By Andrew Hammond MANAMA, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Bahraini police detained two Western activists who led a women’s protest on Friday and deployed water cannon and armoured vehicles to crush a separate demonstration of around 500 people from the majority Shi’ite population […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:07pm EST (Reuters) – More than 120 protesters have been wounded in clashes with police in Bahrain this week, activists said on Wednesday, in a crackdown to stop majority Shi’ites breaking out of […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:28pm GMT (Reuters) – One year after Bahrainis, inspired by uprisings in fellow Arab countries, occupied a central public space in Manama their demands for political reform remain unmet, the economy has drawn […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:57pm EST (Reuters) – Armored vehicles patrolled Bahrain’s capital on Tuesday in a security clampdown to deter protesters after overnight clashes outside Manama on the first anniversary of a forcibly suppressed pro-democracy uprising. […]
MANAMA (Reuters) – Armoured vehicles patrolled Bahrain’s capital on Tuesday in a security clampdown to deter protesters after overnight clashes outside Manama on the first anniversary of a forcibly suppressed pro-democracy uprising. Youths flung petrol bombs at police cars during skirmishes before […]
(Reuters) – One year after Bahrainis, inspired by uprisings in fellow Arab countries, occupied a central public space in Manama their demands for political reform remain unmet, the economy has drawn almost to a halt and sectarian suspicion tears at the fabric […]
(Reuters) – The leader of Bahrain’s largest Shi’ite Muslim opposition party called on youths to refrain from violence in protests ahead of the February 14 anniversary of a revolt crushed by military force. Clashes between Shi’ite youths and police have escalated in […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:15pm IST (Reuters) – A top U.S. lawman hired by Bahrain to help clean up its security practices after revelations of torture used to help crush a protest movement last year said the […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:59am EST (Reuters) – Bahraini riot police waged pitched battles with petrol-bomb throwing youths on Sunday as violence escalated before the February 14 anniversary of an uprising last year, while King Hamad suggested […]
By Andrew Hammond Manama | Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:29pm GMT (Reuters) – Bahrain expelled two American rights activists Saturday after police used teargas and stun grenades to break up a protest Saturday that tried to march toward the roundabout at the […]