Thanks to the big campaign and continuous pressure applied by society, Dr. Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahlawi and Hussain Al-Habshi have been released from prison at around 11am this morning. I have also confirmed this fact independently. I wish to officially congratulate them for their stance and sacrifice, and hope that with this, the Bahraini government too …
This is a very sad day for the freedom of expression in the Middle East: Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to Prison ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — An Egyptian blogger was convicted of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday in Egypt’s first prosecution of a blogger. Abdel Kareem Nabil, a …
I’ve heard of this before happening in Bahrain, but on the 6th anniversary of The Charter which was the long awaited promise for Bahrain to forge ahead into modern democratic countries, I thought that this particular police method was history. Apparently not, according to this report: القبض على مواطنرهينة ØÂتى يسلم أخوه Ù†ÙÂسه الوسط …
It is with utter sadness that I learnt that journalist Mr. Saleh Al-Amm was handed a 3 month prison sentence or payment of a fine as the court found him guilty of libel in a case brought against him by Ms. Fatima Buali, the ex-manageress of the Almanar Home for the Elderly. This prison sentence …
Post updated at 21:25 on 13 Feb, ’07 with English translation by me of the Bahrain Journalists Association’s press release. The Bahrain Journalists Association has just released a strongly worded press release in which it condemned the minister of municipalities and agriculture’s reneging on an agreement in which I have fully fulfilled. My thanks go …