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Bahrain Media Roundup: Bahrain Police Battle To Control Streets in Flashpoint Town - 23/03/12
Bahrain Media Roundup: Bahrain Police Battle To Control Streets in Flashpoint Town - 23/03/12
where youths threw petrol bombs and stones at security forces who responded with tear gas canisters, Reuters witnesses said. Sitra has long been a ashpoint area where Shi'ite Muslim youths vent anger against a government they feel marginalizes them politically and economically. Read More Reprinted here:
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Anti-regime activists said that Ahmad Abdul Nabi was killed in the western village of Shakrakan during a clash with government forces. Police reportedly used a riot hose and tear gas to bring crowds under control, injuring dozens more. Demonstrators are protesting against the brutality of the security forces and call for the ouster of the ruling al-Khalifa regime. Read More
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landed in his familys house in the village of Shahrakan, said a statement by Al Wefaq, citing family members.
One group of young people in Bahrain has tried to boost the success rate of those going it alone in the private sector by starting a business angels fund.
The opposition group said he died due to the poisoning and asphyxiating gases used by security forces against youths, who stage frequent protests against the regime. It provided a picture showing a broken window through which the canister is claimed to have entered the house. Read More
So what does the fund do and Ahmed Abdul Nabi, 31, died how can they convince after a tear gas grenade investors to put money into Bahrain once again?Read More
However the union's Two killed by tear gas chairman, Mehdi Abu Deeb, and his deputy, Jalila alfired by Bahrain's Salman, remain on trial, said security forces Mohsen al-Alawi, a lawyer for two of the acquitted teachers. Two people have died as a result of tear gas used by Bahrain's security forces The Sunni Muslim-led Gulf against anti-regime activists. kingdom, which hosts the Opposition to the Sunni alU.S. Fifth Fleet, is keen to Khalifa regime has been show progress on reforms it ongoing since February 2011, pledged after international in spite of the brutal criticism of its crackdown on crackdown by Bahrani forces. demonstrations led by members of its Shi'ite Naharnet reported Bahrain's majority. Shiite opposition group said Read More Ahmed Abdul Nabi, 31, died from "poisoning and tear gas by Bahraini security forces. Police moved in with water cannon and armoured vehicles to break up hundreds of protesters as they approached a Bahraini Dissident checkpoint near 'Pearl Blogger Ali Abdulemam Roundabout', hub of proMissing For One Year democracy protests last year 25/03/12 led by majority Shi'ite Muslims complaining of One year ago this month, Ali marginalisation. Abdulemam, a champion of free speech in Bahrain, Read More disappeared. In an interview with an Egyptian newspaper next month's Forumla One Grand Prix. King Hamad bin Isa alKhalifa recently hosted Dr. Jimmy Gurul, a law professor at Notre Dame University and former U.S. assistant attorney general, to "assess the country's pretrial detention policies and procedures". Read More
asphyxiating gases" as a result of a tear gas grenade landing in his family home. Nabi's death followed that of 59-year-old housewife Abda Ali Abdul Hussein, who also died following the gassing of her home. Reuters reported her son Ali said "I consider her a victim of the clashes." Describing his mother's death he said "She collapsed in the bathroom. We called a military hospital nearby for an ambulance but they didn't have any free. By the time one came from the main public hospital she had died." Read More shortly before he vanished, he recalled how a police ofcer had told him, Ive been wanting to drink your blood since the 1990s. His offense was setting up Bahrain Online, a web forum where, using pseudonyms, ordinary people could post views about the harsh policies of the royal government. Read More
participants many of whom turned violent. All these rallies were organised by the leading opposition group, Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, and were held at the same time from 3pm to 5pm. Many of the participants violated the law and engaged in acts of vandalism. Read More
They received the award during the federation's executive council meeting in Orlando, Fla. "Worker issues such as high unemployment, lack of opportunity, declining living standards, and arrogant abuse of economic and political power by the corrupt few" spurred the prodemocracy revolts which started in Tunisia and have swept through the Middle East and North Africa," the citation said. Read More
Bahrain Nursing Society, and her health care colleagues, who are facing trial in Bahrain. The trial of the 20 health care professionals arrested after they treated patients injured in the spring protests last year is due to continue on 28 March. Read More
Bahrain security forces tortured Nada. They initially held her in solitary connement for twenty-two days and subjected her to unrelenting physical and verbal abuse including electrocution. Later, she was made to sign a false confession admitting to hatred for the regime, criminally supporting the protesters, and violating her Hippocratic Oath. Read More
Riot police re teargas during clashes with anti-government protesters in the village of Jidhafds
A woman tries to stop riot policemen from arresting an anti-government protester during clashes in Bahrain Female community police ofcers warn antigovernment protesters to evacuate a roundabout on a main highway of Budaiya
A woman runs to look for a cover from tear gas red by riot police during clashes in Bahrain Anti-government protesters run towards a roundabout on the main highway of Budaiya
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Two Bahrainis Die from Regime Toxic Gas - 24/03/12 Nabil Rajab to Al-Manar Website: Bahrain Battle only against King - 25/03/12
Nabil Rajab is a Bahraini rights activist, who currently heads Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Gulf Center for Human Rights, and is a legal counsel in the Human Rights Watch. Besides his work in the human rights eld, Rajab used to work in contracting, until the Bahraini authorities targeted his sourse of income, so he left it, devoting himself to the rights eld. TwoBahrainis have died from inhaling toxic tear gas red by Bahraini regime forces, one day after thousands of people marched in 10 ralliesacross the country. Activists said on Saturday that 31year-old Ahmad Abdul Nabi was killed during a protest rally in the western village of Shahrakan, prominent opposition group said. Meanwhile, a woman named Abda Ali Abdul Hussein,59, died on Friday after inhaling gases in the village of Jid Hafs, near the Bahraini capital Manama, al-Wefaq said, again citing family members. Read More
Human Rights, and is a legal counsel in the Human Rights Watch. Read More
Bahraini regime forces attacked hundreds of demonstrators in several villages using tear gas 25/03/12
Bahraini regime forces have once again used tear gas to disperse antigovernment demonstrators in the towns of Sitra and Aali. Read More