By Andrew Hammond and Warda Al-Jawahiry MANAMA/DUBAI | Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:54am BST (Reuters) – Bahrain’s government and a jailed Shi’ite rights activist who is on hunger strike are playing a game of brinkmanship as his health deteriorates days before the […]

By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:36am BST (Reuters) – Bahrain has arrested at least 60 Shi’ite protest leaders in recent days to try to prevent widescale unrest ahead of a controversial Formula One Grand Prix this week, activists […]

By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Wed Apr 4, 2012 5:34pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim minority, fearful of Shi’ite political assertiveness, is spawning factions that rail against compromise with the island’s sectarian majority, while nursing their own grudges against its Sunni […]

By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:05am EDT (Reuters) – A Bahraini Shi’ite Muslim teenager said three men who appeared to be plainclothes detectives abducted him last week, dragged him into a garage and beat him into unconsciousness after […]

By Andrew Hammond SITRA, Bahrain, March 24 | Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:02pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahraini police clashed with anti-government protesters on Saturday at a Shi’ite town where residents tried to demonstrate against the Gulf Arab state’s holding of a Formula […]

Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:38pm EDT By Andrew Hammond (Reuters) – Bahraini protesters battled with riot police near Manama on Friday after the funeral of a woman whose family said she died after tear gas entered her home twice in the past […]

By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:30pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain is installing video cameras in police stations in an attempt to clean up its human rights image after the crushing of a pro-democracy uprising last year. But the […]

By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:36pm GMT (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia wants Bahrain’s government and opposition to resolve a political crisis that it fears could worsen because of the sectarian fallout of fighting in Syria and destabilise its […]

By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:45pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain will go ahead with the prosecution of 20 medics who treated wounded protesters during an uprising last year, despite a statement suggesting most of the cases would be […]

By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:59pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s king said on Tuesday his island state had rolled out real reforms in the wake of international criticism of its crackdown on protesters last year but now needed […]