The head of the British Armed Forces has visited Bahrain, one day after the Bahraini regime stripped leading Shia cleric Sheikh Issa Qassem of his citizenship. The visit of General Sir Nicholas Houghton, Chief of Britain’s Defense Staff (CDS), has been denounced as London’s consent to Manama’s recently-intensified crackdown on ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement issued on Monday (June 20, 2016) that the decision to strip Sheikh Issa Qassem of his citizenship “takes Bahrain into the darkest days it has seen since the protests and crackdown of 2011.” “The Bahraini authorities are shutting the door on political ...
