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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –The Bahraini opposition bloc al-Wefaq has heaped scorn on the government for its desecration of mosques, saying the Al Khalifa regime is in a morally downward spiral. Al-Wefaq made the criticism on Friday, shortly after Bahraini troops targeted a mosque in the northern village of Daih with tear gas, preventing people from praying in the house of worship. Al-Wefaq said Bahraini security forces have also attacked schools and hundreds of homes, causing deaths by suffocation…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - As Bahrainis take to streets today marking two years on the dreadful intervention Saudi troops in Bahrain to stop the pro-democracy protests, the regime forces raided more than 40 residential areas before noon.The regime backed with Saudi troops used its military arsenal to surround and block areas across the country and deployed its forces to face the citizens within the regime's ongoing systematic suppressive policy against citizens demanding democracy.However, the protesters in streets were…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - UK government continues to support tyrant King Hamad who suppresses and kills people of Bahrain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office in UK issued press releaseabout Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, visited Bahrain on 11-12 March 2013. During his two day visit, he attended the first meeting of the ministerial Joint Working Group, led on the Bahraini side by Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa. Mr Burt also met the King,…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Bahraini authorities have detained six people for allegedly defaming the country's ruler on Twitter, according to the country’s public prosecutor’s office. The six, who were not identified, join a growing list of anti-government activists caught up in an Internet crackdown by authorities in the Gulf nation. Meanwhile, Arab interior ministers warned of the spread of extremism through social media networks at a security meeting in Riyadh Wednesday. “Extremist thought... on social networks has resulted in…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Is there a problem with no solution?! Bahrain is sinking into a serious problem that no one can negate because of its pressure on all parties, and the opposition People's weapons in the face of this heavy pressure are his patience, faith of the justice and the case, his deep feeling of the importance of achieving his demands, and going on in that way to achieve these demands. While everyone acknowledging the problem severity,…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Bahrain rights activist Youssef Al-Muhafda who was on trial for the accusation of “spreading false news” was acquitted by court on Monday, his lawyer Mohammed Al-Jishi wrote on his Twitter account. Muhafda, who is the Acting Vice President of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was last month released on bail of 100 dinars ($265). He was arrested on December 17 in Manama for tweeting a picture of an injured protester after he clicked photographs of…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Prominent and well-respected Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammed Sindh warned against al-Khalifas betrayal of the people of Bahrain, saying the King had sold the country to the Saudi invaders and allowed foreign powers to meddle within Bahrain internal affair for the sake of power. He hailed the courage and bravery of the people of Bahrain, noting how very difficult their struggle had become as they were facing "This is what illuminated the hearts of the rightful, the…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Several hundred people called for the king of Bahrain to be held responsible for the killing of protesters during a funeral Tuesday for Mahmoud al-Jaziri, a 20-year-old man shot in the head with a tear gas canister, witnesses said. “Mourners are chanting ‘Down with King Hamad [al-Khalifa]’ and ‘hold him responsible for all the protesters killed and all the crimes committed,” Yousif al-Muhafda, deputy head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, wrote on Twitter.…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –The representatives of 44 countries at the 22nd meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in a joint statement expressed their worries about the human rights conditions in the tiny Persian Gulf island country of Bahrain. "We have special concerns about the continuation of restrictions and solitary confinements of those people who exercise their rights of the freedom of thought and freedom expression," part of the statement read. "We are also worried…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Bahraini demonstrators are staging a sit-in protest in the capital Manama demanding the release of a protester’s body shot dead by Saudi-backed security forces. Huge crowds gathered in front of Salmaniya hospital in an attempt to claim the body of the 20-years-old Mahmood Isa Al Jaziri on Monday.  Jaziri sustained fatal head injuries after directly hit by a tear gas canister fired by regime forces on February 14 in Nabi Saleh, south of Manama, during…