Bahrain Protests

• Policeman, protesters wounded in Bahrain clashes

  Bahraini security forces clashed with anti-regime protesters early Friday, leaving several people wounded including a policeman who was shot with a home-made gun, the interior ministry and witnesses said.

• Protest marches, clashes expand in tense Bahrain

  Thousands of anti-government marchers jammed a major highway on Friday as clashes broke out for a second day between security forces and protesters marking the anniversary of their uprising in the strategic Gulf nation.

• Bahrain court upholds life sentences on opposition

  Bahrain's highest court on Monday upheld jail sentences against 20 opposition figures - including eight sentenced to life in prison - in a decision likely to touch off more street protests in the violence-wracked Gulf nation and bring renewed criticism from its Western allies.

• 23 Bahrain medics get three month jail terms over protests

  A Bahrain court on Wednesday sentenced 23 medics to three months in jail each for taking part in anti-regime protests last year and acquitted five others, the prosecution said.

• Bahrain's king pardoning some protesters

  Bahrain will dismiss charges against some people detained during crackdowns against Shiite-led protests and allow compensation to prisoners abused by security forces, the Gulf nation's king said today in a nationally broadcast speech.

• Death sentence for Bahrain protesters

  A military court in Bahrain on Thursday convicted four Shiite protesters and sentenced them to death for the killing of two policemen during anti-government demonstrations last month in the Gulf kingdom, state media said. Three other Shiite activists, who were also on trial, were sentenced to life in prison for their role in the policemen's deaths....

• Bahrain to prosecute civil servants over protests

  More than a hundred civil servants in Bahrain were summarily fired for participating in anti-government protests, the state news agency said on Sunday, in the latest crackdown on the opposition.The Bahrain News Agency said on Sunday that 111 employees of the Education Ministry had been punished for participating in the street marches and strikes la...

• Indian national killed in crossfire in Bahrain

  An Indian national was killed in a crossfire in Bahrain, which is witnessing protests for the past several weeks, even as India today advised its nationals there to stock up big on rations and not to go out of their homes, saying the situation was "tense but calm"."Stephen Abraham of India, caught in a crossfire in Bahrain, loses his life. Our Emb ...

• Bahrain unrest: Protesters cut off country's financial centre

  Thousands of anti-government demonstrators cut off Bahrain's financial centre and drove back police trying to push them from the capital's central square, shaking the tiny island kingdom on Sunday with the most disruptive protests since calls for more freedom erupted a month ago.Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government demon...

• Bahrain unrest: Women come out in support of protests

  Thousands of women in Bahrain took to the streets of the capital Manama on Saturday to show their support for the popular anti-government protests.Most women wore traditional black cloaks, with their heads covered. Others wore Bahraini flags around their shoulders as they converged on Pearl Roundabout, the focal-point for demonstrations."Today we a...

• As army pulls back, Bahrain protesters retake Pearl Square

  Thousands of jubilant protesters surged back into the symbolic heart of Bahrain on Saturday after government security forces withdrew and the monarchy called for peace after days of violent crackdowns.It was a remarkable turn after a week of protests that had shifted by the hour between joy and fear, euphoric surges of popular uprising followed by ...

• Bahrain unrest: King appoints Crown Prince to start dialogue

  Soldiers opened fire on Friday on thousands of protesters defying a government ban and streaming towards the landmark Pearl Square in the Bahraini capital of Manama which had been the symbolic centre of the uprising to break the political grip of the Gulf nation's leaders.Officials at the main Salmaniya Hospital said at least 50 people were injured...

• Bahrain's military takes control of key areas in capital

  The Bahrain  military, backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, took control of most of this capital on Thursday hours after hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers fired shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades to break up a pro-democracy camp inspired by the tumult swirling across the Middle East.Soldiers took up positions on...

• Crackdown on protesters in Bahrain's Pearl Square; 5 dead

  Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square Manama early on Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation's absolute monarchy.At least five people died, some of them reportedly killed ...

• Bahrain: Protesters take over main square

  Police in Bahrain shot dead one person and wounded several others during protests in the capital Manama on Tuesday, Hezbollah's television channel Al Manar reported.Officials at Bahrain's Salmaniya Medical Complex said a 31-year-old man, Fadhel Salman Matrook, became the second fatality when he died of injuries from gunfire during the melee in the ...