Is this the Al-Khalifa's 'reforms'
They murder children with teargas, they terrorize the rest with the threat of suffocation in their sleep!
Yasqot Hamad!
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Children are being suffocated by teargas in Bahrain!
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Reese Erlich: The uprising against monarchy grows more intense, mostly ignored by Western media Delete the scoop?
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A Manama appeal court yesterday upheld journalist Reem Khalifa’s conviction on a trumped-up charge of physically attacking two women doctors and insulting a third after a Manama news conference in July 2011. The charges were brought against Khalifa after she accused the three doctors, who are government supporters, of attacking and insulting her. She will have to pay a fine of 100 BD (210 euros) and a total of 500 BD in compensation to the doctors (BD 200 to each of the two she allegedly attacked and BD 100 to the one she allegedly insulted) The appeal court’s decision is just the latest in a series of rulings that demonstrate the Bahraini judicial system’s complete lack of independence. The court did not examine the evidence provided by Khalifa’s lawyer.... Delete the scoop?
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What CNN is doing is they are essentially creating what some people have termed “infomercials for dictators.” And that’s the sponsored content that they are airing on CNN International that is actually being paid for by regimes and governments. And this violates every principle of journalistic ethics, because we’re supposed to be watchdogs on these governments. We are not supposed to allow them to be a paying customer as journalists. And that’s the issue here – that CNN is feeding, then, this propaganda to the public and not fairly disclosing to the public that this is sponsored content. Delete the scoop?
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On 19 June 2011 at 8pm, CNN's domestic outlet in the US aired "iRevolution" for the first and only time. The program received prestigious journalism awards, including a 2012 Gold Medal from New York Festival's Best TV and Films.
See 'iRevolution' subpart on Bahrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2DeZBgTEk Delete the scoop?
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I saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.
Back in March 2011, CNN sent a four person team to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring. Once there, the crew was the subject of extreme intimidation amongst other things, but they were able to record some fantastic footage. As Glenn Greenwald of the UK’s Guardian writes in his blockbuster article from today: In the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives’ abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime. Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Even in the face of numerous inquiries and complaints from their own employees inside CNN, it continued to refuse to broadcast the program or even provide any explanation for the decision. To date, this documentary has never aired on CNNi.
In March 2012, Lyon was laid off from CNN as part of an unrelated move by the network to outsource its investigative documentaries. “At this point,” Lyon said, “I look at those payments as dirty money to stay silent. I got into journalism to expose, not help conceal, wrongdoing, and I’m not willing to keep quiet about this any longer, even if it means I’ll lose those payments.”
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.... It is this regime which has labelled those killed by torture as drowning victims . They have labelled those being killed by security forces as sickle cell victims and they have used PR BullSh*t to completely distort the true picture of Bahrain. This cannot be tolerated. The rule of law shall prevail. ....Send the Al-Khalifas to the ICC for judgement" .... [Samira Rajab is such a propagandist troll ! ] Delete the scoop?
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... “The Bahraini government maintains publicly that it is trying to return the country to normalcy after last year’s revolt, but this is impossible as long as due process and basic human rights are denied to its citizens and human rights defenders,” said David J. Kramer, president of Freedom House. “Turning away international observers at this time seriously undermines the credibility of the government’s stated commitment to reform.” ... Delete the scoop?
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...Fears quickly grew for the fate of the driver, who was violently attacked by police before being taken away separately. The channel's head of foreign news, Ben de Pear, has urged Britain's foreign secretary to raise the way in which he was treated with Bahrain. Responding to a tweet from the minister, who had expressed concern over the fate of the team, he said: "The police treated the driver badly. I trust these are issues brought up in consultations." Delete the scoop?
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BAHRAIN, one of America's more repressive allies, tries to keep many journalists and human rights monitors out. I recently tried to slip in anyway. The jig was up at the Bahrain airport when an immigration officer typed my name into his computer and then snapped to attention. "Go back over there and sit down," he said, looking at me in horror and keeping my passport. "We'll call you." The Sunni monarchy in Bahrain doesn't want witnesses as it tightens its chokehold over a largely Shiite population. Almost every evening, there are clashes between the police and protesters, with both sides growing more enraged and violent. Around 100 people have been killed since Arab Spring protests began in Bahrain in February 2011. I was in Bahrain then as troops opened fire without warning on unarmed protesters who were chanting "peaceful, peaceful." The oppression has sometimes been nothing short of savage. Police clubbed a distinguished surgeon, Sadiq al-Ekri, into a coma - because he tried to provide medical aid to injured protesters. By all accounts, torture has been common. In the larger scheme of things, Bahrain is a tiny country and maybe doesn't matter much to the United States. What nags at me is that this is a close American ally - assaulting people in some cases with American equipment - yet the Obama administration mostly averts its eyes. This is a case not just of brutal repression, but also of American hypocrisy. ... Delete the scoop?
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Breaking here in the U.S. are allegations that CNN and its CNN’s international arm engaged in accepting money from oppressive Islamic nations such as Bahrain to promote flattering reporting instead of the oppression the regime has engaged in against its citizens. CNN International also denied showing a documentary about Bahrain and its oppression on its people. .... Delete the scoop?
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Guardian: CNN and the business of state-sponsored TV news http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-business-state-sponsored-news (Click on image to enlarge)...
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Bahrain portion of iRevolution on CNN June 19 2011... Delete the scoop?
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... In their effort to impose a media blackout of the uprising, Bahraini authorities have obstructed and harassed foreign journalists, making video footage from citizen journalists like the 22-year-old videographer Ahmed Ismail Hassan vital in informing news coverage of the unrest, CPJ research shows. Hassan was shot while filming a pro-reform protest on March 31 in Salmabad, a village southwest of the capital, Manama, according to local journalists and news reports. After the protest was dispersed by riot police with tear gas and rubber bullets, unknown assailants in a Toyota land cruiser began shooting live ammunition at the protesters, news reports said. Hassan was shot, and died in a hospital later that morning.... Delete the scoop?
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... Finally, all the rhetoric of media cities and technological modernisation serves to highlight the importance of tools, as opposed to values or principles. Indeed, all this modernisation really means is that Bahrain will be better able to broadcast a selective intepretation of reality to more and more people around the world. Unfortunately, it is this ‘selective interpretation of reality’ that so many people are eager to define as ‘truth’. Yet as we are all probably aware, we have seen a multiplicity of truths emerge over the past year. People who are so eager to use the term truth, are often those who are eager to dispel an opposing truth. Thus using the word truth simply highlights its own contentious semantics, drawing more attention to the speaker’s ideology than reality itself. In many ways, truth is simply a word used to describe a specific narrative serving a particular ideological function. The announcement of a ‘media city’ is nothing to excited about. On the contrary, it represents how wealth and power gives those with wealth and power the ability to project their version of reality to a wider audience. This media city is merely a ‘ truth centre’, an Orwellian institution whose function serves not to inform, but to marginalize, deflect, deceive, dominate and censor.
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Films about Bahrain, Sri Lanka, adoption and care homes are all up for the award - vote for the one you think should win... Delete the scoop?
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