On the Bahraini National document and a general amnesty
Bahrain, Politics, 1/16/2001

News reports in Manama said that Bahraini figures have called in a first people's seminar held on the national document ( al-Mithaq al-Watani) in al-Bahrain to strengthen the atmospheres of openness in the country through abrogating the Security state law and to release a general amnesty concerning all detainees and to permit the return back of exiled persons.

Participants in the seminar which was held on Sunday evening in the presence of hundreds of persons from " the graduates club" in Manama said that the " national document" project is not comparable with the constitution, rather it is a political document that strengthens the constitution.

Former activist in the Bahrain's "Liberals movement" Majid al-Alawi who was one of the 6 figures that talked in the seminar, said in a remarkable interventions that Bahrain is hit by a crisis of confidence among various sides of the society and this has been since the suspension of the national council in August 1975. As well as the suspension of certain items in the constitution. He added that there were three options before the Emir of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa al-Khaleifa to eliminate this crisis.

He explained that the three options are keeping matters as they are; a progress to a limited extent that does not exceed elections for the current Shoura council with its current authorities, and keeping the already appointed Shoura council. He added that the third option is " what we are before now namely the national work charter which is indispensable."

He called on the participants in the seminar to positively deal with the declared democratic inclinations and the positive participation to this effect as well as to vote for the national document in the referendum which is presumed to be held in February at the supervision of legal figures and lawyers.

The charter also stated to restore back parliamentary life and to make the ruling system in Bahrain " constitutional monarchy."

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