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Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Kingdom of Bahrain: a continuous march of democratic
and developmental achievements
Chapter Two: The series of the sabotage plan the series of plans to sabotage
OR the series of sabotage plans
Chapter Three: Economic losses resulting from the violence and
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Chapter Four: Monitored violations
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Chapter Eight: Field and political developments of the crisis
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True democracy whichever way it is represented; direct or indirect ensures the necessary
safeguards to guarantee the human rights of individuals and their freedom.
Only people who are hungry for freedom would demand a democratic system that would
bring them a decent life and give them a say in the ruling of their country.
Thoush some Arab nations calls for democracy though civil revolution have been adopted
by all spectrums of those nations including their political and social components, and
therefore the result was a united will of the people; to say that they had been deprived
of democracy in their country and therefore demanded it together through a revolution,
Bahrain is a different case in both those aspects: The nation is not unified in their demands,
and there is no deprivation from democracy.
This is different than a ruler who announced since taking the reins of government that the
primary pillar of his rule is based on the democratization and expansion of powers of the
people through a new parliament life for a modern state. He began his political life with
the announcement of the National Action Charter developed by the members of the High
National Committee of the Charter to prepare for the in 23/12/2000 referendum, which
reveived in the polls in 14/2/2000 the great national consensus of 98.4 percent. Of the
population The Charters provisions were on the basis of the regime, its objectives and
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duties to maintain the country, its independence, dignity and glory, and would work to
preserve national unity as it is the only way for the cohesion and stability of the state. It
also ensured rights and freedoms, so this Charter which was approved in a referendum by
the citizens is a constitutional document and a constitutional declaration of a new stage
for the Kingdom.
The 1973 Constitution was amended according to the provisions contained in the Charter
and those amendments were declared in 2002. Since then the constitutional Kingdom has
evolved to become a state of civil institutions and law. As a result, all prisoners of political
opinion were released and the establishment of the Council of Deputies, which consists
of a board of elected deputies and a Shura Council, was announced. In addition, several
laws and regulations were issued after the declaration of constitutional amendments to the
Constitution of 1973 in 2002. A number of laws were issued that emphasize democratic
application of the modern constitutional state, such as: the law on political rights; the law
of the Shura Council and Chamber of Deputies; the law of political associations (political
parties); the creation of the Office of Financial Supervision and the Office of Administrative
Control; the establishment of the Womens Council; the issuance of municipal laws and the
law of electing members of municipal councils; civil laws and the law of unions; the money
laundering law and the law on human trafficking. In addition, the Constitutional Court was
established, which gives the right for all segments of society to state the unconstitutionality
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of laws. The Institute of Political Development and the Economic Development Board were
established and the opening of freedoms for all sects of the people. This was especially true
for the Shia community, which has received the freedom to practice its religion, through
for example the Hussaini Maatams and marching in Ashura on the anniversary of Imam
Hussain, and all their religious events. In fact, HM made a donation to from his own money
to enable the practice of Shii rituals.The Shiia also enjoy effective political participation
as they are represented by 18 deputies in the Chamber of Deputies, which consists of 40
deputies as well as ministerial and advisory council appointments.
The Bahraini people are not from one spectrum, but a group of spectrums shared by two
main sects; the Sunni and the Jaafari Imami sect that is based in political theory on the
ruling of Alfaqeeh, which connects to the Absent Imam (p) (P) to receive the teachings
and then the state becomes a religious state, controlled by the right of God until the Absent
Imam arrives.
The democratic life of any society cannot be judged on its constitutional text without the
passing of a period of time that extends for tens of years, as during that time complementary
constitutional norms will be created, interpreted or modified.
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Under these circumstances, the mind cannot comprehend a turn against these democratic
developments under the name of the desire for constitutional amendments nor comprehend
a change of the system of government that Did not betray the constitutional destiny of the
nation, rather HM The Kings aim was to reach a constitutional monarchy in a time frame
to suit the particular circumstance of the Kingdom of Bahrain and of the region as a whole.
The coming out of a few individuals against the system, a few who do not represent the
sectors of society, cannot be said to be a popular revolution. The definition of a revolution
legally is the agreement of the national administration with all aspects of society-socially,
politically, or sectarian terms, the aim of which is to change the political regime and create
legitimate revolutionaries on whose hands the fate of the nation is laid anew.
We cannot say that intolerance and the imposition of religious doctrine and its views on
the multi-ethnic society is a revolution, and does not prepare the civil state to become a
religious state. The Islamic religion does not call for religious, secratrion, regional or
national intolerance, As laid by the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)
What the Kingdom of Bahrain witnessed since 14/2/2011 to this day can only be described
as a sectarian movement that was designed to steal the country from its citizens to form a
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The incidents that happened in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which targeted security the
nations security since February 14, 2011, were not in the current context of the protest
movements witnessed by countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The incidents in
Bahrain have unique characteristics with roots in the 1979 outbreak of the revolution in
Iran, which split the Shia in Bahrain into two movements: one that is conservative and
calls for reforms, and another that is revolutionary and embraces violence to overthrow
the system and replace it with a Republican, Islamic system such as that in Iran. On the
23rd of February in 1979, thousands of Shia protested in support of the revolution in Iran
and its leader Khomeini, and five senior Shia religious men came forward with a petition
to the Prime Minister of Bahrain that included several demands, among which was the
application of the Islamic regime in Bahrain, the separation of men and women in schools
and hospitals, and the imposition of Islamic dress on women. A number of Shia religious
men, such as Hadi Almudarrisi, played a key role in uniting and and organizing Shia groups
in Bahrian who follow the revolution in Iran into a group called the Islamic Front for the
Liberation of Bahrain, which wants to establish the Islamic Republic in Bahrain through
violence and terrorism.
The front received financial and media support from the Republic in Iran and it was
noticeably active in the media through its office in Tehran. It later changed its approach
from protest to military training and smuggling weapons into Bahrain.
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The violence and vandalism movements, with their strong connections outside the country,
adopted the idea of overthrowing the regime in Bahrain and tried to take advantage of the
revolutions and protests that erupted in other Arab countries to implement its plan.
Its worth mentioning that the founders of the movement of violence and chaos that began
on the 14th of February were sure of its similarity with the Tunisian and Egyptian scenarios.
However, the sequence of events in Bahrain was entirely different from what happened
in Tunisia and Egypt, as the demonstrations here carried out by a few outlaws were not
peaceful and were faced with clear rejection by the vast majority of the community,
which confused those who started them. Then they filmed a number of tragic plays using
fabricated scenes and blood bags, and even pictures of victims in other countries, as if they
were scenes from Bahrain.
What the Kingdom of Bahrain has witnessed since the day of 14/2/2011 is a sectarian,
subversive movement designed to undermine the gains and violate the human rights of a
large segment of the society, stealing the country from its citizens and forming a religious
state that follows a neighboring sectarian and religious system.
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Chapter One:
Kingdom of Bahrain: a continuous
march of democratic and
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Since the Kingdom of Bahrain gained independence in 1971, efforts have continued toward
modernization, development and evolution. After King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa took
the reins of power on the 6/3/1999, the Kingdom began to witness noticeable changes
at all levels; political, economic, social and others. A national project of His Majesty the
King Hamad was launched in February 2001, which was supported by the populace and
created a new reality in the Bahraini society. The project was distinguished by values and
institutions, and established and applied laws, which ensured the countrys progress and
development politically, economically, socially and culturally. That has also ensured the
countrys stability and safety, and enhanced the societys collaboration and cohesion, as
explained in the following subsections:
One - Democratic Developments
Two - Elections
Three - Human Rights and Judiciary Authority
Four - The Media and Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Five The Civil Society
Six - Empowerment of Women
Seven - Economic Development
Eight - Human Development
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One - Democratic Developments:
1. Forming a committee, consisting of 46 members of all spectrums of the Bahraini
society, to prepare the National Action Charter, which has been approved by the
Bahraini people in a referendum in February 2001 by 98.4 percent. The important
items stated the conversion of Bahrain to a constitutional monarchy following the
principle of the separation of powers, safeguard of freedoms and rights, and applying
the system of two chambers in the parliament.
2. On 24/2/2002 the King approved all the amendments approved by the National
Charter under which the amended Constitution was issued.
3. Based on the above, on the basis of the regulations contained in Decree Law No.
14 of 2002, on the exercise of political rights, and Decree Law No. 15 of 2002,
on the Shura Council and House of Deputies, the Kingdom had witnessed three
elections at the municipal and parliamentary levels. Specifically, the Chamber of
Deputies in years 2002, 2006 and 2010, with the participation of all spectrums of the
Bahraini people. This was especially true in the last two rounds, which witnessed
the participation of the political societies that boycotted the first round.
4. The establishment of institutions that support democratic action, including the
Institute of Political Development, to play a part in spreading political awareness
among citizens.
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5. In another step on the path of democratic development in 2005, the issuance of Law
No. 26, which authorized the establishment of political societies, joining them and
organizing their work, provided a legal and legitimate framework through which
these societies operate. This is a unique phenomenon that makes Bahrain stand out
among the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), as there are currently 18
societies that are able to organize public events and protest rallies, participate in
elections, issue bulletins, meet with officials, and participate in activities abroad,
making them similar to political parties. In addition, three of those societies have
parliamentary representation: Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, which has 18
seats in the Chamber of Deputies elected in 2010 (before their withdrawal from the
Parliament in February 2011); the Association of Authenticity, which has three
seats; and the Islamic platform, which has two seats.
6. The cooperation between the legislative and executive branches has had positive
effects on the role of the Bahraini Parliament in the legislative field. It has helped efforts
to update the system of legislation in the Kingdom, to comply with the requirements
of social and political development, and helped keep pace with the provisions of
international agreements and treaties, supporting the process of cooperation and
integration among the GCC countries especially in the standardization of regulations
and applicable laws.
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DEVELOPMENTS
Those elections have proven the awareness of Bahraini citizens, their desire to actively
participate in the management of society and choose representatives to lead the national
action and represent them in the elected parliament. This appeared quite evident in the
remarkable turnout of citizens to the polls in these elections, which took place in a climate
of transparency and integrity confirmed by local and international organizations.
A - 2002 elections:
On 24/10/2002, citizens of Bahrain participated in the first parliamentary elections in the
country, after nearly a quarter of a century, with 177 competing candidates including
eight women to fill the 40 seats of the House. Three candidates won by acclamation. The
second round was on the 31st of October. The process at polling stations went safely and
easily as a result of the procedures followed by the Organizational Executive Committee
that oversaw the elections. No complaints were raised to the National Committee about the
voting process. In addition, legal and judicial oversight was given to the Polls and Election
Security Committee under the chairmanship of the Minister of Justice, and the candidates
were given the right to choose agents to be present in the sub-committee to monitor the
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voting process and verify the integrity of the electoral process.
The final election resulted in the formation of a balanced parliament comprised of all
spectrums of society: Islamic, political, liberal and left-wing, as well as independent
individuals and a group of businessmen and economists.
The final percentage of participants in the first round of elections was 53.48 percent, as
the number of voters was 130,200 of a total 242,449 individuals who had the right to vote,
while the percentage of public participation in the second round was 43 percent.
The management of the electoral process was characterized by a high degree of transparency
and integrity. Two civil associations were given the right to supervise the polling stations
to ensure proper procedures in the voting process and the counting of votes: the Bahraini
Association for Human Rights and The Transparency Society.
The report of the National Committee for the control of the parliamentary, issued on
10/11/2002, stated that the candidates had full freedom in presenting their programs to their
constituents through lawful means, and there was no official intervention to prevent any of
the candidates from communicating with voters and delivering their programs.
B - 2006 elections:
The elections of 2006 were conducted with the same success that marked the 2002 elections.
There was a large amount of political activity in Bahrain, particularly during the period
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that preceded the voting process as some political forces and opposition associations that
did not participate in the first round decided to participate in this election. They did so
because they were certain of the usefulness of participation and the importance of having
a presence in parliament.
During the electoral process, the headquarters of candidates were spread across different
areas of Bahrain, and the voters expressed their interest and enthusiasm by visiting the
election headquarters to choose candidates based on their election programs. The campaign
continued for a full month, during which the country provided a full opportunity for
candidates to present their election programs freely and discuss all internal and external
issues without restrictions, except those issues affecting the higher interest of the nation
and national unity.
To ensure the equal treatment of all candidates in the media, the radio and television stations
did not broadcast any advertisement of any campaign.
The total number of eligible voters in the elections of 2006 was 295,686. The voting
process at the polling centers was done in a democratic atmosphere with judicial oversight
and received the full attention of the Arab media and international observers.
The High Commission/higher elections committee was keen to provide all necessary
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facilities, so the voters were able to perform their constitutional right to elect their candidates
for the Chamber of Deputies without interference from any party whatsoever.
The percent of all eligible voters who voted was 72 percent, which was an increase of about
18 percent compared to the elections that took place in 2002.
The opposition won a large number of seats in the parliamentary election: 17 out of 40
seats in the House of Representatives, which formed the largest bloc in the parliament of
Bahrain and is a clear indication of the integrity of the electoral process.
The parliamentary elections in 2006 witnessed a large turnout of Bahraini women,
candidates and voters, which complements their active participation in 2002. While the
candidates failed to win any seat in the first election in 2002, Latifa Al-Qoud, who competed
strongly in the first election and reached the second round, recorded a major achievement
for Bahraini women by winning in 2006. She was the first Bahraini and Gulf woman to get
to the parliament.
C - Elections of 2010:
The elections that were held on the 23rd of October in 2010 are considered an important
point in the history of the Kingdom of Bahrain, where the various spectrums of society
competed in an authentic democratic experience to get to the Chamber of Deputies.
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The elections were held in a transparent and fair atmosphere, and the participation rate was
67.7 percent, which is a great indication of the transparency of the elections and voters
confidence that their voices would be heard.
The elections resulted in the victory of all candidates of Al Wefaq Society opposition,
who won 18 seats out of 40. There were 17 independent representatives, which further
confirmed the integrity of the electoral process and the non-interference of the countrys
institutions.
Modern technology, most importantly the Internet, contributed to making the elections
smooth, organized and efficient. The Internet was used in monitoring the voting process
to ensure its transparency and integrity. There were laptops linked to special servers inside
the voting centers to examine the magnetic ID cards of the voters. This was done to check
whether they had already voted in another place or not, thus preventing people from voting
multiple times.
The elections received wide praise in Bahrain and abroad by organizations as well as Arab
and foreign media invited to cover this democratic event. They followed and monitored
its proceedings and results closely. The National Foundation for Human Rights, which
was one of the observers of the elections, emphasized in a report that these elections were
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transparent and highly satisfactory, taking into account international standards for the safety
of the elections.
The Secretary General of the Al Wefaq Society, Sheikh Ali Salman, stressed the integrity
of the elections in a congratulatory telegram that he sent to the Prime Minister on the
success of the elections. Sheikh Ali Salman expressed his pride in the peoples extensive
participation, which embodied the spirit of democracy and transparency, and emphasized
national unity under the reform project that laid down the rules of His Majesty the King.
On the external front, the human rights organizations and the media that covered this election
praised its fairness and integrity. Among these organizations was the Council of Gulf
International Relations (COGIR), which confirmed the integrity of the electoral process,
transparency and success of Bahrainis in the administration, practice and monitoring of the
elections free from any pressure and external interference.
In addition, Mr. Abdul Rahman bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Secretary General of the Cooperation
Council for Gulf Arab States, praised the elections and described them to be a democratic
experiment that took place in an atmosphere of transparency and high credibility with wide
participation from all spectrums of the Bahraini people.
In the same context, the United States of America, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
praised the atmosphere of transparency and fairness that prevailed in the parliamentary
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elections and the results that expressed the will of the voters.
The three parliamentary elections were turning points in Bahraini society because they
embodied the political reform initiated by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and brought
back the exercise of parliamentary life after an absence of nearly a quarter of a century
(since 1975).
Third - Human Rights and the Judiciary Authority: THIS IS NUMBER 2
IN THE ARABIC VERSION
A - Human Rights:
Bahrain has become a model to emulate in the promotion of human rights. This is confirmed
by several indicators, notably:
1. The establishment of the Commission on Human Rights in the Shura Council in
October 1999, and the abolition of the State Security Law and the State Security
Court on February 18, 2001.
2. The release of all political prisoners and allowing exiles to return from abroad
without restrictions or conditions, and amnesty of the accused and convicted of
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3. Joining Bahrain to all international agreements and conventions on human rights and
fundamental freedoms.
4. The positive recognition of the Kingdoms efforts in the field of human rights by
many international human rights organizations.
5. The development of legal and constitutional frameworks that ensure the promotion
and protection of human rights. This includes the issuance of several decrees and
laws that help achieve this goal including political rights; the establishment of trade
unions; organization of the press, printing and publishing; the establishment of political
associations; social security; public meetings and marches; care, rehabilitationand
employment of the disabled; and insurance against unemployment?? Unemployment
benefits; and combating human trafficking.
6. The establishment of numerous public and private institutions that promote and
protect human rights.,( as well as to clarify any false allegations being said regarding
those rights, by some international human rights organizations and others.) I advice
to definitely not include this we sound very bad. These organizations include the
Commission on Human Rights at the Shura Council, the Department of Human
Rights and Complaints in the Ministry of Interior, the National Foundation for
Human Rights, the Management of Grievance and Complaints at the Royal Court,
and the Supreme Council for Women.
7. The establishment of many non-government organizations (NGOs) concerned
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with human rights, such as the Bahraini Society for Human Rights (2001), the
Bahrain Transparency Society (2001), the Bahrain Society for Public Freedoms and
Democracy (2002), the Society of Children Rights (2004), the Migrant Workers
Protection Society (2005), the Bahrain Society Against Family Violence (2005), the
Bahrain Association of Jurists (2005), and the Bahrain Society for Human Rights
Watch (2006). .
In this optimistic climate of proper legislation, 1,154 licensed marches and peaceful
demonstrations were organized since the abolition of the State Security Act in 2001 through
September 2010. In addition, there have been other marches and rallies, the establishment
of five new daily newspapers, six magazines and two e-newspapers. The number of trade
unions in Bahrain increased to 76 through September 2010, an indication of the interest in
providing a safe and stable working environment for employees in all industries, especially
in light of the issuing of a number of laws that have strengthened a citizens political,
economic and social freedom. This includes Law No. 31 of 2005 which provides for social
insurance to Bahrainis working abroad and the like, Law No.34of 2005 which established
the alimony fund, and Law No. 18 of 2006 which covered social security, and Law No. 28
of 2006 With respect to the Future Generation Reserve.
These developments resulted in the selection of a representative from the Kingdom of
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Bahrain to serve as the vice president of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in
2004. The Kingdom then won membership to the Human Rights Council in May 2006 as
well as from 2008 to 2011, recognition for the remarkable developments of the protection
and promotion of human rights and for providing the guarantees necessary both in terms
of legislation and practice.
B - The Judiciary Authority:
The country has taken numerous measures to ensure the independence of its judiciary
system, including:
TheestablishmentoftheSupremeJudicialCouncilin2001.
TheestablishmentofaConstitutionalCourttocontroltheconstitutionalityoflaws
and parliamentary legislation.
AdoptionoftheJudicialAuthorityLawof2002,whichwasamendedin2006.
The development of the religious judiciary, especially after the adoption of the
Personal Status Law for the Sunni community, (despite the countrys direction to
find a law for both sects, it was unable to legislate for the Shia sect for reasons
described as due to the nature of the Shii sect, were unable to legislate for all)
The establishment of public prosecution in 2003 following the investigation and
criminal prosecution conducted by the Public Prosecution Department of the Ministry
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of Interior.
