Bahrain’s public prosecutor on Sunday requested the death penalty for 19 men accused of murdering a policeman but acquitted by the High criminal Court in October. The men had been tried for their alleged role in the death of Majid Asghar Ali Baksh, a 24-year-old Pakistani policeman, in an ambush near Karazakan, a village...
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MP Rola Dashti Kuwait is determined to end discrimination against women in the workplace, a woman lawmaker has said. “Kuwait is keen on improving its laws and rules to eliminate discrimination against women in the workplace,” Rola Dashti has said. “Despite all the difficulties and challenges there has been some positive progress and we...
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Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA) has rejected the draft press law submitted by a parliamentary committee, saying that it failed to meet the aspirations of the media. “We deplore the insistence of the service committee in the lower chamber on a link between the press law and the penal law,” BJA chairman Isa Al Shaiji...
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