24th July 2013

BAHRAIN MEDIA ROUNDUP

Bahrain police recapture two escaped detainees
Bahrain police said on Wednesday they recaptured two men suspected of attacks on security forces, two months after they escaped from custody along with other detainees. The pair, who were arrested late Tuesday, were accused over "a number of terror acts," including setting a car ablaze near the kingdom's Formula One circuit, and detonating a car bomb near Manama's Financial Harbour, police said in a statement. They were also suspected of being behind a bombing that killed a policeman, and an attack on a police station outside Manama, the statement added. Read More

Video: Use of tear gas in street battles in west Bahrain

Opposition activists reported heavy clashes in Karzakkan in west Bahrain on the evening of Monday,

July 22. Recent days saw a new increase in reports of police operations in predominantly Shiite neighbourhoods following a recent bombing at a Sunni mosque in Riffa. Credit: YouTube/Karzakkan Media. Read More felt by the citizens under the rule of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. The demonstrations in Bahrain have not stopped in two and a half years, when the Arab Spring reached that small island in February 2011. The slogans raised in the demonstrations were highly creative and summarized the peoples suffering, especially after the harsh crackdown that killed dozens, wounded hundreds, tortured many, detained thousands and caused many to be dismissed from work. Read More

Bahraini Reprisals Continue Against Human Rights Defender Naji Fateel

Naji Fateel, board member of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) and a prominent activist, is due to appear before the Fourth Criminal Court again tomorrow, July 25. His trial on terrorismrelated charges resumes tomorrow.

Police arrested Fateel on Thursday, May 2, 2013, in a dawn raid of his house in the village of Bani Jamra. He was sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly engaging in illegal gatherings. Within days of his arrest, the BYSHR reported that he had been tortured in custody, including that he was electrocuted in his genitals, suspended from the ceiling and threatened with rape. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights also reported that Fateel had twice been taken to the Interior Ministry Hospital for treatment. Read More

Bahrains Revolutionaries Show Creativity in Banners, Slogans

In the 1970s, one of the rst phrases that Bahrainis learned in rst grade was: Hamad has a pen. And that phrase remains stuck in the memory of many. But that phrase has recently been changed to: Hamad has pain. It was written on a sign held by a protesterat a mass rally in a major neighborhood in the north, west of the Bahraini capital Manama. The modied phrase showcases the pain

Bahrain launches global drive to counter false news

Media attachs are to be posted to Bahrain embassies around the world to counter false news about the reality of life on the ground since the unrest, said a senior government ofcial. The Bahrain News Agency (BNA) will also open ofces

in several countries, Minister of State for Information Affairs Sameera Rajab was quoted as saying in the Gulf Daily News, our sister publication. One ofcial has already been appointed to Washington and six others will be stationed in key capital cities by the end of the year. Read More