Women in leadership positions within the justice sector, in both the judiciary and
prosecution. 18 female judges have been appointed in addition to 17 more judges to
be appointed to various courts in 2011, including many women.
The establishment of the Office of Financial Supervision and Administration by
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Four - The Media and Freedom of Opinion and Expression:
The country has witnessed important achievements with respect to freedom of opinion and
expression, most importantly:
1. The issuing of licenses for new newpapers in addition to the existing Akhbar Al
Khaleej, Gulf Daily News, Al Ayam and Bahrain Tribune. There are 10 newspapers
reflecting the different trends and orientations including Al Wasat, Al Meethaq, Al
Watan, Al Waqt (before it was suspended), and Al Bilad, in addition to five weekly
newspapers, Al Tijariya, Gulf Weekly, Al Ahd, Al Nabaa and Aswaq.
2. Devotion to freedom of expression through more than 3,500 seminars, lectures,
workshops and discussion groups, organized by civil and professional institutions
and organizations from February 2001 through December 2010. In addition more
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in the last three years.
3. The establishment of the Bahraini Journalists Association in 2000, as a regulatory
entity for the defense of the rights of workers in journalism and development of
journalism.
4. The establishment of the Gulf Press Union in Manama in 2005, as an entity that
includes all newspapers and their employees to share experiences, development and
updates.
5. Creation of The Club for Foreign Correspondents in 2005 to communicate with the
respective authorities in the Kingdom, which currently comprises of 40 Arab and
foreign correspondents.
6. The opening of an office for the International Federation of Journalists in 2009.
7. The increase in the number of Bahraini websites, which has reached 1,045 in total.
Five - Civil Society:
The importance of civil society is greatly appreciated and attended to in the country, as
evidenced by a advanced rise of civil society through national movement, led by NGOs
that reached 526 in number by the end of 2010, in accordance with the constitutional and
legal controls governing their work.
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The country was devoted to providing the appropriate legal environment to grow and
enhance civil society organizations through the issuance of many regulations and laws
governing their work including the Trade Union Law No.33) of 2002, the Decree Law
No.47) of 2002 on the regulation of the press, printing and publishing, the Political
Associations Law of 2005, the ratification by the King of Law No.73) of 2006 amending
some provisions of labor law in the civil sector, the adoption of the legislative committee
of the Chamber of Deputies in 2010, an amendment to the provisions of Law No.26) of
2005 on political associations. In addition, the Ministry of Social Development managed
to finish their project to draft a new law intended to replace the existing law from 1989.
The country also worked to promote community work through its commitment to the
independence of civil society institutions and non-interference in their affairs, the opening
of The National Center for NGO Support in 2006, which was the first of its kind in the
GCC and the region, and financial and logistical support to the civil organizations.
The civil society institutions play a major role in the development of the awareness of the
Bahraini society through the organization of conferences, seminars and training courses
and the distribution of scientific publications as well as the interest in various internal
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The attention of the civil society institutions extends abroad with the organization of and
participation in seminars, meetings conferences and seminars.
The result of this attention and support has been the increase in the number of civil society
from 275 civil associations in 2001 to 527 in 2010. In addition, there has been a shift in
how these civil society organizations have developed. In recent years, more associations
defending human rights and consumer protection have been formed, in addition to
professional associations, unions and associations with quality interests, such as the 18
political associations .
Six - The Empowerment of Women:
Women had a large share of attention and care to strengthen them economically, politically
and socially with their role and position in society. Women received the right to vote and
be nominated in the 2002 constitution. Women also took several vital positions including
ministerial, parliamentary, diplomatic and economic, most notably, Sheikha Haya Rashed
Al Khalifa, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
In addition, participation of women increased in economic development and the labor
market to about 35 percent of the national labor in the public and private sectors in 2009,
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with the expansion of the base of businesswomen until the current state wherewomen have
acquired 38.9 percent of the number of commercial registration (CR) in the Kingdom in
Moreover, their standard of living has been increased through the launch of the Kingdoms
National Plan for the Development of Productive Families adopted in August 2005.
In recognition of women, Dec. 1 has been designated as Bahraini Womans Day. In order
to expand womens participation in the communitys development, womens associations
increased; 19 associations were established by 2009, including the Womens Union.
Seven - Economic Development:
The Kingdom of Bahrain - despite its small size, population and resources - has been able
to achieve reasonable economic development, as shown by the following:
1. An overall growth rate in the last 10 years of 64.5 percent with an annual average
increase of 6.3 percent. The per capita GDP increased to BD7442 per year in 2008,
while it was BD4008 in 1999, an increase of 85 percent.
2. The confidence of global institutional investors; the net international investment
increased to BD6,040 million in 2009 compared to BD3,823 million in 2006;
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the foreign direct investment increased to BD5639 million in 2009 compared to
BD4,207.7 million in 2006.
3. The increase of the financial services sectors share (406 institutions) in the
contribution to the GDP by 27.6 percent, which confirms the success of the economic
policy in the development of sources of income.
4. The number of investment funds registered in the Central Bank of Bahrain and
available in the market reached 2,743 funds in 2010, compared to 2,374 in 2007 and
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5. The industrial sectors GDP increased by 80 percent from 2003 to 2008.
6. The value of exports increased from BD 2,329.1 million in 2000 to BD 4464.5
million in 2009.
The Kingdom has received advanced rankings in international economic indicators and
reports; in February 2005 Bahrain ranked first among Arab countries and 31st worldwide on
the list of developing countries in regards to economic development, and ranked second in
the list of Middle East and North African countries according to the Development Indicator
issued by the financial research foundation, Money Mattress Institute. It also received third
place in 2005 among the Arabian region in the Economic Competitiveness Report of the
Davos Economic Forum.
The Kingdom ranked first in the Arabian region in the Globalization Index published by
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the Swiss Cove Institute in 2006, and seventh in the Arabian region and 43rd globally,
according to the Global Competitiveness Report for 2007 and 2008. It was second in
the Arabian region and 36th globally, according to the Logistics Management Services
Performance Index of the World Bank for 2007, and it is was first in the Gulf and second in
the Arabian region as the most successful country in the region in democratic and economic
transformation according to the German Bertelsmann Foundation in March 2008. The
Kingdom ranked third among the Gulf and Arab countries in terms of business environment
attractiveness for investors and foreign capital in 2008, according to the report issued by
the EPA Agency for studies and statistics. It is also the headquarters of the Anti Money
Laundering Group in the Middle East and North Africa MENA FATF since 2004, and the
headquarters of the incubators network in the MENA region, with more than 96 countries
implementing the Bahraini example in the development of small and medium industries
through the World Bank. It also ranked the first on the Arab and regional levels in the Index
of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Institute of America during 1995 through
2008 and the 19th globally in 2008.
In the report Doing Business 2010, issued by the World Bank, Bahrain received an advanced
ranking, 20th among 183 countries globally and second in the Middle East and North
Africa after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Eight- Human Development:
It is impossible to talk about sustainable development and real economic growth without
addressing the effective investment in the human element. Development will not be realized
with natural and financial resources and alone, but primarily with human resources, as the
peopleare the real wealth of the country and community.
Many international and regional organizations have praised the achievements of the
Kingdom of Bahrain in human development. The Kingdom has led all Arab countries on
the UNDP Human Development Report eight times since 1990.
In the Human Development Report for 2007 / 2008, Bahrain ranked 4th among Arab
countries and 41st globally among 177 countries included in the report, and in the Human
Development Report of 2009 issued by the United Nations Development Program Centre,
Bahrain came in 39th globally, among the countries which are said to have high human
development. . It retained its position amid advanced industrial countries with high human
development, achieving significant ongoing progress in the well-being, humanity and
economic development of its citizens.
Overall, the value of the Human Development Index over the past decade has increased
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from 0.820 in 2000 to 0.895 in 2009 (where values close to 1 reflect advanced levels of
human development).
This was the result of the efforts made by the country in the following areas:
1 - Social Services:

A - Education:
The Kingdom of Bahrain is currently experiencing a renaissance in modern education:
1. Increased financial allocation to about BD236 million in the 2010 budget compared
to BD205 million in 2007 and about BD87 million in 2000, which is an increase of
300 percent during the period (2000-2010).
2. Quantitative and qualitative growth in building new schools and providing developed
teaching materials through a package of projects and programs for teachers, students,
the curriculum and the school, resulting in a rate of absorption of primary education
material that reached 100 percent, compared to 85 percent in 1999, and an increase
in the number of university students from 12.812 students in 2000 to 30,000 in
2009, and an increase in educational scholarships of 15 percent annually to Arab and
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3. Working on Linking education output to the need of the labor market, through attention
to industrial education ; out of belief of its importance in the effective participation
in the development prospects of the Kingdom by providing the labor market with its
needs of trained technical personnel in various technical professions. For this reason
the Shaikh Khalifa Institute of Technology was opened, representing a qualitative
shift in the training of teachers of industrial education and social service education
at the local level, and regional the levels in cooperation with UNESCO, and also
through the unification of the academic paths to secondary education, which aims
to produce increased students achievement in mathematics, science and English to
provide better opportunities for them to engage in the labor market.
4. Improving teachers and educators through several steps including the application of
the the new faculty of teachers
5. Efforts to eliminate illiteracy through a program established in the late 1930s. The
Kingdom has seen a decline in the illiteracy rate to less than 2.4 percent according
to last census in 2001.
That has resulted in the positive international reputation of the Kingdom and membership to
the executive board of UNESCO in 2003. The Kingdom ranking first among Arab countries
for the second year in a row in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Education for
All in 2008, according to the report issued by UNESCO.
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The Kingdom has also received the approval of the general conference of UNESCO
and with the consensus of its members on a project to establish a Regional Centre for
Information and Communication Technology in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
B - Health:
IncreaseinthebudgetoftheMinistryofHealthtoaboutBD223millionin2010,
versus BD126 million in 2005 and BD76 million in 2000; Bahrain ranks 41st globally
in terms of per capita annual budget of the Ministry of Health.
Increase in the number of health facilities to 52 compared to 38 in 2004, and 34
in 2000, including 27 health centers, 11 governmental hospitals and 14 private
hospitals.
Theaveragelifeexpectancyincreasedto74.8yearsfrom2005to2010versus70.4
from 1985 to 1990,;death rates decreased to about 2.2 per thousand of the population,
compared to 3.3 in 1995, which was one of the reasons why the Kingdom received
the Canadian authentication Certificate in 2010, to become the first Arab country to
receive this certificate.
2 - Social Welfare:
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including the Ministry of Social Development, the Social Security Fund and the
Public Commission for Social Insurance.
The International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and The
Protection of the Disabled established the National Strategy for the Care of the
Disabled and increased the budget for programs for the handicapped within the 2010
budget to BD18 million up from BD14.9 million in 2008.
Increased care for the elderly through the National Strategy for the Elderly, the
establishment of the National Committee for the Elderly and the adoption of the
Law of the Elderly.
ThefightagainstpovertythroughactivationoftheProductiveFamiliesProject,the
establishment of the Family Bank (the first of its kind in the Gulf) and the development
of high cost of living allowance in 2008.
3 - Employment and Training:
TheLaborMarketRegulatoryAuthoritywasestablishedin2006tofindsolutions
in order to provide employment opportunities for citizens. It does so through the
development of a national plan for the labor market that includes the overall strategy
and policy on employment of national and foreign manpower, and through ensuring
effective and humane management of the affairs of expatriate workers, and through
the effective application of the law to serve the entire community.
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ThiswasinadditiontolaunchoftheNationalProjectforEmploymentinJanuary
2006 and the issuance of the Unemployment Insurance Act in November 2006, under
which the Ministry of Work began the disbursement of unemployment benefits,
which included more than 9,000 people, and in addition to the cancellation of the
expatriate sponsorship system.
These policies have led to:
* A reduction in the unemployment rate from 15 percent in 1999 to less than 4
percent in 2010, in addition to the training of more than 5,000 citizens.
* An increase in wages for more than 17,000 citizens in the private sector, employing
more than 2,700 out of 4,500 university graduates , which reduced the number of
people entitled to unemployment benefits from 8,567 per month in 2007 to 2,027
in 2009.
4 - Infrastructure and Urban Development:
A - Housing:
Increased funding for the infrastructure sector and social services; it was BD500
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was for housing in 2010, compared to $40 million in 1999.
Increase in residential units from 105,000 units in 1999 to about 220,000 units in
2009, as well as the development of the strategic plan of the Ministry of Housing to
the year 2014, which includes about BD900 million in investments BD900 million
and includes the construction of 21,000 units.
A housing allowance for more than 28,000 people, which equals BD100 million,
BD34 million in 2010 alone.
B - Infrastructure:
Completion of the replacement and maintenance of the water network and reduction in
leaks from the water distribution network from 35 percent to 17 percent from 1993 to
2007, as well as the implementation of several projects in water desalination including
the Al Hidd Station project for electricity and water, which produces 90 million gallons
a day and the construction of the first solar energy water desalination plant.
The production of electricity was doubled to about 2,750 Megawatts in 2010
compared to 1624 Megawatts in 2000, and the use of renewable energy.
Increase in the budget for the transportation sector from BD33 million in 1999 to
about BD72 million in 2010.
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Increasingthelengthsofroadsfrom2,614kilometersin1999to4,000kilometers
in 2010, the implementation of the first phase of the application of intelligent
transportation systems, the application of an integrated transport strategy and
implementing a plan of mass transit network in stages.
TheestablishmentoftheGeneralOrganizationofSeaPortsin2006.
TheestablishmentofKhalifaPorttoimprovethecapacityofBahraininthefieldof
maritime transport.
The number of fixed telephone lines increased to 204,000 subscribers in 2010
compared to 191,000 in 2004 and 171,000 in 2000, in addition to the increase of
mobile phone lines to 767,000 from 205,000 in 2000, and the number of internet
subscribers increased to 585,000, compared to 22,000 in 2000.
The achievements of the Kingdom of Bahrain, particularly in the last ten years, many
other countries could not achieve in half a century, though they have much more human
and financial resources than the Kingdom of Bahrain, which is currently experiencing
sophisticated and comprehensive development in all fields: political, economic, social and
others, thanks to the leaderships ambitious vision to build a modern state which enjoys a
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Those who planed to occupy the GCC roundabout as a base for violence and vandalism
across the country, had selected the site carefully, with precision and thoughtfulness. It was
a deliberate process to control and overthrow the regime, which was the slogan that had
been held high whether in the roundabout, marches and illegal protest that were organized.
And those who planned all this expected that there will be victims, which would fuel the
internal and international situations alike, with the use of the media, Al-Aalam and Al-Manar
TV channels, which were fully employed for the event, in addition to the occupation of
Salmaniya hospital that was a part of the plan.
The plan of sabotage and chaos was divided into stages where whenever one ends, the
next starts. After the occupation of the roundabout and the hospital and installation of
communication tools with satellite channels, whether in the hospital or the roundabout, the
next stage was the strike that started with schools, students and teachers in order to paralyze
this sector, followed by the Financial Harbor stage and then the expansion of the occupation
to the rest of the streets starting from King Faisal Street all the way to the mall in Manama,
and that was accompanied by the declaration of the so-called Week of Anger and then
narrowing down week which contained the illegal march of the Royal Court and the march
of the Coffins that were intended to cause more victims to fall in order to supply fuel to the
process of action required.
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The next phase after the creation of economic damage was the declaration of civil
disobedience in order to paralyze all economic sectors and thus a collapse of a the overall
economy, so it would force the system to accept the two-pronged demands that were set;
either fully overthrow the regime, or remove full power from the regime by putting a
new constitution that gives the Shia community full powers to rule the country similar
to the pattern of Iraq, keeping Sunnis a minority, after their extermination and the forced
migration out of Bahrain.
Since February 14, 2011, the Kingdom of Bahrain has gone through difficult security
incidents, violence and riots caused by a number of stray outlaws that have disrupted public
security and put civil peace in jeopardy, threatening the security and safety of citizens and
residents. This prompted the issuance of a royal decree on March 15, 2011, which declared
a State of National Safety for three months. This mandated the Commander in Chief of the
Bahrain Defense Force to take the necessary measures to maintain security and stability.
It was necessary to give the countrys authorities exceptional measures to ensure its
protection in those circumstances, as the safety of the country is above all.
The declaration is aimed at controlling situations in the country that threaten the publics
safety and disrupt security in the Kingdom. It is also aimed at preserving the rights and
freedoms of citizens, residents, speed up control of the status quo, and help maintain security
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and order and preserve the integrity of the Kingdom. Preserving security and clarity of the
soul provides a better national opportunity to meet and converse.
The country allowed gathering and protesting at the GCC roundabout to allow people greater
freedom of peaceful expression, in the hopes that people would express their thoughts and
concerns through proper, healthy and democratic practice that would drive the country
forward. The instigators misinterpreted this, and things turned from peaceful to disruptive.
And the events of abuses and violations were successive as follows:
Setting up tents at the roundabout and its surrounding area, slogans were raised,
explicit speeches contrary to the law were made, and the roundabout location was
adopted as the site for planning, sabotage and launching of marches and acts contrary
to the law.
Callingoutloudtooverthrowtheregime.
Expansion outside the roundabout to the Financial Harbor, Seef district and the
Diplomatic area, creating roadblocks in the roads.
Control of the Salmaniya hospital facilities and putting up tents at the emergency
entrance.
Organizingprotestmarchesaimedatdisruptingtheworkofministriesandgovernment
agencies.
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of traffic.
Aggressionactsbyattackingmigrantworkersandabusingthem,whichledtothe
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AttemptingtocontrolanumberofdistrictsinManama.
Callingtoastrikeandthedisruptionofeducation.
Attempts to attack a number of citizens and residents in various areas of the
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Runningoverthesecurityforcesbrutallybycarsanddeliberatelymurderingthem
more than once.
Some of the largest riots and violations occurred at Salmaniya hospital, a medical institution.
In a few days, this turned into the center of kidnapping, detention and torture, which was
seen on television. The hospital was also used as a leadership and planning center. A
number of people that were leaders and instigators of chaos were arrested inside. The
hospital remained under the control of outlaws for a month. During that time, the activities
there were not medical. Some hospital staff were detained, some patients received inhuman
and cruel treatment, and papers seized revealed that nurses and those responsible for the
admission of patients falsified medical records.
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In addition, some of the instigators of sedition and violence insisted to march to Riffa,
although the Ministry of Interior alerted that such an act would threaten security. It
would have been a serious and violent clash if the security forces that took preventive
measures and civilized restraints - hadnt been present as participants of both sides were in
thousands.
And the situation developed quickly when groups of protesters in front of the Financial
Harbor closed the entrance to the harbor - overlooking the main street and connected to
other streets - with plastic and rubber barriers, which led to the suspension of traffic on the
street and confusion in many other areas.

That led to the intervention of security forces to correct the situation in the Financial Harbor
and open the road and disperse legally. However, the outlaws insisted on continuing and
declined to respond to police orders; they resisted security forces, which necessitated the
intervention of additional security forces to disperse the protesters, where they then had to
gather in the roundabout. It has been earmarked that some parties sent invitations through
various media communications to gather in the roundabout.
The violations continued when outlaws rushed to the streets, carrying sticks and knives
and sharp instruments. They blocked roads and set up checkpoints for cars and people,
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intimidating people, and committing discriminatory attacks on some Asian residents by
beating. This led to the death of some in Manama.
All of these actions couldnt have been continued or accepted in any way and therefore
required intervention by the country. Thus, the King of the Kingdom of Bahrain declared a
State of National Safety according to Decree Law No. 18 for 2011, to preserve the security
and stability of the country without infringing on individual rights and freedoms.
