Bahrain is beefing up security measures around the country’s mosques over threats made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the interior ministry said. The measures were taken after a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in neighbouring Kuwait last week, in which an ISIL member[…]
The trial of Bahrain’s top opposition leader on charges of promoting a violent overthrow of the island nation’s political system is set to resume, in a case that has riled his supporters and heightened unrest in the Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab kingdom. Wednesday’s trial of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of al-Wefaq[…]
A Bahrain court has sentenced an opposition figure to three years in prison for insulting the king by tearing up a photograph of him, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Zainab al-Khawaja, the daughter of prominent rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is serving a life term, was also fined $8,000, said[…]
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