By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:30pm EST (Reuters) – A report that slammed Bahrain for using systematic torture to crush pro-democracy protests has put pressure on the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state to take some steps toward political reform […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:07pm EST (Reuters) – Bahrain’s security forces used excessive force to suppress pro-democracy protests earlier this year, torturing detainees to get confessions, an inquiry panel charged with investigating abuses said on Wednesday. The […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:32pm GMT (Reuters) – Bahrain admitted Monday its forces had used excessive force and mistreated detainees during pro-democracy protests, as it awaited the release of an independent report expected to criticise the Gulf […]
By Andrew Hammond and Mitra Amiri DUBAI/TEHRAN, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Iran denied on Monday it had any link to an alleged plot to stage attacks in Bahrain and a lawyer for two accused men said reports they had confessed were not […]
Tunisia’s election is finally over and we have the first post-uprising victory of a Brotherhood calque. But the events in Sidi Bouzid certainly marred the process. I turned up there mid-Friday afternoon when the town courthouse and National Guard building were still burning furiously. […]
By Andrew Hammond SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia | Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:36pm BST (Reuters) – Smoke billowed from a wrecked police station in Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid Friday after protesters angry that their election candidates were disqualified rampaged through the town that was […]
By Andrew Hammond SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia | Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:50pm EDT (Reuters) – This provincial Tunisian town became the cradle of the “Arab Spring” revolts nearly a year ago because residents were fed up with being talked down to by […]
TUNIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Tunisian Islamists who won a historic election victory this week are expected to promote business-friendly economic policies but Europe’s economic woes could favour Gulf investors in the short term, analysts say. Tweet
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam – he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever. […]
By Andrew Hammond and Tarek Amara TUNIS | Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:46pm EDT (Reuters) – Islamists are expected to do well in Tunisia’s first democratic election Sunday, 10 months after the ouster of autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in a […]