An important question was raised about the validity of this decree. Reasons include:
1. The validity of declaring a special or emergency status in the countries according
to the international perspective:
Paragraph (1) of Article (4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, stated the following: when emergencies that threaten the life of the nation
and are officially announced, states allow parties in the covenant to take the narrowest
limits of required measures from their obligations under that covenant.
Thus, the primary is the permission for countries to declare exceptional states when
there is a security, economic or other kind of emergency threatening the safety of the
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country and its stability, affecting the lives of people. That state is to be announced
formally, and to take the security and legal measures within narrow limits.
The state of national safety was declared by the King of Bahrain under a royal decree
in accordance with the text of the constitution, (in the Royal Decree No. (18) for the
year 2011) in response to the chaos, sabotage and crimes that affected citizens and
the countrys security, stability which spread terror and panic in the hearts of the
citizens and residents, requiring the declaration of this state despite calls by some
political societies to declare a more stringent state, which is the state of martial
law. However, in line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Declaration, which requires declaring exceptional states within narrow limits, the
King of Bahrain announced the least dangerous exceptional state to the rights and
freedoms of individuals; the State of National Safety that aims to achieve the safety
of the nation and fix the dysfunctional conditions to attain stability without abusing
the rights and freedoms of individuals in an arbitrary way..
2. The validity of declaring the state of national safety according to the point of
view of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain:
Constitutionally and legally, it is not allowed to announce exceptional states in a
arbritrary or surprising manner. which is usually the case if there is no explanatory
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text of the announcement of exceptional states, in which case the ruler would be
declaring the exceptional state without legal justification or a constitutional and
legal based to refer to.
In fact, the Constitution of 1973 of the Kingdom of Bahrain, amended in 2002, states
in paragraph (b) of Article (36) on the right of the King of the Kingdom of Bahrain to
declare a state of national safety or martial law with a decree in accordance with the
conditions against destructive developments that threaten the security and stability
of Bahrains citizens and residents.
Therefore, the constitutional point of view is that a declaration of the state of national
safety is a right of the King of the Kingdom of Bahrain to control dysfunctional
situations that threaten the security and stability of Bahrain. Furthermore, it may be
extended after the approval of the majority of the members of the National Council
(elected Chamber of Deputies in addition to the appointed Shura Council).
Under Royal Decree No. 18 of 2011, all the crimes related to the state of national safety
were assigned to special courts called Courts of National Safety, which are formed
by a decision of His Excellency the Commander in Chief of the Bahrain Defense
Force. The courts are made up of civilian judges, members of the judiciary authority,
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and military judges-who are members of the military justice department-who meet
all the requirements of litigation in accordance with laws and procedures.
Based the Commander in Chief of the Bahrain Defense Forces decision to form a court of
national safety consisting of two civilian judges and one military judge, it is clear that this
court is unique and not a military court. Additionally, it is clear that the National Safety
Law describes these courts as unique as well, and did not assign the crimes specifil to the
state of national safety to military courts.
With the formation court members, as already mentioned, the role of the military judge
is limited to chairing the hearing, that is to be open to attendees from non-governmental
organizations and the media.
In addition, the beliefs of the civil judges are different from those of military judges; thus,
the presumption of innocence (the accused is innocent until proven guilty) that surrounds
the accused present before the courts of the National Safety is more effective.
In addition, the courts are on two levels: primary and appeal levels, and operate under the
Criminal Procedure Act of 2002; a natural law adopted in the ordinary courts in matters
of criminal procedure. One of the important guarantees enjoyed by the national courts is
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a guarantee of appeal, where the appeal gives a bigger chance for the defense to bring
forward evidence and arguments aimed at exonerating the accused. If the accused raised
an appeal, the Court of Appeal isnt allowed to increase his sentence. It may either reduce
his sentence or acquit him or her.
The Royal Decree No. 18 of 2011 assigned the procedures of investigation to the military
prosecution of Bahrain Defense Force and direct the proceedings relating to the state of
national safety, so as to follow the same procedures contained in the Criminal Procedure Law
No.46 for the year 2002, andfollowing the procedures in the Code of Criminal Procedure
Law is an important safeguard for the rights of the accused, as all provisions of the Code
of Criminal Procedure are derived from the Constitution and international standards for
the preservation of human rights. In addition, the military prosecution has commissioned a
group of general prosecution heads to preserve the rights of the accused.
From the above we conclude that the courts of the National Safety ensure the following
judicial guarantees:
1. The same reasoning and direct investigation procedures are followed, as well as
announcement methods and implementation of provisions as stipulated in the
Criminal Procedure Law No.46 for the year 2002 and other laws.
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2. Each accused has the right to an attorney, whether during the investigation procedures
or the trial.
3. Anyone sentenced has the right to appeal his sentence to a higher court in accordance
with the dates and procedures contained in the regular laws in force.
4. Investigation by the military prosecutor during the state of national safety, as
well as the proceedings, are subject to the approach adopted by the Kingdom of
Bahrain. As a country of institutions and law, all judicial guarantees are ensured by
the Constitution and the laws of the country and in accordance with international
standards in preserving human rights.
5. Public hearings for all defendants shall permit the presence of all who wish to attend,
including the institutions of the national community, those interested in the trial and
the media.
After declaring the state of national safety, there had to be an intervention by the Ministry
of the Interior after learning of the size and intentions of the foreign backed plot that was
to be implemented.
The evacuation of the roundabout from the instigators of strife and chaos was conducted
securely and professionally, although the location was booby-trapped with explosives
planted by those who were there. These explosives burned down some of their tents during
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their withdrawal toas a method to hide what was there.. The security forces and police
faced many dangerous difficulties with confidence until the roundabout was evacuated and
the roads were opened by different field engineering units of the Defense Force.
The responsible way of handling and controlling the evacuation during in the day, and
giving sufficient time for the people at the roundabout to leave quietly, was to minimize
the losses. This appeared on television where everyone saw hundreds of people walk away
calmly, even many of them go to their cars, which were close by, despite that two security
personnel were killed after being deliberately run over by cars in the same area. A third
martyr was killed in Sitra in the same way.
The insistence of some of the outlaws and causing chaos resulted in casualties, where four
of the security men died, seven innocent civilians from the citizens and residents died,
thirteen outlaws involved in the riots and violence died. In addition, 391 security men
were injured, 56 innocent citizens and residents were injured, and 4 security men were
kidnapped and tortured.
Foreign conspiracy to cause chaos in the Kingdom of Bahrain:
The external support for movements of violence, vandalism and lawlessness is not new,
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nor a result of the recent events. It started in the 1980s when the evil coup attempted to
seize power in 1981. This was backed by Iran according to confessions, and continued in
the case of the so-called Bahraini Hezbollah and the Iranian conspiracy in the events of
the 90s. It was repeated in the detection of the training of a military nature of vandalism
groups in the Hujaira in Syria in 2008. Recently, the issue of the organized network of
terrorist leaders and heads of subversive groups surfaced, which threatened to destabilize
the security and stability of Bahrain in 2010.
What happened recently is a completion of the series of the intervention schemes and
external connections. Attitudes and statements of Iranian officials, in addition to what
was declared by the Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah, was communicated via
satellite channels, which referenced Bahrains affairs and spread: sedition, rumors, lies
and calls to anarchy, what happened at the roundabout, the method of work followed,
experience and tactics that took place in Bahrain, the method of camping and placement
of barricades, occupying hospitals, trapping the television building, government offices
and vital installations, and the way of attacking the citizens houses, and the division of
roles and distribution of several cells, including the cell of field work, the funding cell, the
media cell and the cell of law/Jurists/human rights, are all things that reveal the link and the
method of training of Hezbollah.
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Attached are examples of terrorism acts and acts of intimidation by rebels in Bahrain to
destabilize security and stability in order to overthrow the regime and establish an Islamic
sectarian system based on extermination and forced migration of large segments of Bahraini
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Proclamation 7463 - Declaration of National
Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist
Attacks
September 14, 2001
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
A national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist
attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York,
and the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate
threat of further attacks on the United States.
Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me
as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
States, I hereby declare that the national emergency has
existed since September 11, 2001, and, pursuant to the
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), I intend
to utilize the following statutes: sections 123, 123a, 527,
2201(c), 12006, and 12302 of title 10, United States Code,
and sections 331, 359, and 367 of title 14, United States
Code.
This proclamation immediately shall be published in the
Federal Register or disseminated through the Emergency
Federal Register, and transmitted to the Congress.
This proclamation is not intended to create any right or
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In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two
thousand one, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and twenty- sixth.
George W. Bush
Message to the Congress on the Declaration
of National Emergency by Reason of Certain
Terrorist Attacks
September 14, 2001
To the Congress of the United States:
Pursuant to section 201 of the National Emergencies Act
(50 U.S.C. 1621), I hereby report that I have exercised my
authority to declare a national emergency by reason of
the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York,
New York, and the Pentagon, and the continuing and
immediate threat of further attacks on the United States. A
copy of my proclamation is attached.
Further, I have authorized, pursuant to section 12302 of
title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of Defense,
and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the
Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service within
the Department of the Navy, to order to active duty units
and individual members not assigned to units of the Ready
Reserve to perform such missions the Secretary of Defense
may determine necessary. The deployment of United States
forces to conduct operational missions in connection with
the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks necessitates
this action. A copy of my Executive Order implementing this
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Burning tents when evacuation of rotor Out loud advocate to drop regime
Closing the streets for force the people to civil disobedience
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Economic consequences resulting
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As a direct result of the instability of security and riot, economic losses were about 550
million Bahraini dinars ($1.4 billion USD), which is presented in detail as follows:
1 - The Tourism Sector:
Theoccupancyrateinhotelsdecreasedbymorethan90percent;wherecustomers
canceled reservations because of foreign embassies warnings, which tell citizens not
to come to Bahrain unless absolutely necessary.
The Formula 1 race was cancelled, which pumps $600 million annually into
Bahrains economy and attracts more than 40,000 people annually. This is a big
blow to the sector.
TheseasonofcruisestoBahrainwascancelled;notasinglelargetourismcruiseship
docked in Khalifa Ben Salman since the beginning of the incidents. They used to
arrive on an average of three times a week.
Loss of three events that were scheduled on the annual exhibitions calendar: the
MEED conference for businessmen, which was expected to attract more than 400
people from around the world; the Cisco conference, which is one of the most
important global conferences in the field of information technology, and the Spring
of Culture festival.
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2 - Cash Transactions Sector:
Reduction in rate of the dinar as a result of the pressure on the dollar-buying by
investors to liquiddate investments.
ThecreditratingagenciesStandard&PoorsandFitchreducedthesovereign
rating of Bahrain more than once until it arrived to (BBB); the lowest credit rating
of the preferred bonds, leading to:
o The increase of the cost of insuring sovereign debt of Bahrain for five years
to the highest level in 18 months, after a week of protests; as the exchanges
of liability Swaps increased against a guarantee by the Bahrain Cabinet for 5
years, 19 basis points to 300 points, according to the Foundation Market.
o Prices of Bahraini dollar-denominated bonds decreased, which mature in
2014 to its lowest level since March 2011.
o The total market value of the Bahrain Stock Exchange - the mirror of the
economy, as they say has decreased to around BD100 million in a single
day, which was March 20.
3 - Banking Sector (which currently contributes about 25 percent of GDP):
The external wholesale banking sector has been affected - which has assets greater than
the total domestic production in Bahrain by 10 times according to Standard Chartered
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foundation, and this sector has been influenced earlier by the repercussions of the global
financial crisis.
4 - Trade and Industry Sector:
The reluctance of people to buy (except for food and fuel) and discounted items at stores
(up to 70 percent) didnt revive purchases. This recession resulted in:
o 80 to 90 percent of industrial plants were paralyzed; as the shops sales stopped,
which directly reflected on the withdrawals from factories.
o A large number of small and medium enterprises stopped their operations;
where operating expenses in many institutions exceeded the returns, and small
and medium enterprises that represent approximately 90 percent of the number
of commercial and industrial establishments in Bahrain couldnt handle the
losses.
o Sales of Bahraini businessmen decreased in the sectors of trade and industry
to rates ranging between 40 to 60 percent, in less than three weeks since the
incidents.
o The arrival of foreign investment stopped. The economy relies on this to
diversify its base and create more employment opportunities; as investors
needs a secure, stable and active investment environment.
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5- Land Transport Sector (which was completely paralyzed):
EstimateddailylossesofaboutBD84thousand;abouthalfamilliondinarsinthe
week.
Theimpactonthissectorresultedina50to60percentdecreasefrommid-February
until the third week of March, due to the closure of vital streets and the fear of
citizens from going to work. This concern also led to a shortage of workers in the
ports and a slowdown in its operations, although it is open, which led to the decrease
in the import and export activities.
The difficulties in movement resulting in the confirmation by the Saudi-Bahraini
Business Council that the Saudi private sector companies operating in Bahrain
suspended their economic activities until the conditions improve.
6 - The Real Estate Sector (which was already suffering from the
consequences of the global financial crisis, was not in a different state
compared with other sectors):
Salesofrealestatedecreasedbecauseofthechaoticcircumstances.
Thelaunchesofnewprojectsinconstructionweredelayedbecauseofthedifficulty
in producing and transfer of building materials.
Theinabilityofdeveloperstopaytheirobligationstobanks.
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Thevolumeofrealestatetransactionssufferedadecreaseof40percenttwoweeks
after the outbreak of the events.
Thealmostcompletestopoftheconstructionsectorthatisstronglyassociatedwiththe
real estate sector. It is well known that this sector employs a large number of foreign
workers. This situation has harmed foreign labor recruitment offices, paralyzing it
completely until the losses reached about 100 percent.
All of the above consequently led to:
A fall back in economic growth expectations; it was expected according to the
calculations of the International Monetary Fund that a GDP of Bahrain will reach
$24.4 billion in 2011, achieving a growth rate of 5.1 percent, the highest rate in the
GCC after Qatar, but in light of harm to many of the paralyzed economic activities,
such as the numbers became a past dream; where analysts expected Bahrain GDPs
growth this year to be 3.4 percent.
Increasetheproportionofthebudgetdeficit,whichamountedtoabout10percentof
GDP in 2010; where:
o The government plans to increase public spending by 26 percent in the
draft budget of 2011 and 2012, compared with expenditure in 2009 plus the
expenditures recorded in the initial budget for the current year, in order to
compensate those affected by the riots.
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o Government revenues declined; it is supposed that business owners pay a fee
to a number of government agencies, but the continuation of the situation as
it is prevents them from paying continuously, which means lost government
funds.
TheglobalreputationoftheKingdomwasaffected,intermsof:
o The threat to the reputation of the Kingdom as the regions financial center.
Its position became threatened, especially as it was facing strong competition
that was trying to take that position even before the incidents.
o The inability of Bahraini producers and exporters to produce due to
disturbances means they did not fulfill export commitments, which led to loss
of the foreign customer confidence in Bahraini exports and the termination of
contracts with him.
Theunemploymentfilewasreopened,whichwasabsentforthepastfiveyearsdue
to low rates of less than 3.7 percent, according to the Bahrain Ministry of Labour.
Today it is expected to return to one of the most important issues because of the
economic consequences of the current protests. Thats the result of:
o The determination of many companies and some government departments to
layoff Bahrainis because of their participation in the general strike called by
the General Federation of Bahrain Workers. This lasted about 10 days and
caused heavy losses, in addition to the absence of many workers because of
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the security situation.
o The decision by a number of companies and institutions, especially foreign
ones, to reduce operations in Bahrain and move due to losses incurred in
the brief period that witnessed the unrest. This was especially true for those
working in the financial and tourism sectors, which were harmed the most,
following the oil sector.
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Chapter Four:
Monitored Violations
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The citizens and residents suffered from the scourge of the offenses and crimes that affected
security and stability in the region. The language of terror and fear was spread, as well as
the culture of sectarianism, sabotage and destruction with the hope, by the vandals in
overthrowing the regime. In this chapter we present a series of violations and serious
crimes committed by outlaws:
In the areas of security:
OrganizingunlicensedprotestsanddemonstrationssinceFebruary14thatconflict
with the demand of a law of gatherings, marches and demonstrations, and deliberately
holding them in the national celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the National
Action Charter that was approved by 98.4 percent of the people.
Attacks onsecuritypersonnelandcivilianswith swards, whichresultedin killing
two people.
TheoccupationoftheGCCroundabout(PearlRoundabout)andthedisruptionof
traffic in the most crowded streets of the Kingdom, and the formation of checkpoints
by protesters near the roundabout with the practice of swearing and insulting people
who passed by from the other sects.
Organizingindecentactivitiesintheroundabout.Alcoholbottleswerefound,which
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go against the very religious nature of the movement. Womens underwear were also
found, and there was news of the practice of pleasure marriages there.
Inflammatoryspeechesattheroundabout,someofwhichcallingtheSunnicommunity
infidels.
Attackingataxidriver(RashidAlMaamari,70yearsold)bybreakingintohiscar
deliberately by crashing it first face-to-face, and then beating and torturing him until
he died.
Attackingapproximately15workersfromdifferentAsiannationalities,resultingin
the death of one of them. Most of them are still in the hospital.
AbductingaboutfiveAsianworkers,torturingandphotographingthem.
Runningoverthreeofthepolicemenmorethanonceinabrutalmanner.Theyall
died as a result of the deliberate run-over by protesters from the Shia community.
SendingprovocativeandthreateningtextmessagesagainstforeignArabsandnon-
Arabs in Bahrain to spread intimidation and fear.
Deliberately closing the King Faisal Street, where the most important companies
and institutions of the economic sector are located, and dumping sand and stones,
threatening passers-by.
TamperingwiththelamppolesintheKingFaisalStreet.
DiggingtrenchesnearthePearlRoundabouttohidesomeoftheweapons,inaddition
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Deliberately provoking and threatening areas with high density of the Sunni
community.
Slandering,insultinganddefamingsecuritypersonnelandpolice.
Murdering and torturing whoever does not implement the plans; two people were
killed (from the Shia community) and they are Radhi Al-Radhi and Abdul Rasool
Al-Hujairi because they have exposed the actions of the members of the opposition
and rejected the civil disobedience.
Issuing fatwas (religious permissions) of by the Secular Council of the Shia
community in the Kingdom of Bahrain (a gathering that isnt authorized by law)
calling for the permissibility of killing and running over anyone who objects the
plans.
Using car horns in a special and provocative tone that means (overthrow the
regime).
Smugglingandusingwhiteweaponry,automaticweaponsandMolotov.
PlayingtherolesofreportersonTVchannels;theIranianchannelAlAalamand
Hezbollahs channel Al-Manar without a license.
DyinghousesofmilitarypersonnelfromtheSunnicommunityinvisiblecolorsasa
prelude to threaten members of the household of killing or harming them.
Agreeing with the Iranian ambassador to smuggle weapons and intelligence
devices.
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Seekingthecauseofacoupagainsttheregime.
In the Medical Field:
The occupation of the largest medical complex in the Middle East, Salmaniya
hospital.
LimitingtreatmenttotheShiacommunityonlyandtheexpulsionofthepatients
of the Sunni community, foreign and Asian nationals and refused treating them,
which led to the death of a woman who just gave birth to a child (Mona Almgahwi)
because of the deliberate slow treatment, as well as the death of another girl (Fatima
Al-Abbasi), as the ambulance didnt go to her deliberately. Dozens of people
were denied of treatment during two weeks, and number of visitors declined daily
according to statistics, from 1200 people to less than 300 people because of the fear
and dread that was spread in the hospital.
Strikesbydoctors,nursesandmostoftheSalmaniyastaff,asprotesttentswereset
up in the hospital, and many of them joined the protestors at the Pearl Roundabout.
