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  • Diyaa Ayyad: Merciless Bahraini Regime
    2019-07-30

    This is not surprising as the Bahraini authorities are accustomed to playing the “blood game” that they use every time they want to confront their opponents.

  • A Letter to Judges I Don’t Know: Release My Mother Fatima Al-Nasif
    2019-07-16

    I want to send a humane appeal to the judiciary in Riyadh. My name is Shahed and I am 15 years old. I haven’t heard the voice of my mother, Fatima Al-Nasif, for over 10 days. I heard from her prison inmates that she was taken to trial in Riyadh last week. We were waiting for her return to the General Investigations Directorate prison in Dammam. Yesterday (Monday) was our weekly phone call date. We waited for a call from her to tell us any information about her trial, but we didn’t receive any heartwarming news.

  • Bahrainis Reject their Gov't Stance, Stand against "Disgraceful" Deal of Century
    2019-06-27

    The Trump administration organized an economic workshop in Bahrain on June 25 and 26, purportedly aimed at resolving the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Under the title "Peace to Prosperity", the White house seeks to undermine Palestine, its people, and rights.

  • Democracy Key to Securing the Future of Bahrain's Young
    2019-05-06

    In April, the King of Bahrain announced a new Royal Directive aimed at embracing Bahraini youth who he describes as "the nations source of strength". Whilst details of what this directive will actually concretely mean are yet to be announced - or indeed whether this is anything more than empty rhetoric - one thing should be certain; the youth of Bahrain are concerned with political reform and until this happens the future of the country will not reflect their aspirations.

  • Diyaa Ayyad: Life Term against Bahrain’s Mandela: ‘Incriminating Evidence’ Constitute Evidence for his Acquittal
    2019-02-13

    Through the incriminating evidence the ruling family presented via the judiciary, it was, in fact, providing evidence for Sheikh Ali Salman’s acquittal, according to observers.

  • Emile Nakhle: Jassim Murad's Passing Left Void in Modern History of Bahrain
    2019-01-14

    Jassim Murad carried the torch of modern Bahrain. He believed that Bahrainis were entitled to freedoms of speech, assembly, and thought and that all citizens were equal under the law.

  • Alessia Caizzone: Bahrain, Be Careful What You Call Democracy
    2018-11-24

    The electoral history of the small kingdom of Bahrain, which is getting ready for fake elections on November 24th.

  • The Bu Keshmah Tales: With Your Vote, You fall in a Trap while Smiling
    2018-10-09

    A person enthusiast about the elections asked “Bu Keshmah” about his opinion regarding participation in the electoral process.

  • Baqer Darwish: Electronic Flies in Bahrain
    2018-07-08

    Sectarian instigation that the administration of Bahrain Television has worked on succeeded in preparing the conditions for programming hate speech and incitement in the official press and on social media sites locally.

  • Bahrain: My Name is Red
    2018-02-22

    When Turkish author Orhan Pamuk gave the floor to the color "Red" to be a narrator in one of his greatest novels (My Name is Red), he gave the most powerful and symbolic color the honors of being an insider, and telling the tale.

  • Anti-Shia Bias Driving Saudi Arabia Unrest, Adam Coogle
    2017-08-30

    “We were too scared to leave our homes, and most of the shops were shut down or burned,” a resident of Awamiya, in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern province, told me this month.

  • Eman Shams Eldeen: Human Rights Defenders Under Winds Blow
    2017-06-12

    There has been an increase in the number of assaults on human rights activists in the Arab world after the so-called Arab Spring, ranging from attacks initiated by the ruling authorities, beyond torture and threats, to accusing them of treason and conspiracy abroad; an accusation punishable by death in some countries.

  • Mohammad Sahwan: The Cultural Activist and Intellectual Martyr
    2017-03-22

    Bahrain has lost one of its sensible intellectual youths in one of the country's political prisons. Bahrain has lost the resilient martyr, Mohammad Mulla Hassan Sahwan, an exceptional figure in the Bahraini scene.

