Bahrain’s human rights protests increase
Muna Abbas Fadl, a Bahraini researcher, wrote in Lebanon’s independent pro-opposition Al Akhbar that Bahrain is witnessing forums, sit-ins and human rights protests to secure the release of detainees, urge the government to create more jobs and to solve the housing problem.
Bahrain’s human rights protests increase
Muna Abbas Fadl, a Bahraini researcher, wrote in Lebanon’s independent pro-opposition Al Akhbar that Bahrain is witnessing forums, sit-ins and human rights protests to secure the release of detainees, urge the government to create more jobs and to solve the housing problem.
“But there is also much talk about the retreat of political reform and its future prospects,” she wrote. Two prominent events sparked the debate.The first was the government banning citizens from going to foreign conferences after opposition MPs spoke abroad about inequality and corruption in Bahrain. The second was the sacking of the media minister after he gave a television interview to discuss a budgetary report with the head of an opposition group.
“Observers believe that the two incidents represent two indisputable proofs that the space of freedom and the space allowed for the opposition to move in are shrinking and fast. There can be no political development while the authorities cower in fear of the citizens and impose on them an iron collar that “pasteurizes” freedom according to its own taste.”
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