17th September 2013

BAHRAIN MEDIA ROUNDUP

Bahrain questions prominent Shiite opposition figure
Bahraini authorities referred former Shiite opposition MP Khalil Marzooq to the public prosecutor on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, with the opposition saying he has been accused of inciting violence. Marzooq, a prominent gure in the main Shiite opposition Al-Wefaq formation, has been "summoned and referred to the public prosecution," the ministry said on Twitter. The ministry's statement follows calls from Al-Wefaq to release Marzooq, saying he was being held for questioning after police summoned him to AlBudayia station, west of Manama. Former MP Ali Alaswad said that the police had called Marzooq in over a speech he gave last Friday. Read More inciting youth violence and trying to overthrow the government, he added. Wefaq said it considered the move an escalation in the government's campaign to suppress dissent in the kingdom. Mr Marzook is a former deputy speaker of parliament, who resigned along with other Wefaq MPs when the government launched a deadly crackdown on prodemocracy demonstrations in February 2011. Read More Khalil al-Marzooq was on Tuesday summoned to a police station and referred for public prosecution, according to the interior ministry. The main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq, said the arrest of its secretarygenerals political assistant was a clear targeting of political action in Bahrain. Read More

Bahrain opposition leader summoned by police

A leading Bahraini opposition gure was taken by police to the public prosecutor on Tuesday, in what his party said was an attempt to suppress dissent in the U.S.-allied island kingdom.

The Interior Ministry said on Twitter that Khalil alMarzouq, a former lawmaker and an aide to the opposition Al Wefaq party's Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman, had been summoned and taken to the prosecutor. It gave no details. An Al Wefaq spokesman said the fact that Marzouq had been taken to the prosecution ofce meant he had been arrested. Read More member of the Al Wefaq politicial bloc. The group said he is accused of encouraging violence and trying to overthrow Bahrain's Sunni monarchy. The case could further ename tensions in Bahrain. The strategic island kingdom has faced more than 30 months of unrest between security forces and majority Shiites seeking a greater political voice. Read More general of the leading opposition grouping alWefaq, was arrested a day after being summoned by the authorities for questioning. The ministry did not announce what charges he is facing. His arrest sparked an emergency meeting of alWefaq to review what it described as an escalation of moves by the authorities against the opposition. Read More

Bahrain opposition figure Khalil Marzook 'arrested'

A leading member of Bahrain's main Shia opposition party has been arrested. Khalil Marzook, assistant secretary general of Wefaq, was summoned to a police station on Tuesday for questioning over a speech he made last week, one activist said. Mr Marzook was then arrested on charges of

Bahrain opposition says senior figure detained

Bahrain's main opposition party says one of its senior gures has been detained over accusations he incited violence in a speech in the restive Gulf nation. Ofcials did not immediately comment on the case of Khalil alMarzooq, a prominent

Bahraini authorities arrest senior opposition member

Prominent Bahraini opposition member Khalil al-Marzooq was detained and referred to the public prosecutor on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.

Bahrain arrest of opposition politician fuels crackdown fears

Bahrain has detained a senior opposition politician, prompting claims that the Gulf state is stepping up its crackdown on dissent.

Al-Marzooq, a former member of parliament and the deputy secretary

Bahrain files lawsuit to close unlawful Shiite Olamaa Council

Bahraini authorities have led a lawsuit to close a Shiite Muslim clerics' council, accusing it of operating illegally and being involved in politics, the justice ministry said on Monday.

The ministry said it wanted the ofce of the Olamaa Islamic Council to be closed and its assets liquidated for "functioning outside the law." The council, which is led by prominent cleric Issa Qassem, "violates the constitution and the laws of the kingdom," the ministry said, accusing its members of "using it to practise politics under a confessional cover." Read More that reported two suspicious objects in a road in Isa Town, the state news agency reported. The teams were immediately deployed and after examining the objects they found the rst to be a fake bomb. The other was a gas cylinder with a detonator, police were quoted as saying. Read More

Nicholas McGeehan told RT.

HRW evidence of Bahraini child protesters abused, threatened with rape and electrocution only tip of iceberg
The report conrming that Bahraini authorities routinely detain and abuse children involved in protests is only tip of the iceberg and may lead to the Gulf monarchy losing support from US and UK, HRWs

Information recently obtained from victims, family members, and local rights activists suggests that Bahraini authorities often hold children for long periods in detention and subject them to similar forms of mistreatment as adult detainees, including beatings and threats of torture, the Human Right Watch press release, which was issued on Tuesday, said. Read More to combat cyber-terrorism and enhance cyber-security in the GCC was approved by the GCC Supreme Council in its 33rd session in Bahrain. The issue of introducing a legislation to regulate websites and online content providing platform was discussed and approved by the Cabinet on Sunday. Read More

Police defuse roadside bomb outside Bahrains capital

Bahraini security forces defused a homemade bomb on Tuesday in a town outside the capital. Police learnt of the bomb after receiving a call at 8am

Bahrain to regulate websites, online portals

The Kingdom of Bahrain is working on devising a mechanism to regulate the websites and online content providing platforms in fulllment of the Riyadh Document a unied system