Bahrain: Only Independent Newspaper Shut Down

Expand Mansoor al-Jamri, chief editor of Al Wasat, an independent daily. © 2003 Reuters (Beirut) - Bahraini authorities on June 4, 2017, ordered the immediate indefinite suspension of Al Wasat, the country's only independent newspaper, Human Rights Watch said today. The Bahrain authorities should immediately revoke the order. Al Wasat is one of the very few independent news sites in the entire Gulf region. Yousif Mohammed Ismail, the media director at the Ministry of Information Affairs, delive...