MNA Al Saud and Al Khalifa regimes are trying to abuse the Hajj Pilgrimage and the Formula One motor race to their own benefit. Amnesty International has recently announced that Bahrain regime is using Formula One motor race to present a good picture of itself; However, Bahrain has an extremely oppressive regime and any citizen could ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Wednesday slammed the recent verdict by a Bahraini court which stripped 139 Bahrainis from their citizenship and strongly condemned its baseless allegations against Iran as 'totally unfounded'. He said such allegations are baseless as always before. Bahrain's government cannot lodge unfounded ...

Press TV - Bahrain's high court has upheld a five-year jail term against prominent human rightsactivist Nabeel Rajab despite calls from rights groupsto release him. On February 21, a court in Bahrain sentenced the distinguished human rights activist to five years in prison over tweets deemed critical of the Manama regime and the deadly Saudi-led ...

Alwaght - Holding elections and establishing democratic mechanisms marked by recognition of the political parties, freedoms, and civil rights, governance of people, succession of the elites, and other requirements mentioned in the constitutions are the cheapest and main instruments to address the social, political, and economic crises in todays world....

Alwaght - On Saturday, the Bahraini Court of Appeal held its fourth session to see into the case of Sheikh Ali bin Salman, the head of the countrys Al-Wefaq movement, and two of former lawmakers, Hassan Sultan, and Ali al-Aswad, on charges of spying for Qatar. The court overturned the previous acquittalsand sentenced them to life in jail. Since ...

Alwaght - Ali Mushaima has launched an open-ended hunger strike outside Bahrain's embassy in London since 1st August to tell world that the West-backed Al Khalifa regime is slowly killing his father Hassan Mushaima, a prominent opposition figure jailed in Bahrain. He has been spending his nights and long summer days under the extreme heat to say that ...

MNA The Bahraini government is responsible for the deterioration of Sheikh Isa Qassims health conditions and all its consequences, said Iranian Parliamentary Director General for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. In atweeton Monday night, Amir-Abdollahian warned Bahraini government about the health status of Sheikh Isa Qassim....

Tasnim A Bahraini human rights organization voiced deep concern about the deteriorating health condition of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of the Persian Gulf countrys Shiite majority, who has been under house arrest for nearly 400 days. TheBahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), in a statement, said that at 9:35 p.m. on Sunday (local time),...

Press TV - Bahraini regime officials have handed down death sentences to three Shia clergymen and condemned eight others to life imprisonment as the ruling AlKhalifah regime continues with its repressive measures and heavy-handed crackdown on members of the religious community. Bahrains dissolved main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National ...

Press TV - Bahrains king has signed into law a contentious bill recently adopted by the parliament, which bans figures of dissolved opposition parties and organizations from running in parliamentary elections. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa signed off on The Exercise of Political Rights, an amended version of the kingdoms election law which passed ...

Press TV - Bahrainis have rallied near the capital Manama, condemning the ruling Al Khalifah regimes crackdown on Shia scholars, including prominent cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim. The march was held in the village of Abu Saiba on Friday, with the protesters carryinga huge banner portraying the cleric, the spiritual leader of the country's Shia majority....

Press TV - Amnesty International has expressed concern over unfair trials for civilians at military courts in Bahrain and called on King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifah to order the retrial of four men who have recently been sentenced to life imprisonment. In a report released on Wednesday, the UK-based rights group pointed to the death sentences ...

Press TV- People in Bahrain have rallied to condemn the upholding of death sentences handed down to seven pro-democracy activists. On Wednesday evening, scores of Bahrainis marched through the streets and shouted slogans against the Al Khalifah regime in Bilad al-Qadim Town, near the capital, Manama, and elsewhere throughout the country. Rallies ...

Press TV - A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences to four anti-regime protesters as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the kingdom. On Tuesday, Bahrain's FourthHighCriminalCourtsentenced three of the defendants to five years in jail, while the ...

Press TV - Bahraini police have arrested 116 people over allegations of links to terrorism as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents. An official statement on Bahrains state news agency BNA said on Saturday that regime forces had detained 116 members of a terror"cell and thwarted a ...

Press TV - Bahrain continues to be the scene of anti-regime protests on an almost daily basis, as people in the Persian Gulf kingdom gear up to mark the seventh anniversary of their uprising on February 14. Although the rallies against the Al Khalifah dynasty, which started in mid-February 2011, are in the form of peaceful pro-democracy protests,...

Alwaght - Before Arab worlds 2011 uprising erupted, known as Islamic Awakening, Saudi Arabia was identifying itself as the big brother of the smaller Persian Gulf monarchies. This title provided the Arab kingdom with the motivation to react when the status quo was challenged in neighbors. So, When in February 14, 2011, the people of Bahrain revolved ...

Press TV - Pro-democracy campaigners have warned about the significant deterioration of human rights in Bahrain, stating that the ease of international pressure on the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom has emboldened the ruling Al Khalifah regime not to shy away from its heavy-handed crackdown on dissent. Bahrain is now clearly sliding in a new and very ...

Press TV - Bahraini regime forces, backed by masked militiamen, have arrested a Shia Muslim cleric on the northwestern coast ofthe tiny Persian Gulf kingdom as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown and persecution of the members of the religious community in the country. Bahraini forcesstormed the house ...

Press TV - Bahraini regime officials have deported a young man to neighboring Saudi Arabia over his support for prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, whohas been stripped of nationality by the Al Khalifah regime andis suffering from deteriorating health. Ahmed Ali al-Attiya, born to a Saudi father and a Bahraini mother,was handed over to ...