Home / Bahrain / Industry / Politics / Qatar Bahrain News Agency quoted a senior official as saying that Qatar had "targeted specific families and singled out a particular category of people" with no consideration to Bahraini laws. Bahrain has accused wealthier neighbour Qatar of harming its national security by “luring” some nationals to take Qatari citizenship, state news agency BNA said, a charge that could widen a rift among Gulf Arab countries. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Read more [...]

Home / Bahrain / Industry / Politics Bahrain has forbidden Sheikh Kamel al-Hashemi, Adel al-Hamad and Mohammed al-Mansi to preach in and around the capital Manama. Bahrain has banned three Muslim clerics from preaching in mosques, accusing them of violating the “ethics and principles of religious discourse”, in what opposition activists said was part of a crackdown on dissent. State news agency BNA said the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs and Interior Ministry of the Sunni Read more [...]

Protesters in the tiny Persian Gulf country of Bahrain have staged an anti-regime rally in protests against the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty’s continued suppression of dissent and its violation of human rights. On Saturday, demonstrators in the island of Sitra, situated 12 kilometers (7 miles) southeast of the capital, Manama, expressed their outrage over the recent measures adopted by the Bahraini regime to grant citizenship to foreign nationals. They said by such tactics, Manama is trying to tighten Read more [...]

AN ANTI-CORRUPTION watchdog is calling on the government to provide it with a list of all of Bahrain's eligible voters so that it can better monitor the upcoming national elections. At present, voters' lists are distributed only to candidates running in the polls after they file nominations at one of the five registration centres located in each governorate. But according to the Bahrain Transparency Society (BTS), these lists should also be given to civil societies that operate in a monitoring capacity, Read more [...]

MANAMA: Efforts are underway to fly critically injured Palestinians to Bahrain as Israeli warplanes continue to pound Gaza. They are being spearheaded by the Bahrain Medical Society (BMS), which has started discussing logistical feasibility with the authorities concerned in Palestine and Egypt. However, its president Dr Mohammed Al Rafea said it could take time to complete the paperwork, which includes securing passports for the wounded who have lost all their belongings in the month-long Israeli Read more [...]

MANAMA: Twenty Bahraini and expatriate medics have been shortlisted for a volunteer mission to the Gaza Strip. They will be divided into teams and the first delegation will fly out as soon as they receive consent from authorities concerned in Egypt and Palestine, said Bahrain Medical Society (BMS) president Dr Mohammed Al Rafea. "We are ready to leave anytime as we have the necessary approvals from the Bahraini authorities, including licences from the Social Development Ministry," Dr Al Rafea, Read more [...]