Shii News – HRW World Report: Bahrain Repression

Bahrain: Unabated Repression

(Beirut) – Bahrain cracked down on peaceful dissent during 2018, virtually eliminating all opposition, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2019 . No independent media were allowed to operate in the country in 2018, and ahead of parliamentary elections in November, parliament banned members of dissolved opposition parties from being able to run .

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