The Bahraini government recently shuttered the country’s only independent newspaper. Exiled journalist Nazeeha Saeed writes that the media can no longer hold the region’s leaders accountable.
In June the Bahraini Ministry of Information Affairs shut down the Arabic-language daily Al Wasat, the country’s only independent media outlet, “until further notice” because it was in “violation of the law” and had repeatedly published “information that sows division in society and affects Bahrain’s relations with other states,” according to a statement by the ministry that was published by a Bahraini news agency.
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