GlobalResearchTV
December 12, 2012

Leading Bahraini human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, has had his prison term cut from three to two years. Rajab has been imprisoned since August, on charges of organizing illegal gatherings and inciting violence.

The activist’s lawyer was demanding his release. The uprising in Bahrain has been ongoing for almost two years now, with the Shia majority demanding democratic reform from the Sunni ruling family.

RT talks to geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen.

“Anything that the regime is going to give way on will be a positive thing,” he told RT. However he noted that, “to have any genuine democratic reform in a country like Bahrain, that is housing the US fifth naval fleet and at the same time Washington and London and Tel-Aviv are talking aggressively, bating Iran into a military conflict, perhaps, that makes it a huge problem to see any reform happening now in Bahrain,” Henningsen said.

Originally aired on RT, December 11, 2012
http://rt.com/news/bahrain-sentence-activist-protests-840/

PressTV
December 10, 2012

The Western media has always ignored Bahraini revolution, the Rohingya massacre and some of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time. In this year’s UN session on human rights in Geneva, the Islamic Commission on Human Rights is planning to put these issues at the top of the agenda. On this week’s INFocus, we follow the efforts of the IHRC as they go to the UN to champion the causes of Muslims suffering around the world.

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