Saturday, April 16, 2011

Bahrain regime accused of harassing UK-based students

Students who attended Manchester protest say they had grants revoked and fear violent reprisals against families

The government of Bahrain is putting intense pressure on the families of students in Britain who were photographed attending a peaceful protest in Manchester in solidarity with the country s pro-democracy movement.

The gulf kingdom has stripped government-funded scholarships from those who attended the event outside the BBC building last month, the students say, and told

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