Bahrain Regime's Onslaught on Pro-Democracy Women

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No NATO Bombs for King Hamad al-Khalifa


Bahrain's security forces are increasingly targeting women in their campaign against pro-democracy protestors, despite the official lifting of martial law in the island kingdom yesterday.

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The Bahraini government is also eager to host the Formula One motor race, which was postponed from earlier in the year, but may be rescheduled to take place in Bahrain by the sports governing body meeting in Barcelona tomorrow.

There are growing signs that Bahraini police, riot police and special security are detaining and mistreating more and more women. Many are held incommunicado, forced to sign confessions or threatened with rape according to Bahraini human rights groups.

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Bahrain is the first country affected by the Arab Spring where women have been singled out as targets for repression. Bahraini human rights groups say that hundreds have been arrested. Many women complain of being severely beaten while in custody and one woman journalist was beaten so badly that she could not walk. 
In another case, a woman doctor, who was later released but may be charged, says she was threatened with rape. She told Reuters news agency that the police said: "We are 14 guys in this room, do you know what we can do to you? It's the emergency law and we are free to do what we want." 


-snip says if the Race does go in it will have one fourth of the officials not there as they have been either arrested, fired, or quit.
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the Bahrain Regime's men are a bunch of cowards attacking the women. may they develop chronic crotch itch.

i signed my name to a petition and i won`t be watching the race