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Pope's Visit to Bahrain to Include Mass at the Bahrain National Stadium, Meeting with the King and Sheikh of Al-Azhar
2022-10-12
The Vatican announced the official program for Pope Francis', who is to visit Bahrain for four days early next month.
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Will Bahrainis Lose Free Healthcare? Questions before the Impending Catastrophe
2022-10-12
The Bahraini health insurance law and the launch of the health card project will take place in 2024. This project; however, may be the worst to ever happen.
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International Human Rights Report Documents Torture of 8 Detainees Sentenced to Death
2022-10-11
A human rights report that documented the issuance of death sentences after torture and sham trials in Bahrain confirmed that court records of the Bahraini authorities show widespread human rights violations
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Bahrain Pulls out of UN Human Rights Body Election after Criticism
2022-10-04
Bahrain will no longer run in an election to the U.N.'s top human rights body later this month, a U.N. website showed, after critics drew attention to alleged human rights violations.
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Bahrain: First State to Announce Decline in Oil Sector
2022-10-04
While the government of Bahrain announced GDP growth of 6.9% in the second quarter of this year, it noted a decline in oil sector growth by 2.2%. So how did the sector's growth decline as oil prices doubled?
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Police Investigates President of Alba's Trade Union after His Demands to Dispense Overtime wages
2022-09-30
Alba Company announced that the company's administration filed a lawsuit at the police station against president of trade union Younis Al-Mubarak, in person, because of union activism and demands of workers rights.
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MoI Complicit with Public Prosecution, Fabricates Case against Sheikh Abduljalil: Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei
2022-09-30
Human rights activist Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei revealed on Thursday (September 29, 2020) that "the Public Prosecution demanded to interrogate Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Meqdad over a complaint lodged by officer Ali Farhan, who lead the assault against Sheik Al-Meqdad."
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Two Bahraini Journalists Banned from Entering the UAE
2022-09-30
The UAE security authorities prevented Bahraini journalists Wafa Al-Aamm and Nazeeha Saeed from entering the UAE.
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Sheikh Al-Meqdad: Two Weeks Ago, I was Taken to Hospital in Car Trunk
2022-09-29
In an audio recording, Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Meqdad revealed that he had been subjected to what he called an "assault attempt," hours after the Interior Ministry claimed he had not been assaulted.
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Democracy of Decree Laundering
2022-09-29
The term money laundering is said to have originated from the mafia's ownership of laundromats to conceal the source of the money obtained as a result of illicit activities such as drug trafficking, where they equipped laundromats with coin-operated washing machines, and at the end of each day they added some of the drug revenues to the revenues of laundry shops.
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Vatican Confirms Pope Francis will Visit Bahrain in November
2022-09-29
Pope Francis will visit the Kingdom of Bahrain from Nov. 3-6 to participate in the "Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence," the Vatican confirmed on Sept. 28.
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Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Meqdad Assaulted and Insulted
2022-09-28
Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Meqdad was assaulted by prison guards after refusing to sign a statement that he refuses to undergo treatment in the hospital.
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Bapco and Alba's Lost Budgets Between Al-Jawaheri and Al-Baqali
2022-09-28
Soon Abdulrahman Jawahery, CEO of Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), will complete a year in office. How has Bapco's status been during his tenure?
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Israeli Entity Grants Bahrain Ambassador "Ambassador of the Year 2022" Award
2022-09-24
The Ambassador's Club of Israel (ACI) awarded the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Israel, Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahma, with the Diplomat of the Year 2022 award and the Ambassador of the Year 2022 award at the ACI's annual ceremony in Herzliya.
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Bahrain Gov't stops Paying Overtime Wages, Substitutes them with "Days off"
2022-09-24
ublic sector workers said that the civil service bureau has issued a directive to stop paying overtime wages in all ministries, institutions, and government agencies, provided that overtime wages be substituted with days off.
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"Government Orders" Postpone General Assembly Meeting of Bahraini Society Against Normalization
2022-09-24
The General Assembly meeting of the Bahraini Society Against Normalization with Zionist Enemy has been postponed by government orders, information revealed.
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Ayatollah Qassim Calls Everyone who Intend to Participate in Election to "Rule their mind and Conscience, Maybe they Step Back"
2022-09-23
Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim described Bahrain's upcoming parliamentary elections as "disastrous for the people," calling on those who intend to participate in the elections to "rule their mind and conscience, and maybe they will step back."
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6 Bahraini Opposition Forces to Boycott Elections
2022-09-23
The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Islamic Action Society, Al-Wafa'a Islamic Party, February 14 Coalition, Bahrain Freedom Movement and Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy announced boycotting the parliamentary and municipal elections to be held on November 12.
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Jawad Fairooz: Authorities Seek to Consolidate Fake Democracy Leading to Legitimization of Tyranny
2022-09-22
Former Bahraini MP and head of Salam Organization for Democracy and Human Rights, Jawad Fairooz, said in a press statement to Daraj website that "the authorities in Bahrain are systematically seeking to consolidate the fake democracy that leads to the legalization of tyranny and absolute monarchy."
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Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, Other Prisoners of Conscience Face Reprisals in Bahrain
2022-09-22
Reliable local reports confirmed that the Jaw Prison administration is currently targeting prominent human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja and other prisoners of conscience in Bahrain with reprisals, Ifex website reported GHCR statement as saying.