Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00 GMT By Andrew Hammond MANAMA, Sept 28 (Reuters) – In the rubbish-strewn streets of Sanabis, the police are on the prowl for the culprits. A group of Shi’ite teenagers and women, some of them mothers, some of […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:10pm BST (Reuters) – Fewer than one in five voters cast ballots in Bahraini by-elections this weekend, a government website showed, after the Shi’ite majority in the Gulf Arab state boycotted the polls […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:44pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s main opposition boycotted elections on Saturday held to fill parliamentary seats vacated by its members during a crackdown on a mostly Muslim Shi’ite protest movement in the Sunni-ruled […]
This Wikileaks cable from May 2006 – one of the latest released concerning Saudi Arabia – is interesting in light of the uprisings: http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/05/06RIYADH3312.html (released 2 July 2011). It appears to be the conclusion of considerable research by the embassy – and hats off […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Thu Jun 9, 2011 10:17am BST (Reuters) – Sectarian tension between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims has reached new heights in Bahrain after pro-democracy protests that the Sunni minority government crushed with martial law and foreign military forces. […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Wed Jun 1, 2011 6:07pm BST (Reuters) – Bahraini Shi’ites say they have endured a reign of terror during 11 weeks of martial law imposed to break up a pro-democracy movement that for the first time threatened […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue May 31, 2011 12:27pm EDT (Reuters) – As martial law comes to an end in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain this week, opposition activists are wondering whether they threw away what might have been the […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Sun May 29, 2011 1:54pm EDT (Reuters) – The leader of Bahrain’s main Shi’ite opposition party said on Sunday his goal was to help bring political reform, rejecting accusations of taking orders from Iran or seeking to […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Thu May 5, 2011 2:18pm IST (Reuters) – Bahraini media have played a central role in a crackdown on Shi’ite Muslims following the suppression of pro-democracy protests that threatened the Sunni monarchy’s grip on power, analysts say. […]