Bahrain lawmakers approve new anti-terrorism laws

[JURIST] The National Assembly of Bahrain [BBC backgrounder] on Sunday approved laws increasing penalties for those who commit or incite terrorism. The new laws also ban any demonstrations in the nation's capital, Manama. The laws were passed ahead of massive protests [CNN report] planned by the anti-government opposition bloc next month. Bahrain's National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) [advocacy website, in Arabic] praised [press release, in Arabic] the new laws as an effort to halt the "dangerous escalation" of unrest...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/bahrain-national-assembly-enacts-new-anti-terrorism-laws.php

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