The Vice President met with His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince and First Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain, this afternoon in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The Vice President emphasized U.S. support for...
Bahrain’s opposition has rejoined national reconciliation talks following a two-week boycott over the slow pace of dialogue and a reported crackdown by security forces.
Bahrain’s main opposition party al-Wefaq, in collaboration with other...
How to interpret the recent unrest on the streets of Istanbul and about 65 other Turkish cities? Specifically, is it comparable to the Arab uprisings over the last 2½ years in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain? On one level, they...
Gulf Arab countries will consider taking action against Hezbollah if the Shi’ite Muslim Lebanese movement continues its involvement in Syria’s civil war or interferes in Gulf Arab affairs, Bahrain’s deputy foreign minister said on...
Remember how Council of Foreign Relations' Ed Husain had a series of deranged tweets about Bahrain last year? And the apologia he wrote for the NYT about the dictatorship there?He's at it again, this time about the protests on Istanbul. First,...
Children as young as 15 are tried as adults in Bahrain, in violation of the country's obligations to treat all child suspects in accordance with the rules and principles of juvenile justice.
May 31, 2013
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Bahrain's poor and overcrowded Shiite majority learned what a raw deal they were getting in 2006, when they saw satellite images of lavish palaces and empty land owned by the Sunni monarchy. The images, which circulated in PDF form after the...
Husain Abdulla
More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated. Activists and opposition groups continue to demand the basic human rights and political...
Husain Abdulla
More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated. Activists and opposition groups continue to demand the basic human rights and political...
Barack Obama hasn’t had a lot of good news of late on the foreign policy front. His non-plan for Syria is under fire from all sides. His non-strategy for the Arab Spring has drawn near daily criticism on Benghazi and Cairo to Iran and Bahrain....
Five men in Bahrain have been sentenced to a year imprisonment for allegedly insulting the King of Bahrain in messages posted on Twitter.
May 16, 2013
International
The Bahraini authorities must immediately...
Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam surfaced in London, after escaping from Bahrain, where he has been in hiding for two years. In absentia, Abdulemam, 35 years, was slapped a 15-year prison sentence for belonging to a terror organisation and for seeking...
Over the past two years of Arab unrest, only in Bahrain did a neighboring country (Saudi Arabia) invade militarily to put down a popular uprising – and did so without U.S. outrage because Bahrain is home to the Fifth Fleet. But the political...
Paul R. Pillar
The island kingdom of Bahrain has stuck out as a kind of sore thumb in the Persian Gulf ever since the Arab Spring got under way. It is the only one of the six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council that has seen major...
In an article
for FP this week, Freedom House Vice President Arch Puddington laid
out the 10 worst countries in the world to be a journalist. The list
contained well-known dictatorships such as North Korea, Syria, and Cuba -- and
also the tiny...
Bahrain is clearly "not serious" about implementing human rights reforms, Amnesty International said after the Gulf kingdom cancelled a planned visit by the United Nations' torture expert.
April 24, 2013
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Sebastian Vettel again dominated the Formula One field to take the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend, making it back-to-back victories in Bahrain.Tensions were high heading into the fourth Grand Prix of the year, with political angst and problems...
Protesters in Bahrain plan to step up demands for reform ahead of this weekend’s Formula One Grand Prix, setting the scene for a showdown with authorities determined to stage an incident-free race.
The main opposition al-Wefaq political bloc...
With Bahrain about to host the 2013 Formula One Grand Prix, the spotlight has returned to the Gulf country’s human rights record. Here're some of the main issues you should know.
April 17, 2013
International ...
Anti-government protesters in Bahrain are stepping up their demonstrations as Formula One (F1) drivers and their teams head to Bahrain for Sunday’s Grand Prix auto race. A group of youth activists claimed responsibility for a car bomb in Manama...
