Arabic News Weekly Edition for Bahrain, 6/20/2005
Weekly Edition, Bahrain - Week of June 20, 2005
- Manama: a demonstration against use of torture
Hundreds of Bahraini women, including scores of men, demonstrated on Friday before the UN headquarters in Manama demanding reconsideration of the victims of torture and trying persons responsible for it. Bahrain, Politics, 6/25/2005 - Helicopter crashed in Bahrain with three men
News reports in Manama quoted one official in the Bahraini ministry of defense as saying that one helicopter for the Bahraini royal air force crashed with three persons on its board. Bahrain, Local, 6/21/2005 - Bahrain defends police oppression of unemployed demonstrators
An official at the Bahraini ministry of the interior defended the police attacking and detaining several unemployed demonstrators during a march of protest on Sunday. Bahrain, Politics, 6/20/2005