Useofgovernmentambulancesinexternal,outrageousactivitiessuchassmuggling
weapons and people who committed crimes against the countrys security, such as
injury, such as what happened in the events of the University of Bahrain, where the
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terrorists attacked the university campus accompanied with an ambulance carrying a
large quantity of white weapons.
Stealing 16 ambulances out of the current 25 ambulances present in the hospital;
only some were recovered.
Theft of medical supplies from Salmaniya hospital to use in the roundabouts
activities, especially the oxygen equipment, which led to shortages at the hospital.
The estimated value of the stolen equipment stolen is nearly BD100 thousand.
Detention of many foreigners; they were handcuffed, beaten, tortured and
photographed to be used as a means to support their approach to mislead public
opinion, to change the system by using violence and to hold them hostage in the
hospital.
Detainingandtorturingoneofthesecuritypersonnelinsidethehospital.
Smugglinglight-andmedium-handweaponstohideinsidethehospital.
PreparingacompletestudiowithinthehospitaltoworkfortheIranianTVchannel
Al-Aalam, with a group of doctors and nurses playing the roles of reporters for the
channel, and permitting it to lie and deceit the public opinion.
Violate the sanctity of hospital rooms at the emergency department through the
permitting the entry of television stations in the injury rooms.
Theobviousfakingofinjuries,totheextentofspraying(magnesiumhydroxide)on
the bodies of some of the protesters to claim it is a disease. In addition dozens of
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blood bags were used to claim injuries for the purpose of photography.
Using Salmaniya hospital as a provocative platform from which inflammatory
speeches were given by leaders of the opposition.
ClosingthedoorsofSalmaniyahospitalandweldingthemtopreventsecurityforces
from entering.
IssuingpoliticalstatementsbytheBahrainMedicalSocietycallingfortheoverthrow
of the government.
Views Regarding the Medical Field:
The group of outlaws called for the participation and organization of unlicensed
protests and rallies in the health facilities, which includes the Salmaniya Medical
Complex, all primary health care centers, public health and licensed medical centers
and outpatient clinics during office hours. Those protests were held in front of the
main emergency entrance of Salmaniya Medical Complex and in front of the main
entrances of health centers during the period from 17 February until 16 March,
2011.
Thisdisruptedthedeliveryofhealthservicesbecauseoftheerectionofunlicensed
tents in front of the emergency entrance of the Salmaniya Medical Complex, where
seminars and political activities and exhibits were held throughout the period, with
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doctors leaving their jobs without justification and chanting abusively to officials of
the Ministry of Health, with their refusal to remove the tents and their determination
to remain at the site in order to repeat their desire to overthrow the regime. They also
collected financial contributions within the campus of the hospital throughout the
period violating the regulations applied in this sector.
Somehealthworkersduringworkinghourshaveorganizedmarchesinthecorridors
of the hospital and chanting slogans against the regime, which resulted in the
intimidation of patients and the abandoning of duties to provide care for patients..
They also gathered for marches inside the Salmaniya Medical Complex that headed
to the GCC roundabout (the main protesting location), with chants calling for the
overthrow of the regime, resulting in the cancellation of planned surgery for some
patients and the halt of operations in outpatient clinics.
In the meantime, providing medical services has been politicized to provide only
to the people of the same sect as the protestors inside the hospital without care
for performing their medical duty or work ethics and the adoption of this rule of
segregation as standard when providing services at the public hospital. The medical
personnel participating in the protests were devoid of all work ethics; where they
assaulted patients, especially foreigners, security forces of Bahraini and of Arab
origin during their request for health service, and denied them treatment, in addition
to university students when they were transferred to the hospital during the event of
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riots at the University of Bahrain on March 14, where they were insulted, kicked, as
well as questions, photographed and had their photographs published on the satellite
channels that supported the chaotic position of the protesters in which they claim
that they are the victims of direct security forces attacks. They were also denied
treatment. Doctors participating in the protest deliberately postponed surgeries; as
they eliminated about 700 operations during the period between 15th February to 17th
March 2011. The outpatient clinics also stopped working during those days, which
led to the inability of about 1,000 patients during that period to obtain outpatient
services. Some doctors have issued medical certificates for the strikers stating their
illness so they are granted a sick leave from work, without a real health excuse.
Some doctors and health workers in Ibn Sina Health Centre, on March 15, 2011
covered up an assault incident on a member of the security force by a group of
demonstrators in order to cover up on the assaulter and subsequently forged the
medical report and never informed the proper officials.
OneofthenursesatProsperousEraSchoolassaultedafemalehighschoolstudent
physically and verbally as the girl was shouting slogans in favor of the system,
anincident recorded at the police station on March 1, 2011. Some medical personnel
on March 16, 2011 hid demonstrators in Al Razi Health Centre, and let them wear
the clothing of health workers and patients in order to cover them up and fool the
security men, while taking advantage of the health centers as a shelter. They also
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used Salmaniya Medical Complex to hide weapons, to steal regular and narcotic
drugs andmedical devices, and then transferred them to the GCC roundabout, the
main location for the protest.
The theft of blood bags from the blood bank of Salmaniya hospital to be used in
plays before the foreign satellite to claim violent injuries caused by security men,
in addition, a group of physicians operated on some people with the purpose of
disfiguring them to make it appear that the security men were the perpetrators, which
is a striking violation of the last paragraph of Article (7) of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, which states: it is prohibited to conduct any medical
experiment on someone without his free consent.
There is no doubt that violations that have been monitored constitute a drastic
departure from all international norms and conventions and, in particular, from the
following articles of the International Covenant on Economic, Cultural, and Social
rights, and that is in accordance with Article (12) item (1), item (2) paragraph
(d) which states: 1 - The member states in this Covenant recognize the right of
everyone to the enjoyment of the highest standard of physical and mental health
that can be achieved. 2 - Member states of the present Covenant are obligated to
achieve measures for the full realization of this right shall include those necessary
for: creation of conditions which would assure medical services and medical care for
all in the case of the sickness.
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In the Educational Field:
OrganizingunauthorizedprotestsattheUniversityofBahrain.
BeatingdozensofmaleandfemalestudentsfromtheSunnicommunitywithwhite
weapons; many of them are still in the Bahrain Defense Force hospital in serious or
critical condition.
Harassment of girls from the Sunni community including the and tearing of their
clothes and physical assaults.
Theparticipationbysomeuniversityprofessors(menandwomen)whosupported
the protest by inciting and encouraging violence and the discontinuation of students
studies.
Throwingadisabledstudentfromthesecondfloor.
DestructionofpropertyinfacilitiesandofficesoftheUniversityofBahrain..
ThesecurityguardsoftheUniversityoftheShiacommunitywhoworkforprivate
security companies violated the university system and joined the protesters and have
reported on the whereabouts of students off the Sunni community for the purpose of
abusing them, as happened in S20 building of the University.
Bringing about 150 young protesters,who were at the Pearl roundabout,and
transferring them in several large buses (each with a capacity of 50 people) loaded
with swords, knives, rods and sticks to the University of Bahrain.
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Views Regarding the Events at the University of Bahrain:
The University of Bahrain, the prestigious National University that has graduated generations
of students who have contributed and participated in serving their country in all fields and
specialties, in light of the tragic events that occurred in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has
suffered a large share of sabotage and terrorism by its students. March 13, 2011 was an
ominous day in the history of the university.
Four protest marches started since the beginning of the second semester, which included
the strike to attend lectures at the Sakhir Campus and Isa Town Campus despite the fact
that university regulations strictly prohibit such marches. These marches were held outside
the college buildings and included cheers about overthrowing the regime and sarcastic
slogans against the symbols of the country.
To that point, student life was in full swing in all of the universitys colleges.Whenl the
leaders of opposing political societies were sure of the failure of their move, they made an
organized plan to cripple the studying by force on Sunday, March 13, 2011. On that fateful
day, events accelerated dramatically through the use of the most heinous tools of crime and
terrorism, which resulted in a spark of chaos in the university, but this time with illegal
assembly within the college buildings with violence and chaos. The first spark occurred
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due to a fight in the food court at eight oclock in the morning because of the repeated
provocations by the crowd chanting sectarian and hostile chants; among those chants
were ((O naturalized leave)) and ((Oh Hussein, oh Jamry)). Then, the protesters gathered
at Teachers College and wandered between university buildings until they settled in the
area opposite to the university mosque, all of this happening while the rest of the students
were in their classrooms.
An eyewitness (M. S. M) says: in the midst of this tension, some of the students were
aware of the arrival of the crowd of students to the Teachers College. As soon as they
arrived, they stormed through the doors and hit students in addition to tearing the Abaya
(Muslim womens dress) of female students, and then they left through the other door of
the College. Meanwhile, a number of students in the Teachers College asked the female
students to go up to the second floor so they can be protected, and soon they returned to
the college and threw students with chairs besides beating them, and then went out of the
Teachers College heading to the Arts College.
Another eyewitness (who refused to be named): what happened in the English language
building S20 is that some of the security guards (working for private security companies) at
the University asked us to enter the building in order to prevent any clashes or provocations
from the other party, but they came to the building and besieged us from the outside and
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started throwing stones at the building. Then two of the security guards told us that the head
of the security of the university would be present, which was a fabricated lie to keep us in as
long as possible, and then a large number of students who wanted to support students who
were inside entered and tasks were given to each of them in various parts of the building
except the roof door, which was locked.
He adds: female students were kept in a classroom on the second floor and were prevented
from going out or taking photos to protect themselves. Then a security guard asked one
of the students who was inside the building about their number, which made the student
suspect that this guard was a collaborator with students outside the building, so they took
him out of the building. Then students used water hoses and fire extinguishers to protect
themselves, but the hoses did not work and the fire extinguishers caused power outages and
fire alarms. Surprisingly, four ambulances arrived driven by people who did not wear the
known ambulance uniform and carried four students away even though there were not any
confrontations or injuries until that moment.
The witness adds: the saboteur students intensified their throwing of stones and broke
several windows, and a student who was standing near the gate of the building was also
beaten severely by a sharp sword, which resulted in three stabs in the leg and a torn lip and
then he was taken; some of them wanted to kill him, and others proposed taking him to
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the GCC roundabout. Students were able to remain there for just 15 minutes and then they
went to the second floor, but one student was a little late to go up so he hid in a classroom
on the ground floor. But the rioters broke into the building and found him and beat him until
they broke one of his arms and he then tried hard to communicate with his father, but they
spoke to him and said: ((we killed your son and we will come to kill you, O naturalized)).
!! Then the boy was left there as he was being banned banned from getting treatment by
the University paramedics.
He then went on: the vandals were able, after attempts and many confrontations, to go to
the second floor and the roof door was opened for them by a security guard and a student
was chased by nearly 30 people and was beaten and tortured until he almost died, they
even tried to throw him from the the top and rip his eye off and then agreed to take him
to the roundabout. And when he was taken to the ambulance, but the medics mocked
him and said they were going to take him to Salmaniya hospital so he wont be treated
but he refused and asked to go to the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital and they seem
to have agreed when they saw that his condition was tragic and very dangerous. In the
meantime, one classroom in the ground floor was burned and smoke rose to the top, which
may have caused some students to suffocate, but because some windows were broken,
it helped to clear the air. Students stood with all their strength and patience until the riot
police intervened, firing tear gas. Thisforcing the vandal students to escape in a systematic
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manner to their agreed assembly point, and they were taken from there by buses. Then the
confrontations moved outside the walls of the University on both sides, which allowed the
forces to break off the clashes and drive the vandals into Hamad Town (the closest area to
the campus), close to roundabout number 22. However, immediately after the riot police
left, the vandals returned to the campus, trespassing on the main gate of the University, and
broke down cars and vandalized pictures of leadership. Worse of all was the arrival of a
huge number of demonstrators from the GCC roundabout, and people saw them in trucks,
buses and ambulances on Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman street, carrying all kinds of bladed
weapons in their hands, and upon arrival went to the eastern gate and assaulted University
security guards and broke down the door and did not back down until the return of the riot
police again who completely controlled the security situation.
Another witness (S.B) said: while we were in a lecture at nine in the morning we heard shouts
of rallies from afar; then a group of the opposition led by a number of young men and a
bigger number of women arrived. This group came from the Business College building and
headed towards the English language building (S17) with high voices preventing doctors
and teachers from explaining and educating the studentsThis crowd was chanting: Down
Hamad! Down Hamad! Down Khalifa! (as seen in the attached CD), and the proffessors
didnt know whether to complete the lessons or face what is happening outside the classroom,
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leaving students in astonishment and confusion. Will the proffessors commence lecture
and teach? They were just waiting for the reaction!
After that, the doctor took his book and left the classroom with an exclamation mark on
his face. The demonstrating students rallied around the buildings in a strange, unique and
well-organized way and headed to the area in front of the lobby.
Teachers Association:
CallformanystrikesinallfacilitiesoftheMinistryofEducation,inordertostop
education, where the statements of the Association (attached) addressed educational
and administrative bodies and students parents, causing imbalances in educational
facilities, and had a negative impact on students and their parents.
Takingprimary,elementaryandsecondaryschoolstudentsbetweenages6and17
to demonstrate and transporting them to the protesting location in trucks that are
usually used to transport sheep and cows.
TheAssociationsPresident,Mr.MahdiAbuDeeb,gavealotofpoliticalspeeches
at the GCC roundabout on behalf of the Association, which do not fall within the
scope and objectives of the association.
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Assaultsofandthreatstothevolunteers(whoappliedtovolunteertoteachbecause
of the shortage caused by the reluctance of the protesters from teachers to do their
educational mission) of men and women in the educational sector, and deliberately
distorting their reputation and image.
In the Labor Field:
Organizing civil disobedience by workers to harm the countrys economy and
tourism, particularly in vital sectors such as the oil and financial sectors and also some
government companies operating in the field of natural gas under the supervision of
the General Federation of Bahrain Unions, headed by Mr. Hassan Mahfouz, from the
Shia community.
Employeeswiththesamemindsetofprotestersinseveralministriesandcompanies
stole office cars and used them in the protest.
Many employees escaped from their work in collusion with their employers, and
assigned regular staff (from the Sunni community in lower positions) to do their
work.
Allwhowishedtoattendworkregularlywerethreatenedtobekilled,beatenorhave
their houses burned.
Protestorsenteredsomecompaniesandministriesandthreatenedemployees.
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Views Regarding the Labor Field:
The General Federation of Bahrain Unions enjoys great attention from the authorities in
the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the Union exercises its functions independently. The first day
of May of each year, which represents the International Workers Day, is an official holiday
in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
But the events that were witnessed in the Kingdom of Bahrain made the General Federation
of Bahrain Unions politicize the union action, and we explain below the extent of the
unions violation of laws and international agreements as follows:
Article 21 of the Unions Act organizes the controls of the workers right to strike in defense
of their professional interests, and the availability of the following conditions are required
to exercise this right by workers:
Thatthedemandsofthestrikeshouldbework-related,suchastheincreaseofwages,
improvement of working conditions, increased leave days, or reduced working hours
and other work-related demands that can be provided by the employer.
TheapprovaloftheExtraordinaryGeneralAssociationoftheuniontodeclarethe
strike.
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Notifyingtheemployeroftheintentionofworkerstogoonstrikeatleastfifteendays
prior, to give the employer the opportunity to discuss the demands of the workers
and to consider the possibility of responding to them.
Astrikeisinadmissibleifthelabordisputewaspresentedforarbitration,inorderto
give opportunity to the arbitral to settle the dispute amicably away from the threat of
a strike.
A strike is inadmissible in essential services facilities. The legislature has given
the authority to the Prime Minister to determine these vital facilities, and he has
indeed issued decision No. 62 of 2006 identifying vital installations where strikes
are prohibited, noting that these facilities are limited.
What is proven by the data issued by the Federation of Bahrain Unions (attached) is
that the unfortunate events experienced by the Kingdom of Bahrain were not caused by
labor demands, but they were purely political and aimed at toppling the political system
and causing damage to the structure of society and its social and economic identity and
eventually dragged it to sectarianism, division and the spread of chaos. The participation
of the General Federation of Bahrain Unions and some labor unions in those political
movements has led to a split the labor movement lines and lead them astray them from
their missions to tackle work-related demands. This is proven by the refusal of many labor
unions who fall under the umbrella of the federation to participate in the general strike as
they were aware of the risks and aims intended by that call.
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The General Federation of Bahrain Unions and some labor unions have distributed
statements that call workers in companies and institutions to the general strike, and that
this general strike is in fact civil disobedience that is criminally punishable. The aim of
workers refusal to work is to achieve purely political demands, and this strike is a flagrant
violation of Article 20 of the Unions Act. The federation and participating unions in the
strike violated and ignored alllegal requirements stipulated by the law in order to respond
to the demands of the political society that the unions leaders belong to, for example, Mr.
Salman Mahfouz is Secretary-General of the Federation of Bahrain Unions, and belongs
to the Nationalist, Islamist Al-Wefaq Society.
The general strike called by the General Federation of Bahrain Unions and other participating
unions has caused damage to the security and stability of the country, as it did not stop at
the political and security aspects, but reached the economic aspects, where many business
owners were economically damaged which negatively affected the interests and lives of
citizens.
The Ministry of Labor, from the beginning, took the initiative to distribute statements
and repeated explanations to show the reality of this strike and the negative effects that
could result from the failure of workers to work, especially in the vital facilities, which
would lead to disorder in the course of normal life of all citizens or a part of them, such as
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education, health, electricity, and water institutions and oil and gas sector and other vital
facilities (attached).
Some of the economically affected companies by the refusal of their workers to work -
in implementation of this strike- to take some disciplinary action against some workers,
using their disciplinary authority granted by law and regulations. The Minister of Labor
confirmed the right of any worker who was exposed to disciplinary sanction to submit
a free labor judiciary complaint to ensure the correct enforcement of law, that he is not
unjustly dismissed, and his case is referred to the competent courts in case they could not
resolve the matter amicably. The Prime Minister has issued a decision to form a higher
committee to consider the cases of dismissed employees from their work to determine the
validity and legality of this dismissing with the right to resort to the judiciary.
It should be noted that the immunity of trade union established for unionists do not
preclude disciplinary actions against them if they commit mistakes like other workers,
but this immunity ensures the freedom to exercise permissible union activity, where to the
unionists who was fired from his job the right to go to court and demand to return to work
and get compensated if his demand was legitimate, and then the court would return him
to work and compensate him if it was proven that he was laid off because of a permissible
union activity, pursuant to Article 110 repeated from the Labor Law in the private sector.
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It should be noted that the International Labor Organization (ILO) has not made any
agreement regarding the right to strike. The only international agreement dedicated to the
right to strike is the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by
the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966. Article (8) of this agreement states
that this right is exercised within the laws of the country concerned.
Other Violations:
Four women of the opposition entered a Sunni mosque (Masjid Abu Bakr) on
Exhibition Road, intimidated a child, forced her to call for the overthrow of the
regime, and chased her.
Harassing,cursingandinsultingaSunniwomanintheFinancialHarborareawhile
surrounding her and not allowing her to move while in her car.
ThedesecrationofmosquesoftheSunnicommunity.
Acts of Prejudice towards the Places of Worship of the Sunni Community:
1. Breaking in to the Umm Al Hassam Club Mosque:
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On Wednesday, March 2, 2011, troublemakers entered the mosque and expelled the
Moathin (who calls for prayer). One of these individuals called for prayer using the Shias
own calling through the external speakers, which raised fear and panic in the surrounding
area of the mosque. Worshipers proved the incident and officially recorded it at the Salman
Port police station.
2. Masjid Saad bin Amer in Manama:
The vandals on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 beat the Moathin of the mosque (who calls for
prayer), Mr. Hafidh Taib Sharif. He proved the incident and recorded formal minutes at the
Noam police station.
