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Anti-government factions have increasingly used homemade rebombs and explosives against security forces. More than 50 people have been killed in Bahrain's unrest since February 2011, when Shiiteled demonstrators began a renewed uprising for a greater political voice in the Sunniruled kingdom. A government statement Friday said the policeman was receiving treatment outside Bahrain when he died a day earlier. He was injured in April in what authorities call a "domestic terror attack." Read More It said the man died abroad, where he was undergoing treatment, but gave no further details. Thirty-ve people were killed in an uprising against the Sunni-led government, led by the country's Shi'ite Muslim majority, early in 2011, including ve security personnel. The opposition says more than 45 other people have died in political violence since martial law ended in June 2011, a gure disputed by the government. Read More
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six-month sentence when an appeal court upheld guilty verdicts against them. While the ruling reduced their sentences from ten years and three years respectively, family members immediately expressed their dismay, calling the ruling a nightmare. Their lawyers have said they will appeal the decision before Bahrains Court of Cassation. Read More The deadly silence of the international community has given the Al Khalifa regime freedom to continue suppressing and killing people and they keep [creating] human rights catastrophes by attacking defenseless people, Hossein Sobhani-Nia, member of Majlis (parliament) Presiding Board, said on Friday. Read More Ofcials from the Interior Ministry have further warned that those who defy the ban will face legal action. The general director of the Central Governorate Police said that Al Wefaq had submitted a request to the directorate to hold a rally in Eker on Sunday. Read More
We insist that the Bahraini authorities respect the principles of medical neutrality and the rights of individuals to freedom of assembly and expression, as codied in the Geneva Conventions. David Moore, On behalf of the Irish Institute of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery. Read More undermine unity and harm the interests of the nation and citizens.
Bahrain denies opposition groups request to hold rally over alleged harassment
Bahrains security authorities on Saturday announced that it had denied permission to the main opposition group, Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, to hold a mass rally in Eker.