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The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia -dominant and some Sunni minority Bahraini opposition from 2011 until 2014. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and protests in Tunisia and Egypt and escalated to daily clashes after the Bahraini government repressed the ...
The report was featured on several major news outlets including the Associated Press, AFP, BBC, CNN, the Independent, New York Times, and Washington Post. Human Rights First Speaking Softly "Bahrain: Speaking Softly" is a 12-page report published by Human Rights First on 17 May 2011 following a one-week fact-finding mission to Bahrain. In this ...
In recent decades, Bahrain has moved towards banking and the tourism sector making it one of the most important financial hubs in the region and has since held some of the top international rankings in economic freedom and business friendly countries, making it, as of 2012, the freest economy in the Middle East, according to the 2012 edition of ...
Al Jazeera English released a fifty-minute documentary film about the Bahraini uprising entitled Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark, which highlights continuing anti-government protests by Bahraini Shias and shows how Facebook was used to target pro-democracy activists – "unmasking Shia traitors" – and catalogues human rights abuses by the regime.
The media of Bahrain mainly consists of several weekly and daily newspapers, with the Information Affairs Authority controlling Bahrain 's state-owned Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation, which broadcasts radio and television services. [1] The media is predominantly in Arabic though English language and Malayalam newspapers are beginning ...
The Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement, [1] officially Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, [2] is an agreement to normalize diplomatic and other relations between Bahrain and Israel. The agreement was announced by President Donald Trump on September 11, 2020, [3] and ...
Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera stated that Bahrain is considered to be the country most vulnerable to unrest amongst Arab States of the Persian Gulf. [77] In a column dated 14 June 2011 for The Independent veteran British Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk lashed out at Bahraini and Saudi authorities over the treatment of protests and ...
Jeremy Francis John Bowen (born 6 February 1960) is a Welsh journalist and television presenter. He was the BBC 's Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem between 1995 and 2000 [2] and the BBC Middle East editor from 2005 to 2022, before being appointed the International Editor of BBC News in August 2022. [3]