3. Al-Thowawda Mosque in Rass Ruman:
An Egyptian citizen was attacked at dawn on Monday, March 14, 2011 by armed militias
after the dawn prayer. The Imam of the mosque, in addition to some people in the surrounding
area, called emergency 999 to notify officials of the incident.
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4. Western Meat Market Mosque in Manama:

Afraid of being killed by demonstrators, the Imam of the mosque in Manama was unable
to go to the mosque. The road leading to the mosque was heavily armed by militias with
swords, and therefore the Imam closed the mosque from Monday, March 14 to March 16,
2011.

5. Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan Grand Mosque in Hamad Town:

On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, outlaws threatened the mosques Moathin (who calls for
prayer) in Hamad Town, Roundabout No. 22. The outlaws asked him not to call for prayer,
prompting the formation of a civil committee to protect the mosque.
6. Abdul Aziz Khunji Grand Mosque, located on the Government Road in
Manama:
On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, vandals prevented both the Imam and Moathin (who calls
for prayer) of the mosque from reaching the mosque to perform prayer, which resulted in
closing the mosque.
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7. Yateem Mosque on the Government Road in Manama:
On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 outlaws entered the mosque by force, breaking the doors.
They later surrounded the residence of Imam on the second floor of the mosque, where his
family was located, and blew up a gas cylinder next to the mosque. As a result, the mosque
was closed from March 15 to March 19, 2011.
8. Intimidating worshipers at Mubarak Hasawi Mosque in Manama:
On Wednesday, February 16, 2011, terrorists disgracefully attacked the Mubarak Hasawi
Mosque near the Manama Central Market, knocking on its doors hard after mid-night.
Their actions scared and caused panic in the guard and Moathin of the mosque, who
stopped prayer due to the lack of security and interruption of tranquility for its worshipers.
In addition, a group of women broke into the womens prayer section late at night and
remained on premise until the police removed them. This event is documented at Al Noaim
police station.
9. Al Mugeera bin Shoba Mosque in Sitra:
The mosque was closed on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 due to the extreme tension in the
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area, as well as the surveillance of the Imam and the mosques worshipers.
10. Sheikh Ali bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Mosque in Manama:
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 hundreds of people gathered at the southern door of the
mosque, including some drug addicts, where Imam Fouad Ibrahim Obaid was located.
These individuals engaged in a violent altercation with the Imam, claiming that the mosque
belongs to the Shia and that Sunni Endowments do not have ownership documents for
the mosque. They then demanded that the name of the mosque be changed, removing Al-
Khalifa in the name. Fearful, the Imam had to show his cooperation and close the mosque.
The gatherers then went to the great Persians Maatam (a place where Shia gathers to
perform Shia rituals), returning to the mosque with more people armed with swords, iron
daggers and machetes. According to the Imam, a large number of swords exist in the great
Persians Maatam, Ben Salloum Maatam, Abdul Aal Maatam, Dashti Maatam, Jaharmi
Maatam, Wali Alasr Maatam and Madan Maatam.
Two of the worshippers at this mosque (Pakistani and Bangladeshi) were killed by protesters
and their bodies were thrown next to Katkoot restaurant opposite of the mosque. A
number of expatriates were also injured.
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11. Fatima Mosque in Hamad Town:
On Friday, March 18, 2011, a group of protesters tried to attack the mosque in Roundabout
No. 11. The attack was attempted on worshipers before the Friday prayers started. The
protesters were confronted by the worshipers, causing panic among the worshipers,
especially the elderly and children, ultimately delaying prayer.
12. Abdullah Yateem Mosque in the Village of Barbar:
A large group of vandals threw stones at the mosque on Friday, March 18, 2011.
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1. Demonstrators entered foreign countries in the affairs of the Kingdom by raising
pictures of representatives of other countries in the demonstrations, to discriminate
between Sunnis and themselves, exposing the countrys safety to danger. This act
is punishable under Article (112) of the Penal Code, which states: Whosoever has
intentionally committed an act that lead to compromising the independence of the
country or its unity or safety of its lands is punished by the death penalty.
2. Demonstrators destroyed police cars using either knives or flammable materials.
These police vehicles are intended to preserve and defend the homeland and this
act is punishable under Article (129), which states: shall be punished with life
imprisonment or temporary imprisonment whoever damages or defects or deliberately
disrupted weapons, ships, aircraft, equipment, facilities, means of transportation,
facilities, ammunition, supplies, medicine, or others prepared to defend the country
or which is used in doing so..
3. Demonstrators spread false news, data, rumors about the internal situation of the
country, which undermines financial confidence, and harms its prestige and position.
They engaged in various activities that would harm national interests, including the
preparation of a complete studio in Salmaniya hospital for the Iranian TV channel
Al-Aalam where a group of doctors and nurses played the roles of reporters for the
channel, and permitted the demonstrators to lie and deceit the public opinion. They
violated the sanctity of hospital rooms in the emergency department by granting
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permission for the television channels to enter rooms of the injured. The obvious
faking of injuries, to the extent of spraying (magnesium hydroxide) on the bodies of
some of the protesters, to claim they had a disease. In addition, dozens of blood bags
were photographed. Lastly, Salmaniya Hospital was used as a provocative platform
in which inflammatory speeches were given by leaders of the opposition.
These actions are punishable under Article (134), which states: shall be punished by
imprisonment for no less than three months and a fine of not less than one hundred
dinars, or either of the two for every citizen who deliberately broadcast overseas
false news, data, or rumors about the internal situation of the country, which would
weaken the confidence in the financial state or harm its prestige, or position, or in
any that way or activity that might harm the national interests.
4. Demonstrators have soughtwith the aid of foreign countries that have mastered
training to inform them of the interest of these countriesto topple and change the
countrys constitution, its Amiri regime and government structure to seize power.
This action is punishable under Article (148), which states: shall be sentenced to
life in all who tried to forcibly overthrow or change the countrys constitution or by-
laws or Amiri regime of government form or the seizure of power.
If the crime occurred as a result of seeking or communicating with a foreign country
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with one of those who are working to their advantage and with an armed gang ,
whoever seeked, communicated or formed the gang or took its leadership or was a
leader of some sort is punishable by death.
5. Demonstrators formed armed gangs that spread throughout the Kingdom, attacking
people in their homes, abusing and terrorizing their sense of security. Demonstrators
resist the police to prevent the implementation of laws, while spreading confusion
and instability in the Kingdom. They have broken into the homes of citizens and
residents in various areas, killing and abusing many residents. This act is punishable
under Article (152), which states: sentenced to death whoever forms a armed gang
that attacked a community of population or resisted with weapons the public authority
to prevent the implementation of laws, and also whoever took over the leadership of
a gang of this sort, or took a leadership of some sort in it.Those who joined the gang,
but did not contribute to the formation or assumed the leadership, are punishable by
life or temporary imprisonment.
6. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in a public placethe Pearl Roundaboutone
of the most overcrowded places, in order to assault the Sunni sect. Demonstrators
engaged in cursing, insulting and incitement againsts Sunnis and took actions to
prepare and facilitate crimes of hate. This led to a breach of overall security and
is punishable under Article (178), which states: Every person who participates in
a [unlicensed] gathering in a public place consisting of at least five people, with
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the purpose to commit crimes or preparing or facilitating them or disrupting public
order/overall security, even if it is to achieve a legitimate purpose, shall be punished
by imprisonment for not more than two years and a fine not exceeding two hundred
dinars, or one of the two punishments.
In addition to rallies and rioting, the use of violence and assault on private cars
and the children of the Sunni community is punishable under Article (179), which
states: If one or more of the crowd attempted to use violence to achieve the purpose
for which they gathered, it is considered a riot and all who participated in this riot
and are aware of it are punished by imprisonment and a fine not exceeding five
hundred dinars, or one of those punishments.Demonstrators publicly, in front of
the whole world, insulted His Majesty the King of the country, the countrys flag
and the national emblem, all of which are punishable under Article (214), which
states: shall be punished by imprisonment whoever insults in any way publicly the
rules or the flag or the national emblem.
Demonstrators also insulted the House of Deputies, the Shura Council and their
members from the Sunni community, the Army, the Judiciary, Ministries, and public
bodies in the country. This act is punishable under Article (216), which states: shall
be punished by imprisonment or a fine whoever insults in any public method the
National Council or other statutory bodies, the army or the courts or authorities or
public interests.
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8. Protestors used all methods of threats, violence and other illegal means to strike
fear in public employees and individuals responsible for overseeing public services,
with the purpose of disrupting the activities of The Kingdom and paralyzing its
movement. Such actions make individualswithout any rightunable to perform
their jobs. An example of this disservice is the incident that occurred at Salmaniya
Hospital when Sunni staff was assaulted and hospital services were limited to Shia
citizens only. Another example is when protestors threatened people that work in
educational institutions, limiting their ability to perform day to day tasks. These acts
are punishable under Article (220), which states: shall be punished by imprisonment
for not more than five years whoever used force or violence or threat with a public
employee or a person in charge of a public service with the aim to unlawfully carry
him to perform his duties or to refrain him from doing it and did not reach that aim,
but if the offender reached his aim the punishment shall be imprisonment for not
more than ten years.
The punishment shall be imprisonment in both cases if the crime is premeditated, or
was practiced with more than one person or a person carrying a weapon.
9. Organizing a civil disobedience by workers in effort to harm the countrys economy
and tourism, particularly in vital sectors such as oil and finance, and some government
companies operating in the field of natural gas under the supervision of the General
Federation of Bahrain Unions, headed by Mr. Hassan Mahfouz, from the Shia
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community.
This act is punishable under Article (293), which states: If at least three public
employees left their work, even if in the form of resignation or intentionally abstained
to perform one of the duties of their jobs, if they agree on it or aimed by this action
to achieve a common purpose, are all punished by imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one year.
The punishment shall be imprisonment if the abandonment or refusal would expose
peoples lives, health or safety to danger or if that would cause disturbance or strife
among people, or if it harmed a public interest or if the offender is an instigator.
Article (294) states: shall be punished with the penalty of imprisonment for a term
not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding fifty dinars any employee leaving
work or refused to work or perform one of his duties with an intention of impeding
the progress of work or cause systematic disorder.
If the abandonment or refusal would expose peoples lives, health or safety to
danger or if that would cause disturbance or strife among people, or if it harmed
a public interest or if the offender is an instigator, it is considered an extreme
circumstance.
Article (295) states: the penalty prescribed in the first paragraph of the preceding Article
is sentenced to the instigator of a public employee or more in any way to leave work or
abstain from performing one of his job duties if the incitement did not lead to any result.
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The same penalty is sentenced to whoever encouraged the crimes set forth in the first
paragraph of this article or the first paragraph of Article (293).
It is considered a means of encouragement spreading correct or false news of these crimes
in a manner of publicity.
10. Demonstrators vandalized four mosques of the Sunni community in Manama,
resulting in the closing of the mosque doors, preventing the call for prayer, and
attacked the Moathin from Bangladesh. The Moathin was beaten and tortured by
cutting his tongue and breaking his skull until he died in Hamad Town. According
to his colleague, the protesters said Bahrain is a Shia country and the Sunni sects
payer calling should not be raised. This statement is a rejected prejudice of the
freedom to exercise religion and is punishable under Article (309), which states:
shall be punished by imprisonment of term not exceeding one year or a fine not
exceeding one hundred dinars whoever assaulted in any public way on a recognized
religion or abase its rituals. In addition, Article (311) states: shall be punished
by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding two
hundred dinars:
Who deliberately jammed a practice of a recognized religion, a religious ceremony,
religious meeting or disturbed something of the sort or prevent it by force or threatened
it.
Who distorted, destroyed or desecrated a building is ready to practice rituals of a
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recognized religion or a symbol or other things with religious sanctity.
11. Motivated by hatred and religious enmity, demonstrators deliberately murdered
many Sunni policemen, Sunni citizens, and Sunni residents who have Asian
citizenship,based on the guidance of the fatwas of their sheikhs. They killed two
people (from the Shia community), Radhi Al Adhi and Abdul Rasul Al Hujairi,
because they exposed the actions of the members of the opposition and rejected the
civil disobedience. This act is punishable under Article (333), which states:Who kills
of a soul deliberately is punished by life or temporary imprisonment. The penalty is
death if the killings occurred with surveillance, or preceded by the determination, or
associated with or linked to another crime, or if occurred on an assets of the offender
or a public employee or in charge of public service during or because of or on the
occasion of his performance of his job or service, or if a toxic substance or explosive
was used for it.
12. Motivated by hatred and religious enmity, demonstrators deliberately performed
numerous crimes against the safety of others body against Sunni policemen, citizens,
and residents with Asian citizenship, in an effort to harm them based on guidance
from the fatwas by their sheikhs. This abuse, performed using white weapons, caused
sustained injuries, such as the loss of vital organs. Demonstrators have beaten dozens
of Sunni students, women and men using white weapons, many of whom are still in
the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital in disastrous conditions.
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These acts are punishable under Article (338), which states: shall be punished by
imprisonment for not more than five years whoever assaults the safety of the body of
another by any means of attack and leads to permanent disability, without intending
to cause it.
The punishment shall be imprisonment for not more than ten years if the availability
of one of the conditions set out in the second paragraph of Article 333, or the offender
was under the influence of a state of intoxication or sedation, and without prejudice
to the last paragraph of Article (34).
Article (339) states: shall be punished with the penalty of imprisonment or a fine whoever
assaults the safety of the body of another by any means of attack and led to his illness or
incapacity for work for a period of more than twenty days.
The punishment shall be imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not
exceeding one hundred dinars if the result of the attack did not reach the degree of gravity
mentioned in the previous paragraph. If the attack was on a pregnant woman and caused
abortion, it would be considered an extreme circumstance.
Article (340) states: if the attack mentioned in the previous four articles took place using
a weapon or a stick or any other machine by one or more people within a group composed
of at least five people who agreed on the infringement and abuse, the punishment shall be
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imprisonment or a fine for each of them.
And that is without prejudice to the more strict punishment deserved by those who
contributed to the assault or any other penalty provided by law.
Demonstrators detained many foreigners; they were handcuffed, beaten, tortured, and
photographed to mislead public opinion and charge the system by using violence to hold
these individuals hostage in the hospital. Examples included a detained and tortured
security personnel from the hospital; an attack on a taxi driver (Rashid Al Maamari, 70
years old) by crashing into his car and then beating and torturing to death; and an attack
on approximately 15 workers from different Asian nationalities, resulting in one death and
the hospitalization of most of the others. The demonstrators also abducted about five Asian
workers, tortured and photographed them, and tortured those who didnt comply with their
plans.. These acts are punishable under Article (357), which states: shall be punished by
imprisonment whoever arrests a person, detained or deprived him of his liberty without a
lawful mean.
The punishment shall be imprisonment in the following cases:
1, If the act was accompanied by the use of force or threat of death or serious harm or acts
of physical or psychological torture.
2. If the act was done by two or more people or one person carrying a weapon.
3. If the period of arrest, detention or deprivation of liberty was more than a month.
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4. If the purpose of the act is gain, revenge, rape or assault the victim.
5. If the act was against a public employee during or because of or on the occasion of
performing his duty.
Article (368) states: shall be punished with the penalty of imprisonment for a term not
exceeding ten years whoever abducted a person by himself or by others.
If the abduction was done by deception or meets one of the situations described in the
previous article, it is considered an extreme circumstance.
Kidnapping and torture crimes have resulted the deaths of some hostages, which is
considered an extreme circumstance as stipulated in Article (359): if the crime set forth in
the preceding two articles has lead to the death of the victim, the punishment is the death
penalty or life imprisonment.
13. Demonstrators used all types of weapons. Possession of these weapons without
a license is criminalized. Demonstrators smuggle and hid these weapons inside
Salmaniya Hospital, where they carried firearms, explosives, swords, bayonets,
daggers, spears, blades, spears and binomial knives on their persons. This act is is
contrary to Article (7) of the Decree-Law No.16) for the year 1976 on explosives,
weapons and ammunition, which states:it is prohibited without a license from the
Minister of Interior to acquire or make or carry:
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and pistols that work by air pressure and fire a single bullet and rifles, pistols and
cartridges that are used in guidance and pistols that work with explosive devices or
parts of such weapons.
Swords, spears, daggers, blades, sonkat, binomial knives, edge, nasf, and Brass Rail
(Punic) and axes, pointed or polished bars that are fixed with sticks and sticks which
ends with a ball of thorns, unless there is a justification of the necessary personal or
craft or profession.
According to Article (11): it is not permissible to acquire or make or carry
ammunition used in the weapons mentioned in Article (7) except for one who was
exempt or licensed for the possession or making of a weapon and was related to the
exempted weapons or authorized under the provisions of this the law.
Article (18) states: shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five
years and a fine not exceeding two hundred dinars whoever violates the provisions
of Article (11) of this law.
And is punishable by imprisonment for not less than five years and a fine of not
less than five hundred dinars whoever violates the provisions of section (a) of the
first paragraph of Article (7) if it was inside one of the houses of worship, or public
transportation or within any gathering place where the public frequented visit.
Shall be punished by life imprisonment whoever violates the provisions of Articles
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(6), section (a) of the first paragraph of Article (7), Article (8) if it was connected
with what is stated in section (a) of Article (7) and Article (11), and it was with the
intention of using the explosive material or firearms or ammunition, in an activity
that disturbs the peace or public order.
Article (19) stated: shall be punished by the penalty of imprisonment and a fine not
exceeding one hundred dinars whoever violates the provisions of section (b) of the
first paragraph of Article (7) and the provisions of the first paragraph of Article (8)
if it was connected to the provisions of section (b) of Article (7) of this law.
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Violations Committed by the
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Outlaw practices of sabotage committed by third parties and personalities are criminal
and banned in the framework of domestic law. What occurred was intended to shake the
Kingdom of Bahrain as a sovereign country and is completely contrary to the principles of
its international law of human rights, thus we present the following:
First: the mechanisms established internationally to demand rights and
exercise of freedoms:
It is known that exercising rights and freedoms in our present world, under the order of the
domestic law of the country, does not justify breaking local laws. Rights and freedoms are
subjective, and are exercised under regulatory national laws starting with the Constitution.
Laws and regulations issued by the authority ensure legislation to support exercising rights
and freedoms, as stated in Article (29) Item (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights: nobody is subject to any restrains in the exercise of his rights and freedoms except
the ones determined by law.
Therefore, exercising rights and freedoms under the rule of domestic law is allowed and
guided by the agreements, declarations, conventions and international contracts in the
regulation of these rights and freedoms.
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Article (29) Item (3) states: it is not permissible in any case to exercise these rights in a
way contrary to the purposes of the United Nations and its principles, and perhaps the most
important purposes of the United Nations as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations
is to achieve peace and security. How peace and security would be achieved under the
deliberate misconception that was adopted by outlaw parties and figures through their acts
of sabotage and chaos in the Kingdom of Bahrain, claiming that those acts fall under the
exercise of rights and freedoms.
Second: The most important international conventions that the Kingdom
of Bahrain has ratified or joined:
UniversalDeclarationofHumanRights
InternationalConventionontheEliminationofAllFormsofRacialDiscrimination
TheConventionagainstTortureandotherInhumanandCruelorDegradingTreatment
and Punishment
The Convention on the Rights of the Child and discretionary protocols on the
involvement of children in armed conflicts, the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women
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TheInternationalCovenantonCivilandPoliticalRights
TheInternationalCovenantonEconomic,SocialandCulturalRights
InternationalLaborOrganizationConventionontheWorstFormsofChildLabor
Third: The actions of the Kingdom of Bahrain are consistent with its
obligations under the international conventions to which it has committed,
particularly the International Declaration and Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights:
1 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
First, the background of the declarations texts and terms:
The texts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are characterized by inclusiveness
and uses the system of the French curriculum in its organization, which presents the
general principle of the right or freedom without giving details so the declaration would not
be rejected outright by countries.
