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Bahraini Authorities Impose Travel Ban on Nabeel Rajab…FIDH Criticizes Decision
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), said that the Bahraini authorities imposed a travel ban on the president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab.
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Bahrain’s Education Ministry Says Detained Students Will be Transferred to “Enrollment System”
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror: Commenting on information stating that about 300 detained students are being deprived of education in schools, the Bahraini Ministry of Education said it is transferring all the detained students to an enrollment system.
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AFP: Bahrain's Gulf Air to Buy up to 50 Airbus Planes
2015-09-09
AFP: Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air is planning to buy up to 50 Airbus aircraft, the country's Information Minister Isa Abdulrahman Al Hammadi told AFP Tuesday.
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Detainee Parweez Calls his Family: I’m Not Fine
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror: Human rights defender and Chairman of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights, Hussein Jawad Parweez, said that his 68-year-old imprisoned father "Parweez" made a phone call to his family and sounded weary.
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Bahrain's SIU Received 8 Torture Complaints & Interrogated 21 Policemen in August
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror: Member of Bahrain’s Special Investigation Unit affiliated to the Public Prosecution, Mohammad Khalid Al-Hazza, said that the unit received last August, 21 complaints, including 8 torture allegations.
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Pro-ISIS Accounts Tweet about Bahraini Soldiers Killed in Yemen: They’re Doomed to Become Waste
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Twitter accounts supporting the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) launched an attack against the Bahraini authorities after announcing the deaths of 5 of its soldiers in a strike on a military base for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
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Bahrain...File of Journalistic Pieces that Ended the BBC’s Neutrality
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): For years, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was an example of media transparency and neutrality to a great extent in its tackling of global issues. Has this time ended? Yes, at least concerning Bahrain.
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Sheikh Hassan Isa Says He Was Mistreated & Threatened: “You are in a Notorious Place”
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror: Al-Wefaq said in a statement that the defence panel met with detained opposition figure Sheikh Hassan Isa for only 3 minutes and found out from him that he was mistreated and threatened by the investigation officer.
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Sawsan Al-Shaer: King Hamad Restored My Program after Being Cancelled by the Information Minister
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror: Sawsan Al-Shaer, stated that the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, ordered to bring back her program after it was cancelled by the Minister of Information Affairs.
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Bahrain’s MoI Continues to Hunt Down Tweeters Opposing War on Yemen: “Haji Ahmed” Arrested
2015-09-09
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Ministry of Interior said it arrested a Tweeter for “insulting” the Bahraini soldiers killed in Yemen, shortly after taking another into custody over the same charge.
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Bahrain Looks Forward to Signing Cooperation Agreement with OHCHR
2015-09-08
Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa stated that the Kingdom of Bahrain is looking forward to signing an agreement with the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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AFP: Bahrain Arrests Man for Online 'Insults' to Troops in Yemen
2015-09-08
AFP: Bahrain has arrested a man for posting "insults" on social media of its soldiers participating in the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, prosecutors said Monday.
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BHRS Received Information About Deterioration of Mohammad Jawad Pervez’s Health
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) expressed great concern after receiving information about the health deterioration of prisoner of conscience, Mohammad Hassan Pervez
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Bahraini King Says his Sons Nasser & Khalid Were in Yemen
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa stated that his sons Nasser and Khalid were among the Gulf forces that were targeted by a Yemeni military attack on a base in Yemen’s Ma’rib.
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Bahrain’s Education Minister Directs Schools to Praise Bahrain Defence Force
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Ministry of Education directed school principals to praise the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) during the morning line up.
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VIDEO: US Activist Crashes US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington to Denounce Saudi King’s Interference in Yemen & Bahrain
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: An American activist crashed the US-Saudi Forum at the Ritz Carlton in Washington, where the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz, is staying during his visit to the United States, and chanted slogans denouncing the war on Yemen.
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Judge from Ruling Family Sentences 6 Accused to 10 Years in Prison for Burning 2 Vehicles belonging to MP Al-Asfoor
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's First High Criminal Court, presided over by judge Mohammad bin Ali Al Khalifa and membership of judges Dia' Huraidi and Issam-Eldeen Mohammad Khalil and Naji Abdullah as secretariat, sentenced 6 accused to 10 years in prison
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Hussein Pervez: My Father’s Health Deteriorated..We know Nothing About Him Since He was Transferred to Hospital
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: Human rights defender Hussein Jawad Pervez said that the health of his 68-year-old father has deteriorated and he hasn’t received information about him since the morning he was transferred to the hospital.
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Bahraini Authorities Arrest Tweeter for “Insulting” the 5 Bahraini Soldiers Killed in Yemen
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: The Bahraini Ministry of Interior arrested a Tweeter who it claims “insulted Bahrain’s martyrs on social media,”
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Bahraini Appeals Court to Issue Verdict on “Freezing Al-Wefaq Activity” on Sept. 20
2015-09-07
Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain’s second circuit supreme civil court of appeals will issue verdict on freezing the activities of the country’s main opposition group, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, for 3 months on September 20, 2015.