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Al-Aswad: Bahrain's Stance towards Saudi Situation is “Siding with Upper Hand”
2017-11-08
Prominent Bahraini opposition figure Ali Al-Aswad said the Bahraini government’s official position on recent events in Saudi Arabia was “siding with party that has the upper hand.”
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Bahraini Justice Minister Obligates Lawyers and Legal Firms to Report “Money laundering, Terror funding” Suspicions
2017-11-08
Bahrain’s Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments Minister Khalid bin Ali Al-Khalifa issued edict 64 of 2017 stipulating that lawyers and foreign legal firms should commit to measures on combating and prohibiting money laundering and terror funding.
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Bahrain Commander-in-Chief Receives Top British Military Official
2017-11-08
Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa met with a high-ranking British military official, reported the Bahrain News Agency (BNA).
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Amnesty International Says Ebtisam Al-Sayegh Still at Risk of Detention
2017-11-08
Amnesty International called for urgent action, demanding that all charges raised against human rights defender Ebtisam Al-Sayegh be dropped, noting that she remains at risk of detention.
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Maria Khouri Elected Head of NIHR
2017-11-07
The commissioners at the Bahrain National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) elected Maria Khouri in the position of the institute’s president, as a successor for Saeed Al-Faihani, who was appointed an ambassador at the Bahrain Foreign Ministry.
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Analysts Say Future Saudi King’s Purge Aimed to Remove Potential Opposition to his Ambitious Reform Agenda, Reuters
2017-11-07
Saudi Arabia’s future king has tightened his grip on power through an anti-corruption purge by arresting royals, ministers and investors including billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal who is one of the kingdom’s most prominent businessmen.
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Bahrain Raises Tensions amid Gulf Dispute, Says Has Right to Claim Territory in Qatar
2017-11-07
Bahrain News Agency publishes report saying Manama has every right to claim Qatari land, a move considered to escalate the Gulf dispute with Qatar.
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Shura Members Reject Proposal Imposing Deadline on Gov’t for Implementing Approved Parliament Proposals
2017-11-06
Bahrain’s Shura Council members rejected in their session a parliamentary law that they dubbed “an attempt to have parliamentarians interfere in the executive authority jurisdictions.”
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Bahrain Urges its Nationals to Leave Lebanon Immediately
2017-11-06
Bahraini Foreign Ministry called on Bahrainis in Lebanon to leave immediately in a statement, also urging them to completely avoid traveling to Lebanon.
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Bahrain Imposes Citizens Use Passports in Qatar Travel
2017-11-06
Bahrain Security Authorities imposed on its citizens to travel to Qatar using only their passports.
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Washington Calls on Bahrain to Investigate Confessions of Activist Alwadaie’s Family Extracted under Duress
2017-11-05
United States urged its ally Bahrain to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into allegations that three members of Activist Sayed Ahmad Alwadaie’s family gave confessions extracted under duress.
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Bahrain: At Least Two Citizens Arrested in 48 Hours
2017-11-04
Activists on social media confirmed that Bahraini authorities have arrested at least two citizens in the last 48 hours in Bahrain.
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Bahraini Jailed for ‘Insulting King’ Deported to Iraq, Amnesty International
2017-11-04
Bahraini citizen convicted of “insulting the king” and stripped of his nationality has been deported to Iraq after serving a two-year jail sentence, Amnesty International said on Friday.
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Prisoners' Commission: Procedure Established for Organizing Visits to Inmates and Detainees
2017-11-04
The Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission said it approved a procedure for organizing announced and unannounced visits to prisoners and pre-trial detainees in the places they our held.
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Head of Parliament Financial Committee: Selective Tax to be Imposed at Onset of 2018
2017-11-04
The Chairman of the Bahraini Parliament’s Financial and Economic Committee, MP Abdul Rahman Buali, declared that the selective tax will be applied early next year.
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Renewing ID Cards through eKey Single-Sign-On System by End of 2017
2017-11-03
CEO of the Information and e-Government Authority Mohammad Ali Al-Qaed said that the authority is working on providing service of renewing the identity cards through eKey Single-Sign-On System that allows renewing all the individual's expired cards in one step through the eGovernment National Portal, indicating that the service is expected to be launched before the end of 2017.
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Bahrainis Make up Only 45% of Bahrain's Population
2017-11-03
The latest statistics published by Bahrain’s Information and eGovernment Authority revealed that the Bahraini population reached 1,501,000, of which 45% are Bahrainis that amounted to 677,000 compared to 823,000 foreigners.
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King Hamad Receives President of UN General Assembly
2017-11-03
King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received, at the Al-Safriya Palace yesterday, the President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Miroslav Lajcak, on a visit to the kingdom to participate in the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF 2017).
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6-Month Jail Term Issued against 2 Shiite Clerics
2017-11-03
A Bahraini court sentenced on Wednesday (November 1, 2017) two Shiite clerics to 6 months in jail over assembling in Manama in 2011.
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Mulla Hani Al-Biladi Released after Serving his Prison Term over Diraz Assembly Case
2017-11-03
The Bahraini authorities released on Wednesday (November 1, 2017) Mulla Hani Al-Biladi after serving a 3-month jail verdict over assembling in Diraz.