Bahrain's National Space Science Agency recently held its inaugural meeting to draft regulatory frameworks and determine next steps in its bid to advance the discipline in the kingdom. The agency's new board, led by Mohammed al-Amer, chairman of the Central Informatics and Telecommunications Organisation, met April 9th to discuss the possible ratification of international space-related agreements such as the Outer Space Treaty, the Rescue Agreement, the Space Liability Convention, the Registration Read more [...]

Geneva: United Nation's (UN) religious freedom monitor urged today that Sunni-ruled Bahrain to halt discrimination against its Shiite majority and its spiritual leader, who was expelled from the Gulf kingdom this week. The case of Sheikh Hussein al-Najati was a stark illustration of the broader mistreatment of Shiites in Bahrain, UN expert Heiner Bielefeldt said in a statement. He said that he had contacted Bahrain's government to press his "grave concerns" over what Read more [...]

An Iranian Foreign Ministry official has criticized Bahrain’s decision to expel the representative of Iraq-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, calling it a wrong and provocative act. “The problem with some parties inside the Bahraini government is that they are not committed to effective political dialogue,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Thursday. He added that continuation of police states in Bahrain will only complicate the Read more [...]