Saudi Arabia to allow women in the Kingdom drive unaccompanied to Bahrain
Sputnik – Women from Saudi Arabia will be able to drive cars and cross into neighboring Bahrain by car without men on…
Tag Archives: Bahrain
3 Shia Bahraini clerics sentenced to death, 8 others to life imprisonment
Press TV – Bahraini regime officials have handed down death sentences to three Shia clergymen and condemned eight others to life imprisonment…
Bahrain king signs off on law banning opposition figures from running in elections
Press TV – Bahrain’s king has signed into law a contentious bill recently adopted by the parliament, which bans figures of dissolved…
Bahrainis condemn crackdown against Shia scholars
Press TV – Bahrainis have rallied near the capital Manama, condemning the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s crackdown on Shia scholars, including prominent…
Clashes erupt as Bahrainis protest against F1 championship race
Press TV – Bahraini forces have clashed with people protesting against the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix, a Formula One motor race, as…
Bahrain orders withdrawal, reprinting of 17,000 textbooks for ‘correcting’ Persian Gulf name
Press TV – Bahrain says it has ordered the republication of an English textbook printed overseas for third graders over what Manama called…
Iran vehemently rejects Bahrain’s accusations about oil pipeline bombing
Press TV – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has vehemently dismissed Bahrain’s baseless accusations about links between Tehran and a number of suspects in a…
‘Not too far-fetched’ to see Bahraini King’s nationality revoked
MNA – Iranian official Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Mon. that it would not be too far-fetched if the nationality of Bahraini King was…
Bahrain crisis: All repression, no toleration make things worse
Alwaght – The West-backed regime’s pressures begin to build on the people in Bahrain as the country draws closer to February, the…
KSA, UAE, Bahrain front against Iran in Davos ‘strategic flaw’
MNA – Iranian Parliament’s General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian posted a message on his Twitter account condemning the joint rhetoric…
Bahrain human rights situation deteriorates as world unconcerned: Activists
Press TV – Pro-democracy campaigners have warned about the significant deterioration of human rights in Bahrain, stating that the ease of international…
Leader urges Muslims’ focus on Yemen, Bahrain, Palestine
Tasnim – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on the Islamic Ummah (community) to pay special attention to…
Bahraini regime forces jail Shia cleric for supporting Sheikh Isa Qassim
Press TV – Bahraini regime officials have sentenced a Shia clergyman to one year in prison over his support for prominent Shia…
Bahrain’s Al Khalifah regime deports youth for supporting Sheikh Qassim
Press TV – Bahraini regime officials have deported a young man to neighboring Saudi Arabia over his support for prominent Shia cleric,…
Bahraini protesters condemn hefty sentences for activists
Press TV – Bahrainis have taken to the streets in several areas of the Persian Gulf kingdom to vent their anger at…
Bahrain military court gives death sentence to six dissidents
Press TV – A court in Bahrain has sentenced six anti-regime protesters to death and revoked their citizenship as the ruling Al…
Bahrain FM’s anti-Iran comments not worth answering
MNA – Parliament Speaker Special Aide on International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian strongly condemned foolish comments of Bahrain’s foreign minister against Iran’s history.…
Death or confession: Report on torture of civilians in Bahrain’s first military trial
Alwaght – Four Bahraini human rights organizations issued a report under the title of “Death or Confession”, a report that monitors the violations…
Spokesman blasts Bahrain FM’s anti-Iran remarks
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Saturday deplored anti-Iran remarks made by Bahraini foreign minister. The Bahraini diplomat, Sheikh…
Bahraini regime forces detain 6 civilians with no charge: Activists
Press TV – Activists say Bahraini forces have held six civilians, including a woman, without offering any legal justification for their detention as the…
Bahraini scholars condemn civil society group’s visit to Israel
Press TV – More than 130 Bahraini scholars have strongly condemned the recent visit by an inter-faith group of residents from the…
Bahraini king sends delegation to Israel for ‘peace’: Paper
Press TV – A Bahraini delegation has arrived in Israel with a message from the country’s king, in the latest instance of warming…
Prominent Bahraini Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim’s health worsening: Activists
Press TV – A human rights group says the health condition of Bahrain’s top Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been…
EU human rights policies, unbalanced: Iran official
IRNA – Although Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are big violators of human rights, the West has good relations with them, secretary of…
Sheikh Salman to be tried later this month on ‘espionage’ charges: Bahrain’s judiciary
Press TV – The Bahraini judiciary says it will try prominent Shia cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman later this month on a…
Iran to Bahrain: Stop childish blame game
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ghasemi censured Bahrain for blaming Iran for every incident that happens in the island nation, the…
Bahraini courts hand down prison terms to three Shia clerics
Press TV – Courts in Bahrain have separately handed down prison sentences between six months and one year to three Shia Muslim…
Bahraini court hands down jail terms to 17 in mass trial
Press TV – A Bahraini court has handed down heavy jail sentences to more than a dozen people in a mass trial as…
Bahrain calls for freezing of Qatar’s PGCC membership
Press TV – Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifah has warned that his country will not attend an upcoming Persian Gulf Cooperation…
Health of hunger strikers in Bahrain prison worsen amid cruel treatment
Press TV – Health conditions of five female Bahraini activists that have gone on a hunger strike in prison to protest their…
Bahraini prison water supply cut off for days: Rights group
Press TV – Guards at Bahrain’s Jaw Prison have cut off water in the notorious penitentiary for days and deprived the inmates…
Informed source: Security approaches in Bahrain makes situation more complicated
IRNA – An informed source in Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that intensification of security approaches and imposing obsolete punishments like denying…
Female inmates go on hunger strike at Bahraini jail over restrictions on visits
Press TV – Female inmates at a prison in Bahrain have gone on open-ended hunger strike in protest at the recent restrictions imposed…
Bahraini regime forces attack mourning Shia Muslims on Ashura
Press TV – Bahraini regime forces have attacked dozens of Shia Muslims commemorating the occasion of Ashura, which marks the martyrdom anniversary of Imam…
Bahrain, Israel could announce normalized ties: Report
Press TV – Bahraini and Western officials say Israel is on the path to normalize diplomatic ties with Bahrain as the two sides…
Bahrain using violent tactic to repress dissidents amid West inaction: Amnesty
Press TV – Amnesty international has censured Bahrain for using “an array of repression tools,” including torture and sexual abuse, in its…
Prominent Bahraini human rights activist hospitalized with food poisoning
Press TV – A Bahraini human rights group says the health condition of prominent Bahraini human rights advocate Ebtisam al-Saegh, who has repeatedly…
Iran rejects Bahrain ‘baseless’, ‘ridiculous’ accusations
IRNA – Iran Foreign Ministry on Friday rejected Bahrain Interior Ministry baseless and ridiculous accusations and urged the country officials to give…
Rights groups concerned over ‘enforced disappearance’ of Bahraini dissident
Press TV – Amnesty International and other rights groups have expressed concern over Bahrain’s conduct in the case of a dissident who…
Bahrain: “They want you to be broken and this is why we keep going”
Indexon Censorship – Human rights defenders often confront obstacles that make their work difficult. This is especially true in Bahrain, where the…