Last weekend, HRW accused the regime of creating a “climate of fear”, particularly in Shia neighbourhoods and villages where night-time raids appear designed mainly to instil terror among the mostly poor residents. Professionals, including doctors, lawyers, and human rights...

The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today condemned the use of medical facilities in Bahrain to crack down on protestors, which is making it impossible for those wounded during clashes to seek treatment. A report released today by MSF...

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Leading Islamic scholar Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has said all Muslims, including Sunnis and Shias, are obliged to support the Bahraini nation with any possible means. “It is incumbent on all Muslims, including Shias and Sunnis, to defend the Bahraini people with any means...

The BBC has twisted comments by Bahraini Shiite leader Sheikh Ali Salman claiming he said Iran is meddling in the Persian Gulf country’s internal affairs. The falsified report by BBC Persian TV channel earlier this week came as the leader of Bahraini protestors has been under intense...

Sunni. Shia. Every time the protests in Bahrain are mentioned, they are made into a battle between these two branches of Islam, as if this was a war of religions. It’s not about religion, it’s about power and the desire for political change. Of course, in terms of power, it matters...

Yemeni security forces opened fire in a crowd of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters Friday outside Sanaa University in the capital, killing scores and wounding many more. Doctors at the main hospital said that at least 50 had been killed and more than 100 injured during the...

Protest in solidarity with the oppressed people of Bahrain on Saturday 19th March at 2.30pm outside the Bahraini Embassy in London. Having perpetuated a nightmarish rule over Bahrain for decades under the aegis of unequivocal regional and US support, the Khalifa monarchy together with its...

The unarmed, middle-aged man in the video seems to pose no threat to the Bahraini security forces. He gesticulates at a group of soldiers or policemen, dressed in blue jumpsuits and white helmets, just a few feet away. One of them gestures as if to wave away a nearby protester filming the...

At least 200 people were shot and wounded on Tuesday in a Shiite village south of the Bahraini capital, a medic said, as the king imposed a state of emergency after bringing in Saudi and Emirati troops to help quell anti-regime protests. “More than 200 people we received today had been...

At least six people are reported dead and hundreds injured after security forces in Bahrain drove out pro-democracy protesters from the Pearl Roundabout in the capital, Manama. A 12-hour curfew came into force at 4pm in areas of the city including the Pearl Roundabout, the Bahrain Financial...

Testimony by Dr. Aalllaa: We started the day this morning hearing about the attacks. The disaster call was called for, and when we went down we realised that the whole hospital was surrounded by tanks. We had three helicopters hovering over us. They stopped our ambulances from going to help...

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has censured foreign military invasion of Bahrain in an attempt to counter people of the Persian Gulf state, holding the US accountable for the move. “This military invasion was a foul and doomed experience. Regional nations hold the US government...

After the declaration of emergency rule in Bahrain, and the delegation of internal repression to the hands of regional armies and mercenary forces, and the targeting of Shia citizens in particular. With view to the precedents to these developments, namely, the policy of spreading terror and...

Saudi Arabian troops have crossed into Bahrain after the tiny Gulf kingdom’s ruling family asked for help from neighbouring Sunni Arab states to quell a two-month uprising which threatens their 200-year-old dynasty. The Saudi capital, Riyadh, said that it had responded to a...

Hundreds have been killed in Libya since protests broke out across the North African nation six days ago, according to rights watchdogs and eyewitnesses across the country. Residents told Al Jazeera that at least 200 people had died in the eastern city of Benghazi alone, while the New...

At first people were not asking for a change of regime. They were asking for political reform and political participation. They want greater respect for their human rights and the liberation of political prisoners. They demand an end to discrimination and torture. They are asking for the right...

IHRC urges all campaigners to write letters to the foreign secretaries in their home countries urging them to pressure the Bahraini government to end the use of violence, stop the killing of peaceful protesters, to respect the human rights of the protestors and to allow them to demand their...

We, the Bahraini youth, from all the different sects and ideologies, call the people to unify their position in demanding their rights and the rights of their children. We call on Bahrainis to take to the streets on Monday 14 February in a peaceful orderly way. The time of waiting has ended,...