Press TV- Bahraini regime forces have attacked anti-regime protesters who took to the streets in several areas to mark the countrys Independence Day. On Monday evening, protesters staged demonstrations on Sitra Island and the villages of Barbar, Abu Saiba and Shakhoura on the anniversary of the countrys independence from Britain on August 15, 1971....

Press TV- A Bahraini rights group has reported an unprecedented rise in human rights violations in Bahrain, saying the abuses are taking place in a more systematic manner. In its annual report, titled Bahrain...The Map of Persecution: Undermining Civil Society and released on Sunday, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said it had documented ...

Press TV- Bahraini people have held fresh anti-regime protest rallies across the kingdom in support of prominent Shia opposition cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim ahead of his trial session. On Thursday evening, the protesters took to the streets throughout the country, including in the capital, Manama, the village of Sanabis in the capitals countryside,...

Alwaght- Bahraini people have vowed to continue resisting the Western-backed Al Khalifa regime which is suppressing peaceful protests in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom. Early Thursday Bahraini regime forces brutally attacked supporters of a prominent Shiite Muslim scholar with some sources confirming that one of the protestors was tortured to ...

Press TV- A court in Bahrain has handed down prison sentences ranging from seven to ten years to six anti-regimecampaigners over their alleged involvement in an attack on Al Khalifah regime forces in the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom. On Friday, Bahrain's Fifth High Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Ibrahim Al Zayed, sentencedfive defendants to ...

Press TV- Dozens of Bahraini protesters have been injured when they came under attack by Manamas forces during fresh anti-regime rallies across the country. On Saturday, Bahraini police forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters in several areas, including Sitra Island as well as the villages of Maameer and Nuwaidrat. Reports ...

Bahraini people have staged anti-regime demonstrations across the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom in support of distinguished Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Issa Qassim, who recently had his citizenship removed by the Al Khalifah regime. On Friday evening, protesters marched along streets in the northern villages ofBarbar, Karbabad, Maqaba, Abu Saiba, ...

Bahraini people have staged another mass rally to express their support for distinguished Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, who recently had his citizenship removed by the regime in Manama. On Sunday morning, protesters took to the streets close to the residence of the 79-year-old cleric, who is the spiritual leader of Bahrains main opposition ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Following the Bahraini regimes move to prevent Shia worshippers from attending Friday prayers at the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the northwestern village of Diraz, a huge number of people marched on foot to the mosque to voice their anger at the decision. Bahraini security forces in Diraz banned those attending the Imam Sadiq Mosque from ...

Iran has censured Bahrain for suspending the activities of the Arab countrys main Shia opposition group, saying such moves will further complicate the conflict in the tiny Persian Gulf state. On Thursday, Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansariaccused the Manama regime of confronting peaceful public protests by intensifying security ...

Shia Muslim clerics in Bahrain have stopped holding congregational prayers in the country in protest at the heavy-handed crackdown and persecution by the ruling Al Khalifah regime. The clerics, in a statement titled Those Barred from Praying released on Thursday, condemned the Bahraini regimes efforts to restrict Shia Muslims freedom of religion ...

Bahrainis hold hundreds-strong protests throughout Manama, venting rage at a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that has more than doubled the jail sentence against the countrys top opposition leader. On Tuesday, the protesters defied a curfew placed over the village of Saar, west of the capital, chanting angry slogans and setting the British flag ...

Alwaght- The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy slammed Formula Ones governing body for staging auto races in the Persian Gulf kingdom while serious human rights violations continue in the country. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy in a letter to Jean Todt, president of Formula Ones governing body, the FIA, raised its concerns ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Bahraini regime, in another attempt to silence voices of dissent, has revoked the nationality of five more Bahraini citizens on political grounds, local reports said. A Bahraini court sentenced the five Bahrainis to jail terms ranging from 5 to 15 years and stripped them of their citizenship, the Arabic-language Al-Ahed ...

People in Bahrain have taken to the streets to show their growing frustration with the ruling Al Khalifah regime, calling for the release of political prisoners. Protesters rallied in the village of Sanabis, on the outskirts of the capital Manama, on Monday. They chanted slogans against the Al Khalifah family and expressed solidarity with political ...

A court in Bahrain has sentenced four anti-regime protesters to 10 years in prison each over their alleged role in an attack on police forces in the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom. The verdict was announced on Wednesday. No further details have been released yet. In another development, the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights has condemned ...

A court in Bahrain has sentenced 23 people to 10 years in prison each over their alleged involvement in an attack on Al Khalifa regime forces in the Persian Gulf Arab kingdom. According to Bahraini media, the countrys High Criminal Court ruled on Wednesday that the defendants had detonated an explosive device intended to target regime forces. Additionally,...

Bahraini regime forces have clashed with protesters demonstrating to condemn Saudi Arabias recent execution of prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The AlKhalifah regimeforces attacked the demonstrators in the northeastern island of Sitra on Saturday night, firing tear gas at them. Some of the demonstrators reportedly sustained injuries ...

Iran has expressed concern over tightened security measures in the face ofthe legitimate civil demands of the Bahraini people, saying the adoption of punitive action in the tiny Persian Gulf state is of no avail. The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that methods used by the Bahraini government will only intensify the crisis in the country and will ...

The jailed secretary general of Bahrains main opposition bloc has pledged to press ahead with his peaceful campaign for the establishment of democracy in the Persian Gulf country. Political and economic developments have proven right and necessary the oppositions demands for radical reforms in Bahrain, Sheikh Ali Salman, the secretary general of ...