Interview with a Bahraini Activist: “The People of Bahrain Don’t Want American Military Bases or Normalisation with Israel”

As the threat of regional war grows and Western powers deepen their military footprint across the Middle East, Bahraini opposition activist Dr Ibrahim Al Aradi speaks to MENA Solidarity about political repression in Bahrain, resistance to US military bases and normalisation with Israel, and why he believes the peoples of the region must take their future into their own hands. Read the full interview.

Bahrain: Maryam al-Khawaja detained, take action now

Leading Bahrain human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja remains in detention in Bahrain after being arrested on 30 August after she arrived to visit her father, a political prisoner who began a hunger strike on 25 August. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is serving a life sentence after a trial widely condemned as unfair, and has suffered severe torture…

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Bahrain: Trade unions and the struggle for democracy

by David Binns (UCU London Retired Members) MENA Solidarity’s Bahrain Briefing, posted on 21 May of this year, drew attention to the activities of a pro­-regime trade union network named the Bahrain Labour Union Free Federation (BLUFF). BLUFF emerged in 2012, in the aftermath of the Bahraini­Saudi joint state assault on democracy campaigners and independent…