So the Declaration allowed each country to develop legislation to regulate and detail the
rights and freedoms that it contained on the grounds that the countries themselves wold
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enforce and implement the the Declaration.
The Declaration includes 30 articles that put forward most of the rights and freedoms to
which the Kingdom of Bahrain committed itself and which are contained in Chapter III of
the Constitutiontitled General Rights and Duties and implemented through a package of
laws.
Second was the contradiction of the outlaw parties and figures with the Declaration:
Through the extrapolation of Chapters Four and Five of the report, it is clear that there are
many irregularities that are inconsistent not only with domestic Bahraini law, but constitute
flagrant violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Will not re-list all the offenses here, but will say that all the irregularities that occurred
in the Kingdom of Bahrain from terrorists and outlaws were in breach of the assumed
sound mechanisms for the exercise of rights and freedoms, the main principle of which is
found in the idea that my freedom ends when it impinges freedoms of others. What if
what has happened in Bahrain did not affect the rights and freedoms of others alone, but
also threatened the security and peace of the entire country and created an atmosphere of
terror, panic and fear among all the components of Bahrain, with the doctrine and spirit of
murder, extermination and evil dominating the scene?
Article (29) item (3) of the Declaration states the following: These rights and freedoms
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may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Perhaps the most important purpose of the United Nations as set forth in the Charter of
the United Nations is to achieve peace and security. How would peace and securitybe
achieved under the deliberate misconception of the outlaw parties and figures that their
acts of sabotage and chaos in the Kingdom of Bahrain fall under the exercise of rights and
freedoms?
And so, the criminal behavior that we have documented in this report conflicts completely
with the principles of international human rights, which assumes that people will assert
their rights in a legitimate and democratic way and not use chaos, murder and sabotage
tampering acquirements as a way to pressure for desired change.
2 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Part II, Article 2, Item (2)
states: Where not already provided for by existing legislative or other measures, each
State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take the necessary steps, in accordance
with its constitutional processes and with the provisions of the present Covenant, to adopt
such laws or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in
the present Covenant..Article (3) outlines the ways and mechanisms of appeal contained
in the Covenant.
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Here we present an important question: Did the Kingdom of Bahrain enact binding legislation
related to these rights and freedoms, or not? And are there administrative government
entities responsible of the enforcement of legislation or not?
We answer the questions as follows:
First: The purpose of the text of Article (2) above:
The intent of Article (2) in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is to say
that the rights and freedoms set forth in the Covenant require legislation and administrative
procedures in accordance with domestic law as well as the right of individuals to appeal
charges and convictions. If acountry provides the procedures, legislation, and remedies
required, the individuals must follow them to claim their rights and freedoms. If they
exhauste those remedies without achieving their objective, they would have the right
to press a human-rights case. Also, the country does not provide administrative and
legislative procedures, they would have the right to the a human-rights hearing because
of the lack of adequate national mechanisms to guarantee their rights and freedoms.
Second: Did the Kingdom of Bahrain enact the necessary legislation on rights and freedoms
or not?
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Will not go into detail in the discussinflegislation, but we will discuss laws on rights and
freedoms that were enacted in the ten years since the King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifa took power in 1999, and they are as follows:
DecreeLawNo.34of1999amendingsomeprovisionsofDecreeLawNo.4of1998
to join The Convention against Torture and other Inhuman and Cruel Or Degrading
Treatment and Punishment adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations
on December 10, 1984.
LawNo.7fortheyear2006thatratifiedtheArabCharterofHumanRights.
LawNo.56fortheyear2006approvingtheadherenceoftheKingdomofBahrainto
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Law No.10 for the year 2007 approving the adherence of the Government of the
Kingdom of Bahrain to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights.
LawNo.1fortheyear2008ontraffickinginpersons.
Decree Law No.47 for the year 2002 on the organizing of the press, printing and
publishing.
LawNo.26fortheyear2005onpoliticalorganizations.
LawNo.32fortheyear2006amendingsomeprovisionsofDecreeLawNo.18for
the year 1973 on public meetings, marches and gatherings.
TradeunionlawissueddbyDecreeLawNo.33of2002,asamendedbyLawNo.49
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for the year 2006.
Decree Law No.44 for the year 2002 amending some provisions of the law of
associations, social clubs, cultural and private bodies in the field of youth sports,
and private institutions issued by Legislative Decree No. (21) for the year 1989.
LawNo.73fortheyear2006amendingsomeprovisionsoftheLaborLawofthe
Civil Sector issued by Legislative Decree Law No. 23 for the year 1976.
Decree Law No.12 for the year 2001, approving the adherence of Bahrain to the
International Labor Organization Convention No. (182) for the year 1999 on the
prohibition of the worst forms of children labor and immediate action to eliminate
them.
Decree Law No.8 for the years 2000 to ratify the amendment to paragraph (2) of
Article (43) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted
by the General Assembly in November 1989.
DecreeLawNo.22fortheyear2000onfamilycustody.
Decree Law No.5 for the year 2002 approving the joining the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
DecreeLawNo.24fortheyear2002ontheratificationoftheConventionestablishing
the Organization of Arab Women.
Law No.11 for the year 2004 on pre-marriage medical examinations for both
genders.
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LawNo.19fortheyear2004approvingtheadherenceoftheKingdomofBahrain
to The Convention on the Rights of the Child and discretionary protocols on the
involvement of children in armed conflicts, the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography, which are connected to the Convention on the Rights of
Children.
LawNo.31fortheyear2005onsocialinsurancetoBahrainisworkingabroadand
the like.
LawNo.34fortheyear2005toestablishthealimonyfund.
LawNo.18fortheyear2006onsocialsecurity.
LawNo.28fortheyear2006onreservesforfuturegenerations.
LawNo.74fortheyear2006onthecare,rehabilitationandemploymentofdisabled
people.
LawNo.5fortheyear2007onanti-beggingandhomelessness.
These are the only laws enacted by the Kingdom of Bahrain during 10 years, laws that
effectively and actually delineate the rights and freedoms of the citizens of Bahrain.
Legislatively, the Kingdom of Bahrain has provided to individuals their right to of legislation
that gives legal and statutory means for them to claim their rights and freedoms.
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Third: Are there non-legislative administrative entities responsible for matters of human
rights and public freedoms in the Kingdom of Bahrain?:
Thenatureofthelawsisthattheyincludetheadministrativeauthoritiesresponsible
for their implementation. For instance, the Ministry of Interior deals with the
Law on Assemblies and Marches and implements it administratively, the Law on
homelessness and begging is administratively linked to the work of the Ministry
of Social Development and the Ministry of the Interior, the law on pre-marriage
medical examination is under the Ministry of Health, and so each legislative act
shall be implemented by an administrative (non-legislative) entity that ensures its
enforcement based on the principle of separation of powers.
King of the Kingdom of Bahrain issued a royal command to create the National
Foundation for Human Rights, which is concerned with developing the national
strategy for human rights in Bahrain. It is an institution established in accordance
with the Paris Principles on national institutions for human rights.
The existence of Directors of Grievances at the level of the Kings Cabinet, to
receive complaints from citizens about various issues.
Theroleofcivil-societyorganizationsinprotectinghumanrights,receivinghuman
right complaints.The Kingdom of Bahrain, a small country in space and population,
has more than 6 associations concerned with rights and freedoms of individuals as
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well as rights associations concerned with women, the disabled and children.
AdepartmentforcomplaintsandHumanRightswasestablishedintheMinistryof
Interior to receive complaints from citizens and residents on any abuse or excesive
force by the security forces that impinged upon their rights and freedoms. And
decisions are taken regarding such complaints, including military trial through the
department of military courts in the Ministry of Interior. Several decisions were
issued against security force officers who exceeded their authority or power limits,
including terms of imprisonment.
3 - Different offenses according to the International Law of Human Rights:
In the medical field: from extrapolation of Chapter four titled (monitored violations),
we find that what occurred of violations that conflict with accordance to the rules of the
international human rights law as follows:
ThePrinciplesofMedicalEthicsRelatedtotheRoleofHealthPersonnel,whichwas
approved and published by the General Assembly of the United Nations 37/194 of
18 December 1982, states in the Principle 2: It is a gross contravention of medical
ethics, as well as an offence under applicable international instruments, for health
personnel, particularly physicians, to engage, actively or passively, in acts which
constitute participation in, complicity in, incitement to or attempts to commit torture
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or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment..Principle 5 states:It
is a contravention of medical ethics for health personnel, particularly physicians,
to participate in any procedure for restraining a prisoner or detainee unless such
a procedure is determined in accordance with purely medical criteria as being
necessary for the protection of the physical or mental health or the safety of the
prisoner or detainee himself, of his fellow prisoners or detainees, or of his guardians,
and presents no hazard to his physical or mental health.
Thereisnodoubtthattheviolationsthathavebeenmonitoredconstituteadrastic
departure for all international norms and conventions, in particular the following
articles of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural rights, and
in accordance with Article (12) item (1, which states, The States Parties to the
present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health; and Article 15, Item 2, which
states, The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve
the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for the conservation,
the development and the diffusion of science and culture..
In the field of education: Extrapolating from Chapter Four, we find the criminal acts of
outlaws to be in complete conflict with international agreements on human rights, as
follows:
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ViolationofthecoretextsoftheConventionontheRightsoftheChild,inparticular
Article 28 / 1, paragraph (e, 28 / 2) of the Convention, and item (2) of the Convention
for the Protection of Children, which states the following:
States Parties recognize the right of the child to education, and with a view to
achieving this right progressively and on the basis of equal opportunity, they shall,
in particular:
1. (e) Take measures to encourage regular attendance at schools and the reduction
of drop-out rates. 2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that
school discipline is administered in a manner consistent with the childs human
dignity and in conformity with the present Convention.
2. Article (10) item (3) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, which states:
Special measures of protection and assistance should be taken on behalf of
all children and young persons without any discrimination for reasons of
parentage or other conditions. Children and young persons should be protected
from economic and social exploitation. Their employment in work harmful to
their morals or health or dangerous to life or likely to hamper their normal
development should be punishable by law. States should also set age limits
below which the paid employment of child labour should be prohibited and
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punishable by law. Article (32) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
states:
1.StatesPartiesrecognizetherightofthechildtobeprotectedfromeconomic
exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or
to interfere with the childs education, or to be harmful to the childs health or
physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.
2.StatesPartiesshalltakelegislative,administrative,socialandeducational
measures to ensure the implementation of the present article. To this end, and
having regard to the relevant provisions of other international instruments,
States Parties shall in particular:

Also, Article (8) item (1) paragraph (d) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights stated that the right to strike is guaranteed, provided that it is exercised
under the laws of the country concerned. This article excludes members of the armed
forces, police, or government departments..
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Chapter Seven:
Legal and political dimensions to
the arrival of the Peninsula Shield
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The Gulf Cooperation Council maintain that they intervened using the Peninsula Sheild
based on security concerns, and not for military reasons. This intervention was based on
the numerous legal joint security and military agreements between the the council members,
accumulated for 30 years, whjich are based on the principles of interdependent security and
unified destinies given the collective responsibility of maintaining security and stability,
as the security of the individual GCC countries cannot be divided. The most important of
these principles follow.
1 The political principles: Security concerns were the main reason-though undeclared- for
the establishment of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which was formed in order to provide
a collective security umbrella, allowed members to confront regional and international
threats (much like NATO). And although the GCC statute has not expressly provided
security cooperation in order to avoid any objections by other regional powers/ However,
this mission remained the primary concern of of the Coucil during the past three decades,
because of the continutation of most threats, albeit in different forms, such as the cases of
Iran and Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the emergence of other challenges both regionally
and internationally like terrorism, piracy, migration issues, and money laudering.
In addition to those threats are the dangers of sectarianism, suffered by many of the GCC
countries, especially Bahrain, after the Shiia escalation in Iraq after the fall of Saddam
Husseins regime, and under the American occupation, which encourages the ambitions of
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Shia forces in GCC countries, driven by Iran in order to rally the Shia in the region in
support of its bannder through Irans project of the Shia Crecent which is supposed to
include the Shia in the Fugl, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Therefore the goal is to destabilize
the security situation in the GCC countries, especially clear in light of the analysis of
Tehrans developing designs aimed to attack the security of Gulf states and their stability,
aiming utilize the current regional and international trends, known as democratic shift
revolutions to achieve their own purposes on the Arab world, to bring about changes in
the Gulf regimes under the pretence of democracy, starting with Bahrain.
- What affirms such assessments is the position of the Shia opposition in Bahrain,
which has rejected all initiatives for dialogue made by the political leadership in
the country, the latest such initiative having been put forward by the Crown Prince
on 13/3/2011, where he vowed to respond to each claim the opposition raised. The
opposition rejected and then escalated the crisis by establishing barriers in front of
the Financial Harbour and on the Cooperation Council bridge, and the closing
of King Faisal road, and the transfer of violence and riots to the educational
building and the desecration of the University campus with the aim of completely
paralyzing the country. Coinciding with these events were political developments
with obvious implications, specifically when the National Unity Gathering
president declared on March 14, 2011 that the consultations on the national dialogue
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had reached a dead end with the decision of seven opposition political societies to
form a constituent assembly, of which the Bahraini government would not be part
of, and with their insistence to place conditions on the dialogue and discuss all the
principles and conditions before entering dialogue, and with the threat of Al-Wefaq
National Islamic Society president Ali Salman during a meeting that the Peninsula
Shield Force will be considered occupation forces in Bahrain, and he will require the
support of the Islamic Republic of Iran if the Shia in Bahrain are left exposed.
The fact is that the entry of the vanguard Peninsula Shield forces to Bahrain does
notThe truth is that the scene of the entrance of the vanguard of the Peninsula
Shield to Bahrain does not only reflect the clear cooperation and collaboration, as
far as it demonstrates the success of the Gulf Cooperation Council in what others
have yet to succeed, through expressing unity which they had never expressed and
seen through to success in the past, considering the following:
- That it came in response to the demands of the Gulf peoples to achieve security and
stability in this phase, which requires us all to stand together and to protect our gains
and prevent strife in order to acheive a better future.
- This resolutions sends a message that confirms the commitment of the Gulf
Cooperation Council to the covenants and agreements on security and collective
defense, which is one of the missions assigned to the GCC because of what some
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saw as a gap between decisions, agreements, strategies and plans signed between the
member states on one hand, and between the practice on the other hand, with weak
commitment to what had been agreed upon, and the placing of bilateral relations
above collective relations inside the GCC as an organization.
What is happening in Bahrain cannot be measured by what happened and is happening
in some Arab countries, and it is impossible to reproduce or use those experiences to
destabilize the security of a Gulf country that works to promote democracy among the
people and is committed to open new horizons for its citizens.
The Peninsula Shield Force that arrived in Bahrain is not a military power, but a symbolic
security power, signifying that the Council would not allow the situation in Bahrain to
deteriorate into a sectarian civil conflict, especially considering the sectarian tension that
reached its peak there.
2 - Legal Principles: The entry of the Peninsula Shield troops in Bahrain is in fulfillment
of the security agreement between the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab
Gulf States, and is a practical application of the joint defense agreement, which obliges all
the countries of the Council, at the request of one of its members, to give assistance and
support. This is what happened in the war of Kuwait liberation in 1990, and also occurred
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in 2003 when the defense and foreign ministers decided at a meeting in Jeddah to transfer
the Peninsula Shield Force to Kuwait during the Iraq war, at the request of Kuwait in the
event of any consequences that may result of a possible United States decision to strike
Iraq.About eight thousand fighters of the Peninsula Shield forces were deployed, equipped
with weapons of all types, tanks, artillery and advanced personnel carriers. Saudi Arabia
participated with about 3,300 troops of its size - on Kuwaiti territory before the start of the
war.
That Convention has identified rules, conditions and mechanisms of military support and
security for any of the countries of the Council. As Article (2) of the joint defense agreement
states: Member States consider that any attack on any of them is an attack on all of them
and any threat to one of them threatens them all.
Article Three states: Pursuant to the right of legitimate individual and collective defense, in
accordance with Article (51) of the Charter of United Nations, Member States are obliged to
proceed promptly to assist the State or States who are victims within the Gulf Cooperation
Council to take any necessary action including the use of military force to response to the
assault and restore legality, peace and security to the track and shall immediately notify
the League of Arab States and the Security Council about the occurrence of the abuse and
action taken.
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The intervention of these forces does not mean to impose control over the country, but will
work under the control of national forces in Bahrain, according to the agreements of the
Gulf Cooperation Council, states: any Gulf force that enters one of the Council countries
passed its leadership to that country itself, and the shield forces in Bahrain will secure
vital facilities and institutions in the country, fearing the wrath of the protesters, leaving the
task of dealing with the demonstrators to the Bahraini national forces, so as not to cause
any strife or crisis.
The fact that these legal considerations associated primarily with another important issue,
which is the unity of the Gulf, and the inevitability of the transition to overall unity that
enhances national security of the (GCC) in a world of interactions, rapid changes, volatile
environment, filled with international and regional covetous parties in the context of
intensifying conflicts of interests, particularly the sources of energy.
Despite the successful achievements of the GCC that shows in the formulation of the
unprecedented experience of Arab unity; where the Council was able to achieve most of
the objectives, which was established and contained in the primary charter, both on the
level of cooperation and coordination of the (GCC) in all areas, or at the level of support
for joint Arab action, by multiple trials circulating the idea of unity in the region, and
its support for Arab issues as an effective regional organization. The careful reading of
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what was achieved by the Council on the road to comprehensive unity, indicates that the
Integrated Gulf March is still less than the weight and success factors available to it that the
idea of its establishment was launched from, and lacking other more successful regional
experiences as the experience of the European Union, especially in the field of security,
where the cooperation level is still limited, because of the absence of clear applicable
strategies and dealing with security challenges, and the weakness of the efforts of security
cooperation and coordination in reality, and differences in identifying and prioritizing the
challenges in accordance to the vision of each country.
However, the immediate response from GCC countries to Bahrains request for military
support, and the previous huge financial Gulf support of the Kingdom, confirms that the
countries of the Council are determined to complete the Gulf unity, and they have become
more convinced that the two regional and international modes represent important factors
in the decision-making, and that the continuity of the existing condition is not in its interest,
and that the laxity of this Council would make its countries vulnerable to the movement to
attract strong, active, regional parties, and that they can no longer look at the future, each
on their own, even if they did so in many cases, as the future of every country became
related to the other to the extent that it became fateful .
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Leaders of the Peninsula Shield Force
Chapter Eight:
Field and political
developments of the crisis
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15-2
Field events Political Developments
Many demonstrators came out in an unauthorized
demonstration of numerous villages - the most
outstanding, AlDeih, Karzakan and Nuwaidrat,
where demonstrators threw stones at security
forces,wounding three policemen who were
seriously injured.
- Rioters protested in the Pearl Roundabout
which is illegal. It included inspection of
passers-by on the field and the setting up of
tents in the middle of the Roundabout and
in the surrounding area, and threatened the
owners of nearby shops who refused to shut
down.
- Six masked men belonging to the opposition
Shia attacked a security patrol. Rallies
are illegal in several areas in the northern
governorate of the Shia majority
- His Majesty King Hamad
bin Isa Al Khalifa, spoke to
the people and focused on:
1.Assigned Deputy Prime
Minister Salim Alerayedh to
form a committee to determine
the causes of recent events.
2.His Majesty the King offered
condolences to families of
the dead civilians and security
men.
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3. Asked the legislature to
consider acts of incitement,
chaos, and to propose
legislation to preserve the
rights and freedoms of
individuals and safeguard
security.
