News: Bahrain

We have started to collect the most important news related to Bahrain in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Bahrain: news

UK's dilemma in balancing the Gulf

Thursday, September 20th 2012, 15:27
related countries: Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

Turmoil prompts UK review of Bahrain and Saudi ties
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Bahrain charges police officers

Monday, September 17th 2012, 21:22

A court in Bahrain charges seven police officers over the torture and mistreatment of people arrested after last year's anti-government protests.
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Bahrain activist in court appeal

Monday, September 10th 2012, 15:03

Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab appears in court to appeal against a three-year jail sentence for organising illegal protests.
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Bahrain protesters face tear gas

Friday, September 7th 2012, 19:30
related places: Manama

Police fire tear gas as they clash with demonstrators in Bahrain's capital Manama defying a ban on unauthorised protests.
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Bahrain rejects activists' appeal

Tuesday, September 4th 2012, 9:46

An appeals court in Bahrain upholds the convictions of 20 activists and opposition figures for allegedly plotting to overthrow the state.
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Rajab cleared of Tweeting charges

Thursday, August 23rd 2012, 17:33
related places: Manama

Jailed Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is acquitted of defaming people on the social network Twitter by a court in the capital Manama.
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Teenager killed in Bahrain riot

Saturday, August 18th 2012, 14:50

Police in the Gulf state of Bahrain claim self-defence after a youth of 16 is killed during a riot but the opposition say he was kicked on the ground.
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Jail term for Bahrain activist

Thursday, August 16th 2012, 10:48

Prominent Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab is jailed for three years for taking part in "illegal gatherings".
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AUDIO: 'My son's desperate to come home'

Monday, August 13th 2012, 6:52
related countries: Qatar, United Kingdom

The UK prime minister to try to help a British woman who lives in Bahrain to be reunited with her son Adam, who is being kept in Qatar by the family of her late husband, Adam's father.
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Bahrain 'weaponising' tear gas

Wednesday, August 1st 2012, 17:33
related countries: United States

A US rights group accuses the authorities in Bahrain of indiscriminately using tear gas as a weapon against anti-government protesters.
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Stranded Indians to leave Bahrain

Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 14:57
related countries: India

About 100 Indian workers stranded in Bahrain for six years are able to return home after a deal is reached between the Indian embassy and their former employer.
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Bahrain activist Rajab imprisoned

Monday, July 9th 2012, 14:07

The prominent Bahraini human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, is sentenced to three months in jail over comments on Twitter, his lawyer says.
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Britain probes Bahrain bomb plot

Monday, July 2nd 2012, 16:09
related countries: United Kingdom

Britain has sent a team of forensic detectives to Bahrain to help investigate a huge find of advanced bomb-making materials last month.
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Bahrain activist Rajab released

Wednesday, June 27th 2012, 15:48

The prominent Bahraini human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, is freed after three weeks in detention.
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Bahrain police face murder trial

Wednesday, June 27th 2012, 7:25

A court in Bahrain rules that three policemen accused of killing three people during pro-democracy protests in March 2011 should be tried for murder.
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Bahrain cuts medics' sentences

Thursday, June 14th 2012, 19:31

Bahrain's appeal court acquits nine medics and reduces the sentences of another nine - all convicted last year for taking part in protests.
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Bahrain releases 'boy protester'

Monday, June 11th 2012, 15:03

A Bahraini boy is freed from prison a month after being arrested for taking part in anti-government protests.
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Bahrain rights activist detained

Wednesday, June 6th 2012, 18:07

Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is back in detention, his lawyers say, in the fifth case against him since May.
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Leading Bahrain activist released

Wednesday, May 30th 2012, 9:55

A pro-democracy activist in Bahrain who was arrested last month after staging a lone protest on a main road is released from jail after paying a fine.
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Bahrain: Khawaja ends 110-day fast

Tuesday, May 29th 2012, 9:40

Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has ended his 110-day hunger strike, his wife says, and activist Nabeel Rajab is released from prison on bail.
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Bahrain bails leading dissident

Monday, May 28th 2012, 11:42
related countries: Lebanon
related places: Beirut

Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is released on bail, after he was arrested on 5 May returning from Beirut.
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Bahrain activist attends retrial

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 12:50
related places: Manama

Leading Bahraini political and human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja appears in court in the capital, Manama, for his retrial.
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