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A former England caretaker manager was at the centre of extraordinary events on the He would also "seek to secure nal day of preliminary new dates as he remains very committed to undertaking this qualifying in Asia for the 2014 important visit," Celaya added. World Cup. Peter Taylor's Bahrain, needing a nine-goal turnaround to progress to the Read More next stage, beat Indonesia Reprinted Here: 10-0 in a xture that may yet attract closer investigation Bahrain delays U.N. investigator, from Fifa, but were denied a limits rights group visits - Yahoo!7 place in the next round by Bahrain Postpones UN's Torture
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Qatar's 86th-minute equaliser against Iran. Indonesia had their goalkeeper sent off after two minutes. The replacement let in a potentially pivotal ninth goal eight minutes from the end. Included in the nal tally were two penalties. The referee for the game, Andre El Haddad of Lebanon, has been involved in controversy before. Last year, he took charge of a qualier between China and Singapore that saw him make several hotly contested decisions. China won 2-1. Read More minute goal gave Qatar a 2-2 draw to clinch second place in the group at Bahrain's expense, but FIFA is still looking into the game. "Given the unusual outcome in relation to the resultsexpectation and head-to-head history, and in the interests of maintaining unequivocal confidence in our game, FIFA Security will conduct a routine examination of this game and its result," FIFA said in a statement. Read More
1997 started her own business, organising events and carrying out public relations functions for various clients. Things went well until 2009, when, Melrose said, some clients failed to pay for services she had provided. Around the same time, a business venture that she had invested in failed. She was left with substantial debt. Melrose said that only when airport authorities didn't allow her to leave Bahrain for a business trip did she discover that the creditors and international banks had filed travel bans against her. Read More was detained for over five months for participating in the democracy movement in Bahrain. Detained for longer than any other woman protestor, she was tortured and forced to sign a confession. Bahrain Military Courts unfairly sentenced her to three years in prison using this tortured confession. Read More
activist, who now enters day 19 of his hunger strike against the regime of Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, continues to make Luther King Jr proud. Alkhawaja is serving a life sentence for having refused to bend his back. The painful act of protest is not voluntary, some say. His jaws have been broken during custody: he cant chew. IV tubes, used to deliver uid into a patients body, have stopped working: his veins have shrunk due to weakness, according to his doctor. Read More
Jaleela Al-Salman is a teacher and vice president of the Bahrain Teachers Association. She, along with her cellmate Roula Al-Safar,
Last week we talked about the octogenarian that they had shot dead, this week we talk about another elderly man killed by Bahraini dictatorship forces. Watch here
race to a night race, which poses a problem for the organizers who would prefer to see it remain a daytime race. The fee for hosting the Formula 1 race is what is holding up the deal for a race in France, likely to be held in Paris. The plan is currently to start alternating races in Belgium and France annually starting in 2013. Currently, organizers of the Belgium race pay almost $30 million annually to the series. Organizers for both the Belgium race and the potential race in France have indicated that they would not be willing to pay more than approximately $20 million. Read More with the Prophet on Twitter, sentence thieves to amputation, announce that rape, sodomy, adultery, homosexuality, drug trafcking and apostasy are to carry the death penalty, and nobody except the Ofce of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights seems to care. The UN Security Council, the G20 (of which Saudi Arabia is a member), the International Monetary Fund, whose director recently visited Riyadh and expressed her appreciation of the kingdoms important role in supporting the global economy: none of them care. Read More
Bernie Ecclestone says F1 will bank 25million fee even if Bahrain Grand Prix is cancelled - 01/03/12
They [the Bahrainis] will pay if there is no race, the sports 81-year-old chief executive told The Telegraph. The money is in the bank already. So were not going because were going to get paid. That has nothing to do with it.
The fate of the Bahrain Grand Prix, which was postponed and then cancelled altogether last year in the wake of violent civil unrest which led to at least 35 deaths, has become a major talking point with the issue having been raised on numerous occasions in Westminster. One group of peers has called for a boycott of the country, whose authorities were found guilty of numerous human rights abuses last year. Another All-Party group of MPs is keen for the race to go ahead, believing it can be a catalyst for change.
died from asphyxia on Wednesday several days after Saudi-backed forces red a tear gas canister at his home in Sihla district, southwest of the capital. Read More