A former Navy contract linguist accused of taking classified documents without permission looks set to plead guilty, but to charges vastly reduced in number and seriousness from the ones he was previously facing. James Hitselberger was arrested in 2012 after being charged with removing classified documents from a workspace at a Navy base in Bahrain. Authorities also said the Arabic linguist unlawfully sent classified information to archivists at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Hitselberger Read more [...]

GENEVA: The UN's religious freedom monitor on Thursday urged 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 he said appeared to be "religiously motivated Read more [...]

Home / Bahrain / Industry / Politics This latest move likely adds to tensions in the tiny Gulf state, where there are clashes with police in many Shi'ite areas almost every day. Bahrain expelled a prominent Shi’ite religious figure on Wednesday, accusing him of acting as a representative of influential Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani without permission. A statement by the interior ministry said it had received information from top Iraqi government officials Read more [...]