A court in Bahrain has sentenced three anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down jail terms to nine others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom. On Monday, Bahrain’s Supreme Court of Appeal ...
Prominent Shia cleric in Bahrain, Ayatollah Issa Qassem was taken to the hospital on Sunday night, Bahraini sources said. Ayatollah Qassem, who lost his citizenship and has been for more than one year under house arrest, was hospitalized on Sunday after suffering hip and leg problems that are making it ...
