In a shocking attack on the right to freedom of expression Bahrain’s authorities upheld the conviction of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and increased his prison sentence from four to nine years for giving speeches in which he criticized the government, said Amnesty International.
«Sheikh Ali Salman’s conviction is clearly politically motivated and is designed to send a message to others that even legitimate and peaceful demands for reform will not go unpunished. He is a prisoner of conscience and should never have been put on trial in the first place. He must be immediately and unconditionally released,» said James Lynch, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty International.
Sheikh Ali Salman, who is the Secretary General of the main opposition party al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, was originally sentenced on June 16, 2015 after an unfair trial to four years in prison on…
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PARIS, (ST)-In preparation for bringing the Saudi-Israeli secret relations to light, Saudi Arabia has begun the construction of a huge embassy in «Israel», probably the most important in Tel-Aviv, according to Voltaire Network.
Meetings between Saudi intelligence officers and Israeli officials have recently become open, reflecting the two sides’ insistence to boost mutual relations.
DAMASCUS: If you haven’t noticed, the fighting in Syria is diminishing in many areas. One of them is Damascus where both Alqaeda and its affiliates, and, Jaysh Al-Islam, have found themselves mostly on the run. Even the so-called Southern Front has lost wind as the Zionist Apartheid State appears to be committed only to logistical support and medical treatment of wounded rodents, an avocation for which the ghetto rodent quacks are eminently qualified.
Well-informed sources told Al-Manar that Yemeni negotiators in Kuwait concluded an agreement on exchanging 1000 prisoners who belong to both sides of the talks before the Holy Month of Ramadan.
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