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A Bahrain court upheld jail terms against 13 leading opposition figures, including seven facing life in prison, over charges of plotting to overthrow the monarchy.Among those sentenced activist were Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who in June 2012 ended a 110-day hunger strike, Hasan Mushaima and Abduljalil al-Singace, both leaders of the banned Shia group, Haq movement, as well as Sunni leftist Ibrahim ...
A Bahrain appeals court acquitted activist Nabeel Rajab, who had been handed a three-month jail sentence on 9 July 2012 for alleged insults made on Twitter to members of the Sunni community. He has however, still will serve a three-year term for "unauthorised" protests against Bahrain's Sunni monarchy. [97]
January 1 - A funeral of a Bahraini youth killed the previous day (December 31) in a protest turns into another protest with police forced to use tear gas. January 15 - Opposition leaders and activists say reforms proposed by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa are "cosmetic" and will do little to stop the uprising.
On 21 February, the Bahrain News Agency, a branch of Bahrain's Ministry of Culture and Information, claimed that 300,000 Bahraini residents (more than fifty percent of the local population; Bahrain local population is 568,000), [23] has gathered in the grounds opposite Al Fateh Mosque in Manama to support the ruling monarchy. [24]
On 15 February, King Hamad appeared on television and offered condolences for the deaths of two protesters, said that a parliamentary committee to investigate the deaths would be created, and stated that peaceful protests are legal. [90] The following day the president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, said that the King's ...
Protesters gathering at Pearl Roundabout for the first time on 15 February. Police retreated from Pearl Roundabout to the northern area close to Bahrain City Centre. The events were one of a string of protests that occurred across the Arab world following the self-immolation and eventual death of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia, the majority Shia population of Bahrain, as well as some Sunni ...
Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet, is in the midst of a decadelong crackdown on all dissent following the Arab Spring protests, which saw the island’s Shiite majority and ...
15 Jan 2012 Bahrain Centre for Human Rights claims she died as a result of suffocation by teargas when security forces fired a canister into her house. [55] Yaseen Jassim Al-Asfoor 11 or 14 Ma'ameer 20 Jan 2012 Bahrain Centre for Human Rights claims that he died after being hospitalized 3 weeks prior to his death as a result of inhaling tear ...