“Muhafda is yet again paying for his commitment to the circulation of information about human rights violations in Bahrain,” Secretary-General of the France-based Reporters Without Borders Christophe Deloire said in a statement on Friday. “The authorities must stop their repeated violations of freedom of information and allow news providers to operate freely,” Deloire added.On Monday, Bahrain regime forces arrested over 25 demonstrators in and around the capital city, Manama, who had taken Read more [...]

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Ibrahim Al Madhoun, the media coordinator of the Bahraini opposition abroad, said Bahrain's repressive regime relies on foreign powers, especially Britain, the Al Saud regime and Oman to crush peaceful pro-democracy protests in the Arab country, Al-ansar.net reported.He also stressed that slogans chanted in demonstrations in Bahrain indicate the widespread nature of the protests, emphasizing that the country needs major reforms not minor ones. The activist said that he did not even know which adjective Read more [...]

Korour Fenjanchi made the remarks in an interview with the Turkish Hurriyat website.Mawali disappeared in January 2012. The Bahraini police returned his corpse to his family after 8 days, claiming that he had been drowned in the sea.Well informed of the al-Khalifa regime's black record in torturing and killing protestors, Mawali's family pursued the case with the International Rehabilitation Council of Torture Victims and the Council called the Turkish human rights activists for help.In response, Read more [...]

(MENAFN - Arab News) Menatelecom, an investment subsidiary of Kuwait Finance House (Bahrain) and the provider of the most powerful, and shortly, the fastest Internet service in Bahrain, has announced signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei to deploy its latest 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network in Bahrain. The MoU signing ceremony was attended by Abdul Razak Jawahery, chairman of Menatelecom, Rashid Alkhan, Menatelecom board member and Ahmed Saeed, KFH-Bahrain executive Read more [...]

Manama, Dec. 29. (BNA) – Bids worth millions of dinars have been submitted by three top investment companies to give one of Bahrain's most popular sea fronts a major facelift. The Al Fateh Corniche was put up for tendering by the Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs Ministry after a shortage of funds delayed the BD1.2 million project, which was due to have begun in July 2010. Three private Read more [...]

Bahrainis have staged mass anti-regime demonstrations across the Persian Gulf country despite the ongoing violent crackdown on protests.

Witnesses say a number of protesters were injured after regime forces opened fire to disperse the crowd on Friday.

On Thursday, Bahraini women staged an anti-regime protest in the village of Mahaza in solidarity with jailed female activists.