GENEVA — A crackdown on human rights in Bahrain, including a resumption of executions and suppression of dissent, is likely to spark increased unrest, U.N. rights investigators said on Friday.
U.S.-allied Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, crushed mass protests by the Shi’ite Muslim majority in 2011 and the Sunni-led monarchy has kept a lid on unrest since then by closing Shi’ite-led opposition groups and prosecuting activists.
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