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Bandargate Scandal:

The Report: What it says
Conspiring Against the Shia
Petition to HM the King
Video: Press Conf at UK House of Lords
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BCHR website blocked
22 sites currently blocked in Bahrain

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Worth reading

US State Department : Bahrain Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007
BAHRAIN SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
BBC: Bahrain Shia call for activists' release
BCHR: Bahraini Authorities Persistent Campaign Defaming Human Rights Defenders: Signals Possible Crackdown
Los Angeles Times: Some members of the ruling family reportedly back hard-line

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Injuries of Abbas Abdali, brother of activist Musa Abdali, after being attacked by masked men on July 6, 2006.

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Local media headlines

Bahrain Tribune:Ministry orders to shut down Web sites
GDN:Websites shut
Bahrain Tribune:Detained teachers are ‘Iran spies’
Bahrain Tribune:3 years for attacking cops
GDN:New rights bid to free teachers
GDN:Trial reprieve
GDN:'Slogan row' Bahraini held

International media headlines

Reporters sans frontières: Press law amendments hailed but journalists still face jail and websites risk closure
MEED: A GCC labour and passport solution
Reuters: Saudi says detaining Bahrainis, media says Iran spies
Reuters:Bahrain speaks out against war on Iran
Reuters :Bahrain wants early warning of any move on Iran
The Medialine:Bahrain's Shi'ite Minority Warns of Escalating Sectarian Rift
AP:Bahrain Shiites protest articles on their cleric

BCHR in the Media

AHN: Bahrain Rights Groups Condemn Ban On New Visas For Bangladeshi Workers
GDN:MPs' proposal xenophobic SAY vice-president Nabeel Rajab
AHN:Bahrain Rights Group Urges Lifting Restrictions On Banned NGO
Gulf News: Bahrain grapples with sectarian divide
Bahrain Center for Human Rights : Court - Appointed Medical Examiners Confirm Torture
FinalCall.com News : U.S. allies in Middle East accused of rights abuses
Arab League's proposed satellite broadcasting regulations would impede needed criticism of corruption and repression

International NGOs releases

Reporters sans frontières: Press law amendments hailed but journalists still face jail and websites risk closure
HAQ:HAQ concerned about indirect torture- detainees exposed infectious disease inside prison
HAQ:Bahrain: In the first case hearing, State-militia car detainees spell out suffering of torture
UN:Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review
BYSHR: Human Rights defender under Threat of Prosecution Once Again
NGO Submission by NCMVT Related to Bahrain for the Session scheduled April 2008 - 20 November 2007
Amnesty International Report 2008:Attacked on Human rights defenders and Activitis
Bahrain: Detention and torture of seven human rights defenders
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bahrain: “Not Qualified” for UN Rights Council Election
84 Asian organizations succeed to convince the UN General Assembly members to reject Sri Lanka’s Human
HAAQ:Bahrain: Resurrection of State Security Courts .. Prosecutions without Lawyers
Pakistan and Bahrain must now live up to the standards set for Human Rights Council membership,” said Juliette de Rivero
Statement by National and Int. NGO’s On the Candidacy of Bahrain to Human Rights Council
Statement by National and Int. NGO’sOn the Candidacy of Bahrain to Human Rights Council
THE OBSERVATORY: Hearing in the trial of seven human rights defenders
HAQ: Medical Report Asserts Torture of December detainees
Universal Periodic Review of the State of Bahrain- Human Rights Watch's Submission to the Human Rights Council
Recommendations to the Government of Fodh: Bahrain on the occasion of the 1st Universal Periodic Review Session, April 2008
The Economist: Bahrain Not so sunny for Shias
THE OBSERVATORY: OPEN LETTER TOTHE KING OF BAHRAIN

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