Bahrain Cracks Down on Dissent - American Expert Published February 16th, 2021 - 08:27 GMT
In this file photo taken on February 25, 2011 Bahraini Shiite anti-government protesters chant slogans against the regime during a rally in remembrance of the seven people who were killed in police crackdowns as they march towards Pearl Square in Manama. With a popular, reform-minded crown prince newly installed as prime minister, and a decade passed since the Arab Spring, Bahrain should be well placed to cast off the painful legacy of its uprising. The Pearl monument in downtown Manama the centre of the protests before they were crushed with the help of Saudi forces has long since been razed. But the nation s wounds remain raw and there is still no room for dissent. Joseph EID / AFP
Monday, 15 February 2021 3:30 PM
[ Last Update: Monday, 15 February 2021 4:45 PM ] In this photo taken on February 25, 2011, Bahraini Shia protesters chant slogans against the regime during a rally in remembrance of the seven people who were killed in police crackdowns as they march towards Pearl Square in Manama. (Photo by AFP)
Bahraini regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent and its systematic abuse of the Shia population and discrimination against them violate numerous international laws, an American human rights expert and peace activist says.
Daniel Kovalik, who teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in the state of Pennsylvania, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday.
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JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Young law students in Myanmar are defending democracy online and in public demonstrations as they resist the February 1 military takeover that deposed civilian Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Reaching out to a wide international public on social media, deploying video and graphics and using Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Signal and a range of other apps on their mobile phones they have launched insistent and creative appeals over the Internet criticizing the new military government. Law students have also gone into the streets in university cities like Mandalay, joining young lawyers in shows of strength that recall crowds of youths from the 1988 Revolution more than a generation ago.
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Adkins, who practices in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia office, focuses his work primarily on complex, high-risk commercial litigation in the areas of banking, construction, energy and commercial contract disputes. With more than two decades of representative experience in litigation work, including numerous tried-to-verdict jury trials, he ass
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Bowles Rice LLP issued the following announcement on Feb. 1.
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