Sondoss Al Asaad
Lebanese journalist
Bahrain’s Chambers of Death and Henderson’s Pervasive Culture of Torture
An archipelago of 33 islands, Bahrain has cast off a well-deserved reputation as a state that routinely tortured political dissents.
A new cabinet in Bahrain: why now?
Serious political reform can only be achieved by maintaining political partnership, separation of powers, and independent elections that represent fair electoral circles.
Once again the US embassy in Manama flouts the Bahrainis’ cultural idiosyncrasies
It is nothing but a tribal regime that rules Bahrain unilaterally with an iron fist, gives no importance to the people’s opinion and axioms.
Bahrain’s 2022 elections: Sham elections that exclude the people!
Under democratic regimes, elections are expected to be an opportunity to ease political tension, hitherto what is expected that the upcoming elections will take place in the most restrictive environment in years.
Bahrain’s overcrowding, unhygienic detention facilities: Petri dishes for Tuberculosis
According to a study by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, issued in April 2020, 74 Bahraini political detainees have died inside prisons since 2011.
Save Sadeq and Jaafar: Riyadh must Quash their politically-motivated death sentences
The Saudi regime’s ruling against those two torture survivors violates the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment as well as the international covenant on civil and political rights.
After a 6-year enforced ban, Bahrain’s Shiites congregate for Friday central prayers
The pulpit of Bahrain’s oppressed and deprived people, for decades, used to firmly appeal for stolen rights, reforms, rapprochement, and reconciliation.
What if Sheikh Ali Salman was free on this year’s Quds Day and was allowed to demonstrate!
For years, the commemoration of International Al-Quds Day has drawn the attention of large sectors in Bahrain, where demonstrators took part in peaceful rallies which were often bloodily repressed.
The grim consequences of Bahrain’s media blackout
The official media often ignore any news or reports of the ongoing demonstrations that have not subsided and deal with the events taking place in the country as terrorist and sabotage acts.