A Chamber of Deputies session was adjourned for one hour following a heated argument over the issue of citizens who were tortured under the Security Law during the 1990s, with two deputies accusing the Speaker of infringing on their right to express their opinion. The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Khalifa Al Dhahrani, adjourned …
كنت أشكو لأØÂد الزوار منمشكلاتنا مع الÙÂساد والمÙÂسدين، مشيرا إلى ØÂديث جلالة الملك – ØÂÙÂظه الله – بشأنذلك الأمر ÙÂيخطابه عند اÙÂتتاØÂÙ‡ دور الانعقاد السابق، ÙÂقال ليالزائر: “بوس إيدك مقلوبة”! ÙÂقلت له: لماذا؟ ÙÂقال: سأرويلك قليلا عما يجريÙÂيبلادي. ورØÂبت بذلك، وسأنقل لكم جانبا مما قاله الزائر عنبلاده …
That’s the press , publications and censorship department of the Ministry of (dis)Information coming out of the screen telling an internet surfer: “go to porn sites as much as you like, but politics? FORBIDDEN!”
Al-Wefaq won’t be playing come October 2006. They’re just not interested, and judging by how impotent our parliament, its bylaws and the constitution is and the impossibility of changing it from within, I don’t blame them. Yes, I realise that this is a change in my position. I was angered by their first boycott, fully …
Member of Parliament, the right honourable Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi, an upstanding citizen, and erstwhile Imam of a mosque in Riffa, and brought to parliament rightly by gathering 1673 votes in a hard-fought and contested election in his Southern Governate out of 4,413 (as opposed to any candidate in the Northern Governate who would have had …