“I am scared,” a Saudi man told me after the Khobar attacks. “There is no clear vision to where my country is heading. We want to progress, but we also want to live like the good Muslims did 1,400 years ago. We want to change, but we believe that change is the road to hell. …

A Bahraini man was jailed for three months yesterday after being convicted of torturing a Bangladeshi employee. The sentence will be suspended if the 26-year-old fish trap maker pays a BD300 fine. He had been charged with assault and injuring the worker, the Lower Criminal Court heard.