4.Comply with the law for
peaceful demonstrations to
ensure the freedom of opinion
and expression.
5. Further reform.
- Statement by the Minister
of Interior Sheikh Rashid
bin Abdulla Al Khalifa is as
follows:
- Reservation on the perpetrators
of both death cases.
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- Declaration of dealing with
the committee formed by
His Majesty the King for the
purpose of the investigation
into the causes of the events
of the chaos and incitement
by the opposing citizens.
- Provide warm condolences
to two dead civilians and two
dead security men.
- Security men, keen to show
restraint to prevent accidents.
- There are no hassles on the
streets of Bahrain.
- Must stay calm and act
rationally in all situations.
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- The protesters in the GCC Roundabout
(Pearl roundabout) continued protesting and
the slogans changed from calling for reforms
to overthrowing the regime.
- Rioters issued a statement to overthrow the
Bahraini regime.
- The protesters attacked an Al-Arabiya crew
by beating them, and seized their tape. They
also attacked a police patrol.
- The security force (Ministry of Interior)
crowd dispersed the unauthorized protest
in Pearl Roundabout in a legal and civilized
manner.
- Defense Force announces movement in some
areas of the capital to maintain the security,
- U.S. State Department
emphasizes the need for
restraint by the protesters.
- Weffaq Society, which
represents the largest Bahraini
parliamentary bloc (all Of
the Shia sect), continued to
suspend its membership of the
House of Deputies of Bahrain
for the second consecutive
day.
- Cancellation of two sessions
of the Shura, and Deputies
Councils due to the recent
events.
- Wefaq block officially
resigns from the House of
Deputies.
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and issued appeals to citizens to stay away
from gathering in the vital areas.
- Ministry of Interior statement as follows:
1. Security forces asked the protesters to leave
Pearl Roundabout before dealing with them
to leave, and entered from one side, leaving
the rest of the exits of the Roundabout for the
departures.
2. 50 of the wounded security force men, of
whom two were in the hospital as a result
of their exposure to attacks with knives and
swords. One of the crowd was run over by
one of the security force men intentionally.
Also found was four firearms and live 9 mm
ammunition, swords, knives, and the flags of
Hezbollah.
Two security force men were stabbed with
swords.
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3. Arrested was one of the crowd who was
intentionally ran over with his car one of the
security force men, causing several injuries,
resulting in the amputation of the fingers of
one hand.
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- About 70,000 thousand Bahrainis from all
sects and religions come out in a massive
march in support of the king in front of the
AlFateh Mosque.
- Tens of thousands of Bahrainis issued calls
against foreign interference in internal affairs
(Iran), and express their pride, led by Al-
Khalifa of Bahrain.
- Ministry of Interior denies the use of
helicopters for shooting demonstrators and
preventing ambulances from serving the
injured.
- His Majesty the King
assigned the Crown Prince
to talk with all parties in
Bahrain.
- Royal guidance to the
Minister of Justice to call
Wefaq block to stay in the
House of Deputies.
- His Highness the Crown
Prince ordered the withdrawal
of security forces and stressed
that the withdrawal and calm
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of the street is the beginning
of collective dialogue.
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- Many people call through the official local
newspapers in Bahrain to cut off phone service
(plaque
Perry and iPhone) being the source of intrigue
and rumors, especially in light of misuse by
the terrorists for this service in advocacy and
incitement to overthrow the government.
- Withdrawal of the Bahrain Defence Force
vehicles located in the initial concentration
areas, including the Pearl Roundabout.
- Rioters and chaos make Salmaniya hospital
courtyard a gathering place with lit candles.
- A major fire in a factory for fabric in Sitra
industrial area, and it was proven it was done by
a group of terrorists from Sitra (an area located
- A leader of the opposition
Abdul-Jalil Khalil (a member
of Wefaq parliamentary block)
demanded the resignation of
the government before any
negotiations.
- Sheikh Issa Qassem (the
religious reference of the
Shia community in
Bahrain) announced that
there is no dialogue with
the government until the
resignation of the government
in fueling the Shia community
in an attempt to exacerbate
things.
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in the Middle Governorate, all Shia).
- Vandals strike back once again to the Pearl
Roundabout.
- Teachers Association struck, with a number
of teachers refused from going to school.
- The General Federation of Bahrain Labor
Unions called for general strike, which
resulted in unrest in various other public and
private sectors.
- His Highness the Crown
Prince confirms that Bahrain
will begin a new phase where
we will look into our issues in
all sincerity and honesty. And
he sends his Condolences to
the families for their losses,
and calls for restraint, and to
extend their communication,
and cooperation, and ask
everyone to be calm and avoid
temptation.
- Start of the dialogue between
the Crown prince and some
associations, and political
and economic figures,
without the participation
of representatives of the
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Wefaq Society and the
representatives of the crowd
at GCC roundabout (Pearl)
although they were invited to
attend.
20-2 - Continuation of sabotage and chaos in Pearl
Roundabout for a second day in a row.
- Text messages and websites continue to
insult the Prime Minister His Royal Highness
Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa by the
instigators of the chaos.
- One of the sabotages in GCC roundabout
(Pearl roundabout) was injured after a quarrel
with a number of people because he was
accused of sexually harassing girls who were
participating in the chaos in the Roundabout.
- His Highness the Prime
Minister runs the weekly
regular session of the Council
of Ministers and denies rumors
that circle around the mandate
of Sheikh Mohammed bin
Mubarak commissioned to
form a new government.
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21-2 - The death of a policeman as a result of
entanglement in the past events when one of
the opposition runs over him in his car during
the clashes.
21th of February
- Gulf and international
support for the initiative of
the national dialogue with
all parties, led by His Royal
Highness the Crown Prince.
- Secretary General of the
United Nations Ban Ki-moon
stresses the importance of
the call for dialogue with all
parties.
- Ministry of Education
announces starting to register
volunteers to work in schools
to meet the shortfall of
teachers caused by the refusal
of some of the teachers to be
on the job, and many of them
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were in the GCC roundabout.
- Britain calls on all parties to
respond with a good initiative
for a national dialogue.
- Bahraini Foreign Minister
asserts there are attempts to
connect with the Shia Wefaq
Society to start the dialogue.
- The King ordered the release
of a number of convicts in
criminal cases such as murder
and dishonesty, and ordered a
stop in the judicial proceedings
against the others. (Mostly of
the Shia sect)
- Cancellation of the opening
race of Bahrain in World
Championship Formula 1,
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because of the events in the
roundabout, which caused an
economic jolt to the economy
of Bahrain.
- Held a mass meeting a
rally of national unity, at
Al-Fateh Mosque consisting
of all sectors of the Bahraini
community to confirm
the loyalty to the political
leadership, which numbered
approximately 300,000
Bahraini citizens. Sheik
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the president of the National
Unity Gathering, a Sunni
Sheikh, who emphasized the
National Unity Gathering
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was a statement to hold on to
the legitimacy of the existing
regime of the government, and
that the countrys security and
stability are the top priority
which cannot be bargained.
22-2 - A large march in support of His Highness the
Prime Minister in Riffa.
- Emission of an illegal demonstration in which
about 30,000 citizens, at the invitation of the
extreme Hassan Mushaima, moved toward the
center of the capital, Manama, for the purpose
of paralyzing the situation in the capital.
- The King forgave 25 who were accused of
attempting to overthrow the regime.
- King confirms that the public
squares are not the appropriate
place for dialogue and calls
everyone to dialogue, and not
miss the opportunity.
- Prime Minister warns the
youth from being drawn into
(this makes no sense?) the
strife, division, and sectarian
devotion.
- Crown Prince met with
opposition figures and
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continues to meet the leaders
of the political societies.
- Russia supports the dialogue
called by the King to discuss
all issues in Bahrain.
- News about the return of
the extremist Shia Hassan
Meshamea, from London
via Beirut, where he met with
leaders of Hezbollah.
- Ministry of Education
announces opening the door
to volunteers to fill the teacher
shortage due to the absence
of many teachers who were
involved in the work of chaos
and strike.
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- The protesters continued militating the
Shia community and taking them to the GCC
Roundabout (Pearl roundabout).
- Minister of Defense receives members of the
U.S. Congress and said that there are a few
radical groups of Haqq and Waffa who
attacked security men on February 14 with
sharp tools and incendiary devices that killed
one person. The general trend was to solve the
problem calmly and wisely.
Pointing out that army troops moved as a
result of what was revealed of the acquisition
of some of the participants in the protest on the
Roundabout of firearms, and the Crown Prince
pulled the troops in order to avoid congestion
sectarian. (this sentence is impossible to edit)
- Royal Cabinet announced
that Friday, February 25 is
a day of mourning for the
sons of Bahrain, military and
civilian.
- Lebanese authorities arrest
opposition Bahraini Hassan
Mushaima on his return to
Bahrain on the issuance of
a warrant for his arrest from
Interpol.
- German Foreign Minister
said: Bahrain is on the right
track and called on all parties
to participate in the dialogue.
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- King stresses in a meeting
with the U.S.Chief of Staff
that a Special Committee is in
the process of investigate
ing the recent unfortunate
events that occurred in the
Kingdom of Bahrain, because
pf the concern for the safety
of all citizens and to find an
explanation of the facts.
And U.S.Chief of Staff U.S.
pays tribute to the great strides
and the great plan of Bahrain
in the reform project.
25-2 - Secretary General of the Islamic National
Weffaq Association, Sheikh Ali Salman,
announced before the protesters in the Pearl
- President of the Council
Secular Sheikh Issa Qassem
said in his speech that the
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roundabout the need to adhere to their
positions and not to leave the roundabout.
dialogue should waste time,
and not confuse the demands
or absorb the anger of the
street, (This also doesnt work
or flow in any way. What is
being said here?) no dialogue
without introductions and
preconditions and principles
of the Herald approved
by the state. He thanked
the protesters at the Pearl
roundabout adherence and
they did not budge.
- Ministerial amendment
includes Ministry of Housing
to be carried out by Majeed
AlAlawee; Ministry of Health
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carried out by Nizar Baharna;
Ministry of labor carried
out by Jameel Humaidan;
the Council of Ministers
affairs, carried out by Kamal
Ahmed; and Minister of
Energy, carried out by Abdul
Hussain Mirza. These new
ministers are all from the
Shia community, with the
exception of Kamal Ahmed.
- A civil event is preparing
to raise a lawsuit against the
Teachers Association, which
instigated the strike and
forced the children to join in
the demonstrations.
- Wefaq calls for a radical
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change in the government,
not only changing some of
the ministers.
- King orders the reduction
of 25 percent of the monthly
premium for housing
projects.
- Prime Minister thanked the
volunteers to fill the shortage
of school teachers. He stressed
that the country appreciates
the gesture.
- Minister of Foreign Affairs
confirms that the security of
Bahrain is part of the regions
stability.
- Hassan Mushaima arrived
in Bahrain.
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- Washington commends
the initiative of a national
dialogue. Chief of Staff John
Kirby, that the chairman
of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen,
said during his meeting
with His Majesty the King
and His Royal Highness the
Crown Prince, that the U.S.A
will maintain a military
commitment with the Bahrain
Defense Force. Mullen
thanked Bahraini leaders for
their balanced style in dealing
with the crisis in Bahrain.
- The King emphasized,
during his visit to the General
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Command of the Defense
Force, that the national
dialogue is for consensus
and national unity, which
will have positive impact for
everyone.
- Human Rice (is that his
name?) calls for a public and
independent investigation
about the events in Bahrain.
- King emphasize, during
his visit to the Ministry of
Interior, that he is confident
that after dealing with the
unfortunate events that have
passed over the country,
every citizen will take all his
- Extremist Shia protesters formed a human
chain to abstract (what word do we want here?)
the holding of the Shura Council session.
- A number of young protesters went from the
Pearl roundabout to the diplomatic area in the
capital, and gathered outside the Ministry of
Justice and the Attorney General to demand
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the release of the remaining detainees in
the prisons of Bahrain. That disrupted the
functioning of the judicial authorities.
rights.(this needs some kind of
reworking to understand what
the translation means??)
- The Crown Prince calls
for the immediate start of
a comprehensive national
dialogue, and to stop harming
the interests of everyone. He
stressed that the
messages will be sent to all
related parties to prepare their
points of view, so they can be
part the of national dialogue,
to ensure the greatest measure
of success.
- Obama welcomes the
Ministerial amendments in
Bahrain.
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- His Highness the Prime
Minister confirm that he
served the nation and will
remain faithful to it, and will
always serve the interests of
his people.
(Again this is confused) and
if we are to disagree should not
be room for discrimination,
and the necessity of resort to
dialogue.
The Kings wife confirms that
the unity of the community is
necessary for the protection
of Bahrain and its people.
- In a blatant interference
in the internal affairs of the
Kingdom of Bahrain, the
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extremist Shia Iraqi cleric
Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad
Mehdi Alasfi, said that the
regime in Bahrain practiced
injustice against the people
and called on Arab and
Islamic countries to support
the demands of the gatherings
in the Pearl roundabout.
- Shura Council decides
to convene an exceptional
session next Wednesday to
discuss the events taking
place in the country.
- Eighteen of Wefaq Deputies
applied for officially
resignation from the
parliament, just days after
their withdrawal from it.
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- Wefaq Shia Society issued a
statement stressing that it will
not participate in the dialogue
unless all of its preconditions
demands were implemented,
including the dismissal of the
government.
- Ministry of Health announces
at the first meeting of the
new Health Minister Nizar
Baharna, the formation of a
committee to investigate into
the ministry dealings with the
recent events, specifically,
what happened in Salaimaniya
hospital, in coordination with
the Associations of doctors/
Physicians and Dentists
- Bahrain TV cameraman being expelled from
the Pearl roundabout while trying to cover the
events in the roundabout.
- In front of the Bahrain Financial Harbor,
hundreds of protestors sat to paralyze the
commercial life in the Kingdom. In addition,
the saboteurs have called to start a civil
general strikes to put more pressure on the
government and the Sunni sect. One of the
protestors leaders said during a speech in
the pearl roundabout in center of the capital
Manama that strikes and civil protests are in
the context of the expanding the pressure on
the government. He added that the closure of
all roads and main streets in the capital is also
a way to force the system to listen to these
demands and work to implement them.
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- A student was severely beaten by the
teacher and students at the School of AlAhd
AlZaher in Hamad Town after there were
chanted by some students against the regime
and against Bahrains Sunni community.
- Ministry of Education
confirms numerous
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acts in several schools, due
to students in a number of
those schools especially
secondary schools resorting
to strikes inside the school
yards or marching in rallies
outside the school shouting
political slogans against the
Sunni community and the
government, indifferent to
the conduct of the day school,
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- Arab confederation
announces its support of
national dialogue in Bahrain.
- Saudi Arabia, and Qatar
confirm their full support to
Bahrain.
- Ministry of Education forms
a committee to investigate
the events of AL Ahd
AL Zahir School, so all
those responsible are held
responsible, in accordance
with the approved systems
and take appropriate action
is takedn against each person
proven to be involved in
these events, regardless of
position or standing in the
- Students from the School Isa Town and
Hamad Town continue to participate in the
political marches and make statements against
the regime
- Tens of thousands of vandals continue to
demonstrate in the capital, Manama, in order
to topple the government.
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community.
- Association of political
opposition in Bahrain which
are; Wefaq national Islamic
Islamic National Accord,
National Brotherhood,
Progressive Forum, National
Democratic Action, Islamic
Action, the National Rally,
Announced their statement
which was carried by Wefaq
Association on its website,
and which stated the following
with respect to its own terms
prior to their participation in
the dialogue:
-Create a new constitution
established by an elected
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constituent Council to a
constitutional monarchy and
an elected Government.
-Dismiss the government and
form an interim government
whose mission is to achieve a
political and security dtente
rapidly so as to create a
suitable platform
of serious and fruitful national
dialogue. We reject reduction
of this important demand of
the masses to a limited cabinet
reshuffle, which is a repetition
of previous attempts, which
did not provide a formal or
real alternative to our people.
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the National Democratic
Alliance has warned Bahraini
authorities of the consequences
of failure to comply with
the demands of the masses,
particularly the resignation
of the government, stressing
that opposition will escalate
in this case.
He stressed that the authority
should immediately dismiss
the government, which does
not represent the people of
Bahrain. He said that the march
yesterday is an introduction to
the first steps, escalated by the
opposition, and that a march
to topple the government will
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be launched on Friday, and a
protest to prevent the meeting
of the Ministers Cabinet at
his official premises. This
will be an escalation of the
parties opposition.
- More than 350,000
thousand Bahrainis from all
denominations answered the
national unity call to gather
in a massive march and rally
in Al-Fateh Mosque.
- Pakistans Foreign Ministry
praised Bahrains progress,
and the invitation to
dialogue.
- Saudi leadership, and the
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rest of the Gulf Cooperation
Council countries (GCC)
renewed their support to the
Crown Prince of Bahrain.
They stated that they will help
Bahrain to restore its stability
given that the security and
stability of Bahrain is the
security of Saudi Arabia,
and the rest of the GCC
countries.
- The Ministry of Education
announced the start of taking
action against those found
to be involved in disrupting
the educational process.
This occurred in light of the
- Placed a number of citizens and students in
front of the Ministry of Education, refusing
any dialogue with officials at the ministry.
The protestors raised the banners and chanted
political slogans. This protest caused a traffic
jam in Al Estiqlal road and also prevented
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a large number of staff from attending their
work in the ministry.
- A number of university students went out in an
unauthorized march and walked around some
of the Colleges of the University of Bahrain in
Sakhir. This caused clashes between students
in one of the colleges, because of sectarian
chants initiated by the youth of the opposition,
but the university administration intervened
and quickly ended the matter.
- A fight took place between a number of
Hamad Town citizens because of the thrills
of a sectarian group of saboteurs.
continued participation of
some students in random
marches, and pressure on the
students by extremist Shia
to create chaos and gather in
the streets raising political
and sectarian slogans,
despite their young age. This
occurred in violation of the
Convention on the Rights of
Children
- U.S.A Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton in an initial
statement included details of
the efforts by Iran to intervene
in the ongoing popular
protests that occurred three
months ago and overthrew
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the Governments of Egypt
and Tunisia:
1. Iran is seeking either directly
or through intermediaries
to communicate with the
opposition in Bahrain, Egypt
and Yemen in an attempt to
influence.
2. She added that they are aware
of Irans communications with
the opposition in Bahrain,
and they are very involved in
the opposition movements in
Yemen.
3. She told a committee of
federal spending in the Senate
Iran is doing everything it can
to influence the outcome of
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events there, especially since
they are using Hezbollah to
connect to the allies in the
Hamas movement, in turn,
communicate with allies in
Egypt.
4. And confirmed that directly
or through intermediaries, they
seek tirelessly to influence
events with a very active
foreign policy. And the United
States in an attempt to address
the Iranian movements,
establishes diplomatic and
other contacts with opposition
groups in the Middle East and
North Africa.
The task was delicate, and most
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people want us to help them
but do not want us to play a
primary role so the challenge
is the way we deliver the help
they require without seeming
as if we want to control.
5. She stressed that Iranians
do not have many friends,
but they are trying to get closer
to new friends and indicated
that it requires a sustained
effort by the United States to
reduce the influence of Iran,
adding that the U.S eeded
resources for the movement
of the American diplomats
and officials,
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their skills. Clinton pointed out
that Iran is trying to increase
its influence, although it is not
a natural ally of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt, it has
supported Hamas in Gaza
on border with Egypt for a
long time.
- The Bahraini opposition
provided a political paper to
the Crown Prince that included
the protesters demands,
particularly the governments
resignation and political
reforms, outlining plans to
prepare a new constitution
for the country through
demonstrations and protests.
