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Three or four weeks ago I almost freaked out. I woke up at 4am with pain in my chest, and the back of the neck. No, I was not sweating although I can’t particularly remember. As I detest illness and hospitals, I put it down to gas. Later on that same morning, my dad was …

Reports land journalist in the dock

A 52-year-old Bahraini journalist is being prosecuted for allegedly writing for a newspaper abroad without government permission. He should have had official permission from the Information Ministry, the Lower Criminal Court heard. The defendant, a journalist for nearly 30 years, is charged with illegally working as a correspondent for a Kuwaiti newspaper. He admitted at …