The Democracy Coalition Project, which is an initiative of the Open Society Institute committed to conducting research and advocacy relating to democracy promotion policies worldwide, and was inspired by a landmark international political event in Warsaw, Poland in June 2000, in which over 100 governments participated and ultimately included Bahrain in 2002 and again in …
Here we go again: UAE online forum administrator sentenced to prison Earlier this month, on August 8th, Mohamed Rashed al-Shohhi, an online forum administrator in the Emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) has been sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of nearly US$ 13,600 (Dh50,000) for content deemed defamatory published by anonymous on …
Mohammed Khalid, that effervescent Islamist MP, wants to gift the five erstwhile Guantanamo detainees BD50,000 (~US$132k) as a “for the suffering and torture they were forced to endure in the US prison camp“. Huh? Oy! Bub! Listen: when we defended their right to a fair trial we didn’t sign up to make them the luminaries …
It took two years of continuous struggle and hard work and only a few seconds for the Malkiya beachfront situation to be resolved. The king – yes, himself – intervened and ordered the illegal fish-traps removed. The traps of course were installed to prevent people from “trespassing” in the sea in front of a hardly …
الأمور بدأت ÙÂيالتØÂول تزامناً مع الثورة الإيرانية وواصل بوØÂسينØÂديثه بالإشارة إلى ذكريات تجربته بالعمل ÙÂيالØÂكومة بعد الثورة الإيرانية ÙÂيالعام 1979ØŒ مبيناً أنه كانمديراً تنÙÂيذياً ÙÂيديوانالخدمة المدنية، وأنه لاØÂظ آنذاك تغيراً ÙÂيتوجه الجهة الرسمية، الذيراÙÂقه توجس الØÂكومة منقطاع منالشعب الذينيمثلهم الشيعة، وخصوصاً ÙÂيما يتعلق …