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British thinktank received £25m from Bahraini royals, documents reveal

See also Bahrain Watch
and Al Jazeera

Muslim-Jewish Dialogue on Friday, December 9th | IECOC | Islamic Educational Center of Orange County

Christians and the Muhammadan Covenants

Fifteen Saudi Shia sentenced to death for ‘spying for Iran’ – BBC News

Human Rights Groups to Theresa May: Use Influence to End Repression in Bahrain – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

See ADHRB Newsletter 185.
On the 7 December protest at the Bahrain national day commemoration at Trump’s hotel in Washington, see here.

‘The [Bahrain] criminal court postponed the trial of Bahrain’s Shia spiritual leader Sheikh Isa Qassim and two others to 4 December 2016. The authorities are prosecuting Sheikh Isa Qassim in relation to one of Shia Muslims’ religious duties. Sheikh Isa Qassim had his citizenship arbitrarily revoked in June 2016.’
See this and other updates at ADHRB Newsletter 184.

Meeting in LA: Threatening Letters Sent to Mosques

Kuwait opposition clinch strong showing in first election after years of boycott

See also Arab Gulf States Institute

Majlis for Imam Husayn

Thursday, December 1st
7:00pm
Murray Dodge Hall, Princeton University

Majlis Speaker
Sheikh Faiyaz Jaffer, Associate Shia Muslim Chaplain at New York University

Poetry/Nauha reciters
Arif Kazmi (Urdu)
Zaigham Ahsan Naqvi (Urdu)
Dr. Hussein Mhanna (Arabic)

Iraq: Dozens killed in petrol station suicide attack

See also Washington Post, BBC and The New York Times.