Author Archives: GCC

Bahrain: New Deportations of Nationals

(Beirut) – Bahraini authorities have deported eight stateless Bahrainis, whom they had previously stripped of their citizenship, [...]

Iran could be winner, U.S. a loser from UAE-Qatar tensions

DUBAI (Reuters) – A rise in tension between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in [...]

Qatar to Saudi Arabia: Quit trying to overthrow our government

The defense minister says his country — and the White House — is exasperated by [...]

Saudi Arabia should be dropped from UN Human Rights Council, say British lawyers

Desert kingdom’s membership of key body expires in 2019 A campaign to remove Saudi Arabia from the UN [...]

Bahrain: Government expels citizens after having revoked their nationality

Turning citizens into stateless people and banishing them by forcing them to leave the country [...]

Two sentenced to death in Bahrain’s mass trial

A Bahraini court has sentenced two Shia Muslims to death and jailed 56 others on charges of [...]