Bahraini.TV

The three women in head scarves and black abayas surged into the main atrium of the Seef Mall at 11 p.m. the other night, unfurling a banner outside the Next clothing boutique that read, “It is forbidden to arbitrarily arrest and detain people.”

A picture was taken, and in less than a minute they had dispersed. As they tried to leave, more than a dozen plainclothes and uniformed police officers surrounded one of them, Fakhria al-Singace, pinning her spread-eagled on a cafe table.

Parliamentary elections in Bahrain later this year will offer little to Shi’ite opposition groups pressing for more democratic reforms, and are unlikely to heal their rift with the country’s Sunni Muslim rulers.

Nine men standing trial for murder inflicted injuries on themselves and tried to pass it off as police torture, a medical examiner told Bahrain’s High Criminal Court yesterday. The Bahrainis claimed they were beaten into confessing by police, but Dr Hatim Mahmood Nabeel told judges that was unlikely during a gruelling two-and-a-half hour session. They [...]

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Just eight women ran in Bahrain’s first general election in 2002, with the number increasing to 18 four years later. Despite a handful of close races in 2006, only one woman managed to secure a seat in the country’s fledgling parliament, after she ran unopposed.

But if May al Otaibi and others have anything to do with it, female candidates will have a good chance during Bahrain’s next general election slated for November 2010.

The iconic Bahrain World Trade Centre (BWTC) will act as the backdrop for a pioneering multimedia projection show being held to mark Bahrain’s National Day tomorrow.

The twin towers, located directly behind the performance venue on the King Faisal Highway corniche, will form the canvas for a series of events and shows using technology never seen before in Bahrain, including a multimedia show and several dance performances spread across nine stages.

Tehran’s talks with the West on the Iranian nuclear programme failed because the Arab states of the Gulf were not involved, Bahrain’s foreign minister told a security conference on Saturday.

Because the process was flawed, its failure should not result in new sanctions on Iran, Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Khalifa told the sixth Manama Dialogue.

“Somebody’s trying to do business while we’re not there, while we’re not present in that room,” he said. “This is a fundamental mistake of how these talks were conducted. I think that is the main reason of why the talks failed.”

Golden Girl Ruqaya Al Ghasra stunned the Bahrain sports world last night after announcing her retirement from competitive athletics. The 27-year-old multi-titled sprinter revealed the sad and unexpected news in front of a handful of shocked media members in a conference held at the National Stadium in Riffa. Ruqaya said that concern for her overall [...]

The crisis in Dubai has gone beyond debt and become one surrounding the credibility of its leadership. Dubai World’s failure to honour its obligations has shaken faith among the international investment community in Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Emirate’s normally ebullient leader. The price of restoring it is likely to be much more [...]

Dubai, which until last week loomed tall – literally – as an enterprising, cosmopolitan, glitzy and happy antithesis to the Middle East’s economic stagnation, has now emerged as a sad monument to all that is ill about the pan-Arab economy, which includes more than a quarter-billion people but is smaller than Spain’s.