  • Middle East Eye: A Challenge to Bahrain's Rulers from an ex-MP, Let's Talk
    2017-03-18

    My challenge is clear to the authorities. The opposition wants dialogue and has consistently said this on a regular basis for the past six years.

  • Sarah Haidar: To the Youth of Bahrain; a Love Letter
    2017-02-15

    You taught us that living on the edge, in your love story, is not adventurous and naïve, it is rather brave and marvelous to see people stepping on their ego and swallowing their pride, to save a breed of humans and ethics, which has become very rare to see or view in this vicious and dark world.

  • Marc Owen Jones: MOI’s Killing of Three Bahrainis Leaves Lots of Unanswered Questions
    2017-02-12

    Three of a group of ten people, who were allegedly escaping to Iran, were killed yesterday in Bahrain. Redha Abdulla Isa Al Ghasra, 29, a fugitive sentenced to 79 years and life imprisonment, Mahmood Yousif Habib Hasan Yahya, 22, and Mustafa Yousif Yousif Abd Ali, 35, while others were injured and arrested.

  • Abdulghani Al-Khanjar: “Jaw” Novel Hit Me with Wave of Emotions, I Felt Everything
    2016-12-21

    It took me seven hours to read all the chapters of the novel “Jaw”. Indeed, I re-lived the agony of this story, from beginning to end.

  • Ali Abdulemam: Jihad, What Immense Suffering You Recount in “Jaw”!
    2016-12-17

    There is always a big difference between experiencing pain and writing or reading about it. There is something unique about reading about a similar struggle you went through for a period of time.

  • Zainab Al-Khawaja: “Jaw” Novel, A Story of Resilience
    2016-12-11

    This book comes to you from behind prison walls in Bahrain. It is not the story of someone who was once in prison, it is the voice of someone who still is.

  • S. Yousif Al-Muhafdah: Is Bahrain the New Breeding Ground for Political Extremism?
    2016-10-21

    How the government’s unprecedented crackdown on civil society and human rights might foster the radicalization of some of its citizens.


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  • Recent Releases in Bahrain: Something Has Changed
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  • Abu Sa'afa Field Revenues Reach One Billion, 33 Million BD, Its Revenues Expected to Increase by 40% this Year
  • Bahrain's Alba Says Europe Wary of ordering Aluminium for Next Year
  • Int’l HR Activists to Bahrain Mirror: Nabeel Rajab’s Sentence Warning to those who Speak against Gov’t, Trajectory of Bahrain under Ruling Family is for Instability not Stability
  • Activists to Bahrain Mirror on UPR: US Stance Surprising, UK's Stance like any Arab Country
  • “Takrooz” Reveals Himself: I’m a State Not a Person, I Don’t Leave a Word Unspoken
  • Rayhana Al-Mosawi Opens Up to Bahrain Mirror about Her Prison Woes: I Was Questioned by Emirati Officers & Stripped by Policewomen
  • Dr. Masoud Jahromi in Interview with Bahrain Mirror: I Waved Goodbye to the One who Deported Me
  • Bahrain Mirror Interviews Mahdi Abu Dheeb: Well-known Journalist, Activist & TV Director Filmed My Forced Confession
  • Bahrain Mirror’s All-Inclusive Interview with Ibrahim Sharif: While Tortured, I Thought of the Popular Front & Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi
  • Appeals Court Upholds 2-Year Jail Verdict against Mohammad Al-Zayani
  • Only 3-Year Prison Term Handed Down to Three Bahrainis who Joined ISIS
  • Bahraini Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison, Charged with Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Police Car
  • Bahrain Court Fines 5 Members of Prisoners' Families 1,000 BD Each for Violating Ban on Gatherings
  • Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ansari Receives 6-Month Jail Term over Religious Lecture
  • Cassation Court Upholds One-Year Jail Term against Sheikh Abdulmohsen Al-Jamri over Religious Lecture
  • Death Sentence against 3 Asians over Deliberate Murder
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