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They will continue demanding
political and constitutional
reforms in Bahrain, until the
Crown Prince commits to
the implementation of the
demands and conditions as
outlined before entering into
dialogue. After the delivery of
the paper, tens of thousands
gathered in front of the
headquarters of the Ministry
of the Interior in the capital,
Manama, chanting slogans
demanding overthrowing the
regime. Security forces did
not intervene to break up the
protest.
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parliamentary block confirmed
the support for the initiative
of His Royal Highness,
Shaikh Salman bin Hamad
Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, of
the comprehensive national
dialogue according to the
High Royal commission,
hoping to start immediately
in this constructive dialogue
and genuine participation of
all spectrums of the Bahraini
society. This would happen
without preconditions and in
accordance with a specific
timetable, for the rule of security
and stability in the country,
and continue the process
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of reform, modernization,
political, economic and
overall development, in the
best interest of the nation and
all citizens.
- Secretary Assistant of
Foreign Ministry of USA
for Near Eastern Affairs,
Jeffrey Feltman, demanded
an acceleration of the national
dialogue called for by the
Crown Prince Sheikh Salman
bin Hamad Al Khalifa,
without preconditions, and to
do so quickly with concrete
and substantial reforms and
that this process should be
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- South Korean Foreign
Ministry said in his statement
today (Friday), that he hopes
for the return of stability and
peace in the Kingdom of
Bahrain. He praised the call
for a national dialogue with all
segments of Bahraini society,
and expressed the hope that
the dialogue will begin soon
in order to restore stability in
the Kingdom.
- Recession threatens the
Kingdoms business activities,
and economists warn of the
enormous losses, and claim
- Saboteurs organized demonstrations that
began in front of the Ministers cabinet and
moved toward the Pearl roundabout, while
others moved from the Ministry of Labor and
Al Estiqlal roundabout into a building for
Media Affairs commission. This took place
without any clashes with the security forces,
which maintained the safety of the saboteurs.
The first demonstration was organized by nine
political societies and was launched at four
in the afternoon in front of the gate near the
building of the Ministers Cabinet .and lasted
for an hour and a half.
- The oppositional political societies organized
an unlicensed march and protest in front
of the prime ministers building, where the
government holds their weekly meeting. The
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gathering began at six oclock in the morning,
and ended at 11:30am without any problems
or clashes with the security force men, who
were in the building in anticipation of any
security violations.
to respond to the initiative of
dialogue.
- The Minister of Justice
announces that the solution to
the crisis is remaining calm
and beginning a dialogue,
and not to exploit people as
negotiating chips.
- The president of the National
Unity Gathering, Sheikh
Abdul Latif Al Mahmoud,
stated that he supports the
constitutional monarchy, but
with compatibility between
the various parties.
- Khalil Marzouk, a member
of Wefaq parliamentary
- The political societies organized unlicensed
marches which led to severe traffic jams
obstructing the interests of citizens and
residents.
Bahrain radio and television received several
complaints from citizens and residents,
expressing their resentment of this practice
that led to the obstruction of their daily lives
and the disruption of their interests.
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- There occurred a clash with sticks and hands
in Hamad Town because of groups of masked
vandals.
block, said that the events
held by the opposition will
continue and increase at their
own pace.
- A scholar, Mohammad Ali
Hosseini, said that Iran turned
the Arab Shia in Bahrain,
Saudi Arabia and Yemen,
adding that Arabs today are
witnessing a strange and
exceptional escalation with
the position of the brothers
of the Shia in Bahrain and
eastern Saudi Arabia, Yemen
and even stateless in Kuwait.
He pointed out that there is
an intentional and specific
movement toward the
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achievement of certain goals.
- His Highness the Crown
Prince, confirms that
there is no solution except
through dialogue, which
must determine the national
consensus roof and themes,
and his ambition is not only
to do so unilaterally.
- The GCC affirmed that
the security of the Gulf
Cooperation Council
countries is unified and
interdependent, repeating
the Declaration and standing
firmly by Bahrain and the
Sultanate of Oman under
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protest movements. The
UAE Foreign Minister noted
that the regional conditions
were imposed on all in order
to strengthen cooperation.
- King expresses his aspiration
to take the initiative and work
with everyone in national
dialogue in otder to reach
common goals.
- The USA Embassy in the
Kingdom of Bahrain, said
the US officials met today
with a group of Bahraini
protesters and insisted
during the meeting that the
American point of view of in
the dialogue is an important
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point - to be a Bahraini with
solutions Made in Bahrain
- noting that it is difficult
to identify a set of results,
demands or conditions
before the dialogue. The
embassy stated that the U.S.A
government supports the
steps taken by the Bahraini
government to defuse tensions
and commends the initiative
of the Crown Princes pledge
to conduct a comprehensive
national dialogue.
- HH Sheikh Nasser Bin
Hamad, the President of the
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Committee president, stated
that dialogue is the appropriate
means for the current phase.
- Australia endorses and
supports the language of
dialogue issued by the
Crown.
- Russian ambassador
confirms Russian support
for the initiative of dialogue
called by His Highness the
Crown Prince.
- House of Deputies decided
to postpone the decision on
the letter of resignation of
the Wefaq Shia block of
the House of Deputies for
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- Tens of vandals contributed from Karbabad
and AlGhalaa villages, which are Shia
villages, in a massive unauthorized protest in
front of the Karbabad village entrance in
solidarity (thadhamonan) with the youth of
the pearl roundabout.
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two months pursuant to the
provisions of the Bylaws of
the House of Deputies.
- USA National Security
Adviser meets with the Crown
Prince and stresses the need
for rapid national dialogue
without preconditions.
- Wefaq block by its deputy,
Hassan AlAli is determined
to resign from the House
of Deputies in support of
the protest movements of
violence and the incident in
the street.
- The director of the United
Nations Media Centre in
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- An illegal march of law people exited from
the Pearl roundabout, to the building of the
General Directorate of Nationality, Passports
and Immigration and passed peacefully due to
the security forces despite the encroachment
of some saboteurs on the building and the
limited presence of riot police on the campus
and lack of establishment of metal barriers
with barbed wires on building walls.
- Vandals of detainees families in Maameer
organized an unlicensed protest at the entrance
of the village to demand the release of their
children accused in the case of so-called
killed in Maameer, a case where one of the
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security force men was deliberately killed by
some of the Shia sect in Maameer village.
The accuseds wives and children marched
in front lines raising photos of the convicted
and banners calling for the release.
Bahrain, Najib Friji, stated
that the Secretary-General
of the United Nations,
Ban Ki-moon, is closely
following the situation in
the Kingdom of Bahrain,
but is still concerned about
the intransigence of some
parties to engage in dialogue.
He calls on all parties in the
Kingdom of Bahrain to seize
the opportunity and engage in
broad dialogue on a peaceful
basis, with the participation
of political opposition and
civil society, for the benefit
of all the people of Bahrain.
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- The Second Deputy Speaker,
Sheikh Adel AlMuawda,
stressed that the national
dialogue called for by the
leadership in the Kingdom
of Bahrain today enjoys
wide international support,
and that the measures taken
by the State in dealing with
the status quo had won the
admiration and appreciation
of the world.
- The Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign
Affairs, Defense and National
Security in Al-Shura Council,
Salah Ali Mohammed,
stressed that it is important
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- A number of doctors and nurses protested
again with some of the Ministry of Healths
Shiite staff to demand the resignation of
Deputy Minister Abdulhai Al Awadi, the
deputy assistants, and executive management
representatives.
- Crowds of teachers (both male and female)
from the Shiite community protested in front
of the Ministry of Educations gate that
afternoon for the second time, demanding
radical changes in the Ministry as well as the
resignation of the government.
- Police blocked hundreds of Shia community
vandals from arriving in Riffa, fearing that
the march might cause clashes in Bahrain.
Hundreds began to demonstrate from Aali
with the majority of Shia towards Riffa.
While a number of policemen gathered near
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the clock tower in Riffa to protect the area
and prevent violence. About 200 police closed
the street with barbed wire, prompting most
of the vandals to return to their homes. Other
vandals tried to circumvent the barrier of
barbed wire to enter Riffa, where they clashed
with the people who were there.
to start the actual dialogue
between all parties without
precondition to give primacy
to the interests of the country
as a whole.
- Political associations
(Waad, Wefaq, Progressive
Forum, brotherhood, national
assembly, the National
Rally) agreed to engage in
the dialogue about a national
election of a constituent
assembly to represent all the
people of Bahrain.
- Many countries as well as
Islamic and Arab religious
leaders affirmed their full
support for the the national
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- Alaa Ibrahim Hamada (age 20), one of
the Sunni sect, was attacked while leaving the
Salmania Medical Center from the emergency
gate side.
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dialogue initiative launched
by His Majesty King Hamad
bin Isa Al Khalifa.
- A number of Shia saboteurs rallied an
unlicensed march started near the Seef Mall
and ended at the Pearl roundabout in Manama
in response to the appeal of the extremist
political societies (Wifaq, Waad, Amal Islamic
gathering, Islamic National Accord, National
Brotherhood, Progressive Forum, National
Democratic Action, Islamic Action, the
National Rally)
demanding of overthrowing the regime, and
the 2002 Constitution.
- A demonstration was called by vandals in
the Pearl roundabout after they changed the
national flag, by adding seven triangles to the
original five symbolizing the five pillars of
Islam, so that the 12 triangles would symbolize
the 12 Amams of the Shia sect. They chanted
slogans demanding the over throw of the
regime. The march began at three in the
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afternoon in the Malikia village and passed
through Karzakhan and Saddad leading to
the Alsafria Royal Palace, where they were
welcomed with water and dates.
- Crown Prince Salman bin
Hamad Al Khalifa informed
the reporters traveling with the
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert
Gates that he supportes a
referendum on any agreement
reached with the opposition
through national dialogue.
- The Crown Prince stated that
the government had agreed to
seven principles of dialogue,
including: Parliament having
full powers, the Government
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- Hundreds of saboteurs closed the main road
leading to the Bahrain Financial Harbour,
a major commercial area, which stopped
most activities in the region violated citizens
rights to use the road, and prevented access
to hospitals, the airport and places of work.
Security forces arrived at the scene to disperse
the outlaws.
- A man from Bangladesh was killed and 14
others of different Asian nationalities were
wounded due to violence by a group of young
protesters from the Shia community
- A member of the Force Directorate was
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kidnapped and beated by unknown persons
in Saraya 2 in Saar in the Northern
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representing the will of the
people, fairly drawn electoral
districts, naturalization, and
opposition to financial and
administrative corruption.
- The General Secretary of the
GCC Cooperation Council,
Abdulrahman Al-Attiyah,
assisted supporting the GCC
countries to the absolute
leadership of the Kingdom of
Bahrain and its people.
- The King called for everyone
at the table to engage in a
dialogue of good faith.
- A statement issued by the
French Senate expressed
concern about the situation
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- Vanguard of Peninsula Shield forces arrive
in the Kingdom of Bahrain,
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- Bahrain recalls its ambassador
to Iran as a result of the Iranian
statement, a blatant interference
in the internal affairs of
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- His Majesty the King issued a royal decree
declaring a state of national safety for three
months.
- The arrival of the Kuwaiti forces to Bahrain to
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- A large group of young Shi rioters, estimated
in the hundreds, attacked the home of Colonel
and former National Security officer Adel
Fleifel in Saar, stabbing a security guard with
a sharp weapon and firing shots at the house
that forced two other guards to pull the injured
man inside.
in Manama, and called for
constructive dialogue between
the authorities of the Kingdom
of Bahrain and political forces.
- The seven political associations
agreed to enter into a dialogue
with the government according
to the principles announced
by His Highness the Crown
Prince.
- The White House said yesterday
that the United States does not
consider the arrival of the Saudi
security forces an invasion.
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participate in maintaining security and order, and
the arrival of the joint Peninsula Shield forces to
maintain security in Bahrain.
- Death of a member of the public security force
dealing with rioters in Almaamir after being
deliberately run over by a car.
- Security patrols were under fire by a group of
rioters using automatic weapons in the Burree
district, with no injuries.
- Attacks on security men resulted in one killed,
and 37 wounded.
Bahrain.
- House of Deputies approves
the request of the questioning of
the Minister of Health because
of the inhuman events that took
place in Salmania hospital.
- U.S.A Foreign Secretary: All
parties in Bahrain must begin
the dialogue, and Bahrain has
the right to ask for help from
the Gulf countries.
- The Ministry of Education
announced the closure of all
public and private schools,
kindergartens and institutions
of higher education, both
government and private,
from Wednesday until
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- The Ministry of Interior announced that
police forces reached the GCC roundabout
(Pearl roundabout), noting that all the
demonstrators had begun to withdraw.
- Vandals in the GCC roundabout burned a
number of tents to impede the movement of
the police.
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- Chaos from the rioting mobs prevented
ambulances from leaving or returning to
Salmania Hospital.
- The Bahraini security forces cleared the
SMC (Salmania medical center) of protesters,
and removed their tents. This caused the
disruption of medical services there.
- Another policeman died of his wounds after
he was run over by a demonstrators car in
Sitra.
- General Command of the Bahrain Defence
Force confirms start of a return to normal
life, and that it will take all measures and
procedures necessary to establish security
and public order to preserve the nation and
citizens.
- The security forces arrested instigators of
the violence and vandalism, including Hassan
Mushaima and Ibrahim Sharif and Abdul
further notice, the closure of
these institutions includes,
students and members of the
administrative, educational
and technical authorities.
- Former Minister of Health
the head of the Shura Councils
Services Committee Nada
Haffadh, and head of the
Legislative and Legal Affairs
committee Hadi Halwachi,
and the member Muhammad
Baqir al-Hasan Radhi, and the
member Nasser Al-Mubarak
resigned from the membership
of the Shura Council, who are
from the Shia community,
and the Minister of Housing
Majeed Al Alawi who is Shia
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- The Bahrain Defense Force announced the
reduction of the curfew period 4pm - 4am to
8pm - 4am. in the SEEF area.
- The arrest of an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Ali
Akri,,as the mastermind of sectarian control
on the SMC, and the appointment of a doctor,
Colonel Abdulrahman Saleh Bouali director
of the SMC.
- The General Command of the Bahrain
Defence Force announced in its statement
No. (5) with reference to the Proclamation
No. (4) concerning the imposition of curfew,
the curfew hours in the area between the
- The King toured the financial
district of the Seef area to
check the continuity of work
in addition to state institutions
and ministries in the area.
- The head of the World
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Scholars, Sheikh Dr. Yusuf
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sectarian revolution, adding
that the un peaceful revolution
makes the involved people
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Wahab Hussein and Abdul Jalil Singeece and
Hassan AlHadad.
also broke with the government.
In addition, 12 judges of
the Jaafari courts (Shiite)
announced their resignation to
support the protest.
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Financial Harbor and Sheikh Isa bin Salman
Al Khalifa Bridge, from 8pm to 4am, until
further notice.
- The authorities remove the rotor of the GCC
roundabout (Pearl roundabout), in order to
prepare and expand the road into a street with
four-way light signals because of the crowding
of vehicles in the area.
- Shia vandals attacked Sunni worshipers at
a mosque in Hamad Town.
such as thugs compared to
those who came out in Egypt
and Tunisia.
- Minister of Foreign Affairs
announces that the new units
from the Peninsula Sheild Force
will reach Bahrain to protect
vital facilities, but will not to
take any role in preserving
internal security and order. He
added that the statements by Iran
are a clear interference in the
internal affairs of Bahrain and
that Bahrain had not interfered
in Iranian affairs when serious
disturbances took place there.
He expressed his hope that
Iran would stop interfering in
Bahrains affairs.
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After the failure of the sectarian coup attempt and vandalism by a misguided group funded
and supported externally, advocates of chaos and violence launched a media and political
campaign supported by international organizations and news media, and some officials in
the west. This was based on false information and distorted facts about Bahrain emanating
from human right activists there, even though what they say is based on their absolute
sectarian views rather than fact.
Despite the multiplicity of parties launching this organized and suspicious campaign, they
are all deliberately maiming and distorting the facts regarding the situation in Bahrain. and
present almost the same illegal and unacceptable demands, like releasing the detainees who
were involved in the sectarian coup attempt witnessed by the country, and suspending all
disciplinary actions taken by the authorities in Bahrain against those who were involved in
that attempt.
The aim of this ongoing campaign is to undermine the Kingdom of Bahrains achievements
to restore security and stability, to leave its internal security exposed, and to reward the
political forces and outlaws who committed crimes against the country and threatened the
country.
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Here we can demonstrate two examples to explain this. The first is a sentence that the
National Safety court issued in April 2011 to life imprisonment for those convicted of
killing two police officers. The crime was heinous, seen by everyone, which leaves no
room for ensuring a judgement that must be fair in retribution.
There have been reports by international news agencies and statements by officials in
foreign countries and international organizations based on distorted and false information
not only regarding the hearing and the sentences, but also the situation in Bahrain in general.
These include that the sentences were political, and that the trial was unjust.
Those with such prejudiced opinions and misconceptions did not bother to search for the
truth or make sure that their reports and articleswere professional and ethical. The sentence
was issued against criminal murderers, not against demonstrators or protesters.. In addition,
although it is a military court, it met the elements of recognized justice and equity, since it
provided the accused every opportunity to defend themselves through their lawyers, and
they still have the right to appeal.
Another example which confirms that the Kingdom of Bahrain is experiencing an unfair
media campaign is the political allegation made by Mariam Al-Khawaja, in charge
of External Relations at the supposedly dissolved Bahrain Human Rights, when she
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declared in Oslo forum, which was held in Norway in May 2011,that Bahraini authorities
hired Indian expats to attack the anti-government protesters.
Al-Khawaja made these allegations as a guest of the Oslo Freedom Forum during a session
called The Dawn of the Arab World. She said the Government of Bahrain used thugs,
mostly from the Indian community, to attack the demonstrators, and for that reason there
was violence by protesters. She also claimed that the anti-government protesters were
peaceful, despite having killed four policemen in March.In addition, others suffered stab
wounds during the clashes with the outlaws.
Al-Khawaja has used this claim to justify the attacks by rioters on innocent Asian people in
March, which resulted in the death of four people, the wounding of hundreds and forcing
hundreds of foreign and expatriate workers to abandon their homes located in Manama
area.

The denial and refutation of Al-Khawajas allegations and lies came from the Indian
embassy, which issued a statement describing them as having no relationship to the truth.
The embassy confirmed also that the Indian community in Bahrain did not participate in
any kind of violence at any stage of the unrest and that it respects the law and only hopes
to contribute significantly to the development and prosperity of Bahrain.
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The kingdom of Bahrain has foiled a planned sabotage attack and still faces a suspicious
and unethical, media and political war waged by people, countries and organizations with
a hidden agenda.. And they present their views as facts of what is happening in Bahrain,
disregarding any information, and any other views, contrary to the misleading false
information that they provide, and to the suspicious views they express, which has no
relation to the reality of what is happening in Bahrain.
Any official or an international organization or newspaper seeks truth and credibility on
situation in Bahrain should take care to provide differening views and different opinions
in a balanced manner so these countries, organizations and the press will not be used as a
political tool to blackmail the government.

This report is issued by:
Bahrain Jurists Association.
Other participating associations:
1 - National Action Charter Association.
2 - Islamic unity Association.
3 - National Constitutional Rally Association.
4 - National Dialogue Association
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Message assistant general manager of Trafco
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Message from the Director-General of the
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This report is issued by:
Bahrain Jurists Association.
Other participating associations:
1 - National Action Charter Association.
2 - Islamic unity Association.
3 - National Constitutional Rally Association.
4 - National Dialogue Association