Home / Bahrain / Politics Bahrain has seen almost daily protests by members of the Shi'ite majority since February 2011. A Bahraini court sentenced 50 people on Sunday to between five and 15 years in jail for setting up a group that organises anti-government protests, and that authorities say is working to topple the government by force, activists said. Bahrain has seen almost daily protests by members of the Shi’ite majority since February 2011, when it crushed a Shi’ite-led Read more [...]

'Terrifying' teen behaviour online Manama, 3 hours, 56 minutes ago Experts have registered a "terrifying" spike in cyber bullying in Bahrain that is manifesting in schools across the country, a report said. They say 43 per cent of teenagers, aged between 14 and 18, are putting their lives at risk by going out with strangers they meet online, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication. The shocking figures were revealed by the Read more [...]

DUBAI: A Bahraini court handed jail terms of up to 15 years on Sunday to 50 protesters, including a prominent Iraqi cleric, convicted of forming a clandestine opposition group, a judicial source said. Sixteen defendants were handed 15-year terms, while four were jailed for 10 years and the other 30 for five, the source said. The defendants, including Iraqi cleric Hadi al-Mudaressi who was tried in absentia, were charged with forming the “February 14 Revolution Youth Coalition”, which Bahraini Read more [...]