Favorite The first time I spoke with Zainab al-Khawaja, in a Skype video conversation in late 2011, the Bahraini dissident explained to me that the popularity of her @angryarabiya Twitter feed — which she used to chart the violent suppression of Bahrain’s Arab Spring uprising that year — seemed to have given her a measure…
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Bahrain Finds Opposition Leader Guilty of Opposition
Favorite A court in Bahrain sentenced a prominent opposition leader to one year in jail on Wednesday for the crime of “inciting hatred” — hatred, that is, of the Persian Gulf monarchy’s repressive government. Bahrain News Agency | Hate inciter sentenced to one year in prison https://t.co/m2zM4heaSf — Bahrain News Agency (@bna_en) February 24, 2016…