Middle East
Bahrain Court Upholds Life Sentences for Activists
Bahrain Overturns ActivistÂ’s Twitter Case
Secret Clinics Tend to Bahrain’s Wounded
Three young men were slumped on a living room mat, groaning with pain from nuggets of birdshot lodged in a cheek, a forehead and under the lid of an eye. Bahrain s nightly protests had exacted their reliable toll. Friends dragged the men away from the clashes and the riot police, to a safe house nearby. Soon, it was time to go, but not to a hospital: the police were there, too. "No one goes to the hospital," one protester said.
Bahrain Protests Intensify Before Formula One Race
Bahraini Protester Dies After Being Shot at Demonstration
Report Details Excessive Force Used Against Bahrain Protests
The head of an international commission investigating Bahrain s sweeping crackdown on antigovernment protests over the summer said on Wednesday that security forces used excessive force, including torture and forced confessions, against detainees in a campaign that deeply polarized the country, a prominent American ally in the Gulf.
Bahrain Nervously Awaits Revolt Report’s Findings
Bahrain's forgotten revolt sometimes reads like the script for a film of international intrigue, where the truth remains elusive. - Bahrain s protests in February and March stand as the opening credits to a plot that remains unresolved today, in an oil-rich region that sits at the nexus of American hegemony, regional rivalries and looming instability. In all the revolts that have roiled the Arab world this year, Bahrain s government managed a tactical, perhaps ephemeral victory through force.