31 oct 2017
BAHRAIN MEDIA ROUNDUP
Bahrain imposes visas
on Qatar visitors
Bahrain has decided to
impose visas on travellers
from Qatar, which is
embroiled in a diplomatic
crisis with its Arab
neighbours, Bahraini state
media reported Tuesday.
Under Gulf Cooperation
Council agreements,
citizens of countries in the
six-state bloc, including
both Bahrain and Qatar, can
visit other GCC countries
without visas.
But Bahrain's King Sheikh
Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa
on Tuesday ordered the new
Bahrain imposes
entry visas on Qatar
nationals, residents
Bahrain said on Tuesday it
would impose entry visas
on Qatar nationals and
residents in what it called a
security measure.
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 that and says the
boycott is an attempt to rein
in its support for reform.
The new measures aim
at preventing harming the
security and stability of
the kingdom of Bahrain
rules and urged authorities
to strengthen security
measures in the tiny Gulf
kingdom, the official BNA
news agency said.
Bahrain's Foreign Minister
on Monday said Qatar's
GCC membership should
be suspended until it
accepts the demands of its
neighbours.
King Hamad also accused
Qatar the same day of
undermining the security of
other GCC member states.
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particularly in light of the
latest repercussions of the
crisis with Qatar, said a
statement from the official
Bahraini news agency BNA.
Citizens from the six-nation
Gulf Cooperation Council
countries are supposed
to be able to travel within
the GCC carrying only an
identity card. Bahrains visa
requirements will apply
from Nov. 10.
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25 km (15 mile) causeway,
is strategically important to
the West as it hosts the U.S.
Fifth Fleet. It has a Shiite
Muslim majority population
but is ruled by a Sunni royal
Bahrain court sentences family.
10 men on terrorism
charges The government, citing
years of deadly bombing and
A Bahraini court shooting attacks against its
sentenced 10 men to life security forces, says it faces
imprisonment and revoked a militant threat backed by
arch-foe Iran.
their citizenship on charges
of forming a terrorist cell
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and plotting attacks, the
Bahraini Public Prosecution
said on Tuesday.
The men were accused of
receiving training in military
camps in Iran and Iraq in
the use of arms and bombs
to carry out terrorist attacks
in Bahrain, the prosecution
said in a statement.
Bahrain, a small island state
linked to Saudi Arabia by a