30 oct 2017
BAHRAIN MEDIA ROUNDUP
Bahrain calls for
freezing Qatar out of
GCC
Bahrain will not attend
Decembers summit of
the Gulf Cooperation
Council if Qatar does
not change its policies
and Qatar should have its
membership in the six-
nation group suspended,
Bahrains foreign minister
said.
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates
and Egypt cut diplomatic,
transport and trade
ties with Qatar in June,
accusing it of financing
terrorism. Doha denies
the charges and says the
Bahrain Foreign
Minister Calls for
Freezing Qatar Out
of Gulf Cooperation
Council
Bahrain's foreign minister
on Monday suggested
suspending Qatar's Gulf
Cooperation Council
membership until it
accepts the demands of
its Arab adversaries in
the region's worst crisis in
years.
"The correct step to
preserve the GCC would
be to freeze Qatar's
membership until it sees
reason and accepts the
demands of our countries.
If not, we will be fine
boycott is an attempt to Detainees will now be
impinge on its sovereignty allowed privacy during
and rein in its support for phone calls to their families
reform. and will no longer be
separated from visitors by
If the situation remains glass panes, BIRD said.
as it is we wont attend Bahrain: Women
this summit, Khalid bin Hajar Mansoor Hassan, one
detainees demanding
Ahmed Al Khalifa said on better prison conditions of the five detainees, had
Twitter, referring to the been forced to suspend her
end hunger strike
GCC meeting in Kuwait. hunger strike at the weekend
A group of detainees at a after being hospitalised for
The right step to preserve low blood sugar levels.
Bahraini womens detention
the GCC is to freeze
centre ended a six-day
Qatars membership in the Along with Hassan,
hunger strike on Sunday after
council, he said. detainees Najah al-Sheikh,
negotiating better prison
Amira al-Qashami, Medina
Founded as a bulwark conditions with authorities,
Ali and Zainab Marhoon
against neighbours Iraq a rights group said.
last week launched the
and Iran, the Western-
The five women ended strike in protest against the
backed GCC is a loose
their strike at the Isa Town mistreatment of detainees.
association of the six Gulf
womens prison after
Arab countries. Authorities have cracked
wardens agreed to their
down on political dissent
demands, according to the
since a wave of protests
Bahrain Institute for Human
erupted in 2011 demanding
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an elected government.
(BIRD), which says they are
being held in connection Read more
with political activity.
with it leaving the GCC,"
Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed
al-Khalifa said on Twitter.
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates and
Egypt on June 5 severed
ties with Qatar over
accusations of supporting
extremism and being too
close to Shiite rival Iran,
charges Doha has denied.
Founded in 1981, the GCC
is a political and economic
union that includes Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain, the
United Arab Emirates and
Qatar, as well as Oman
and Kuwait.
Experts have warned that
the nearly five-month-
long diplomatic crisis
could cause the six-nation
bloc's demise.
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