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Inside Bahrain After the Crackdown
Prashad, Vijay
Article
2013
An interview with Nada Alwadi, one of the journalists who reported honestly about the events on the streets of Manama, Bahrain’s capital, and in the rest of the small kingdom. She founded the Bahraini...
Interview with Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
Al-Khawaja, Maryam Abdulhadi
Article
2015
Interview with Bahraini activist Maryam Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.
The Repression in Bahrain
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2016
Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to cru...
Roads to the Arab Uprisings: Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
Wainer, Kit Adam
Article
2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013,...

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Authorities step up offensive against journalists and websites
Sources News Release
2009
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about freedom of expression in Bahrain. In the past couple of months, two journalists have been charged because of what they wrote and the information ministry h...
Bahrain Court Upholds Six Month Sentence Against Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Over Tweet
Al Hussaini, Amira
2015
Nabeel Rajaba has been sentenced to prison for a tweet accusing the Bahrain security agencies for incubating ISIS combatants.
Bahrain: Well-known photographer held for past week, beaten
Sources News Release
2014
Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Ahmed Al-Fardan, an award-winning photojournalist who has been held without charge in Bahrain for the past week.
Judicial persecution of Bahraini news providers continues
Sources News Release
2014
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the five-year jail sentences that a court passed today on the photographer Hussain Hubail and the cyber-activist Jassim Al-Nuaimi. Seven other activists recei...
National Press Club awardee held for past 18 months in Bahrain
Sources News Release
2014
Call for the release of the internationally-known Bahraini photographer Ahmed Humaidan
Nazeeha Saeed - Raising her voice for journalists in Bahrain
Devlin, Megan
2014
Nazeeha Saeed was detained and tortured for 13 hours while covering the 2011 uprisings in Bahrain along with her colleagues. She is now raising awareness for journalists in Bahrain.
Participants at IFEX General Meeting demand action
Sources News Release
2009
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway for the General Meeting (GM) of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
Rights activist arrested over tweet about prison torture
Sources News Release
2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns renewed efforts by the Bahraini authorities to censor online information, including leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's latest arrest on 2 April and attempt...
RSF alarmed by journalist's arrest on terrorism charges in Bahrain
Sources News Release
2016
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is worried by the terrorism charges brought against Mahmood Al Jazeeri, a journalist with the independent daily newspaper Al Wasat, who has been held for the past 11 da...

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