The Fence, originally uploaded by malyousif. The dogs keep bloody well digging this particular spot. Every time I fix it, wake up the next morning and it’s ruined. So today I decided to put a bloody fence around the feature and hope that they won’t just jump in and dig once again. This enclosure was …
Month: June 2005
TWO international human rights organisations have condemned charges filed against women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer. Ms Jamsheer, who heads the Women’s Petition Committee says she will go to jail rather than be silenced. Human Rights Watch and the Arab Programme for Human Rights Activists (APHRA) have each called for all charges against her to be …
A leading human rights organisation is urging the Bahraini government to drop the charges against a woman’s rights activist set to be tried on Saturday for criticisng family court judges. Ghada Jamsheer faces up to 15 years in prison for three incidents of alleged “slander” over her criticism of how women are treated by the …
The Forums are off for the time being, possibly for ever. They have been abused by various people and have become a slugging and mud-slinging venue rather than a place for good discussion that would bring minds together. May I respectfully suggest that if anyone wants to start a topic on any subject that takes …
What’s the future like for our children in Bahrain when 95% of the land are in private hands. How did a country as tiny as Bahrain end up in a situation where a few individuals own the vast majority of the land mass? How did that happen? How it happened is quite well known to …