAO Council Agrees with Qatar's Proposal to Establish Doha Flight Information Region
2021-07-14
The United Nation's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has given Qatar the green light for a new Doha Airspace to establish its own Flight Information Region (FIR) in its airspace.