Bahrain
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Released detainees include some jailed for political reasons and is UK ally’s biggest amnesty since Arab spring
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Footage appears to show HMS Chiddingfold reversing into HMS Bangor
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Stewart, a Tory MP at the time, told activist Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei to ‘go back to Bahrain’ during row last year
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Ayman Safadi says credibility of international law at stake as he clashes with senior US official over terms for humanitarian pause
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Hezbollah calls for ‘day of rage’ as both sides trade blame for deadly explosion at al-Ahli al-Arab hospital
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Spectacular ancient trees stir deep feelings, as the felling of Sycamore Gap showed. Here are more noble specimens, including one whose survival is a deep-rooted puzzle
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Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatment
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Peer did not declare 13 meetings with Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund when he sought permission to work for Bahraini company
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Detainees at Jau prison that mainly houses prisoners of conscience began refusing food on 7 August
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Maryam al-Khawaja says she fears her father Abdulhadi’s health is deteriorating in prison and condemns Denmark for inaction
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Humanitarian groups urge foreign secretary to issue correction to a recent report, amid fears it could provide cover for repression in the Gulf state
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Scotland Yard to look into footage in which Beckenham MP tells activist Sayed Alwadaei ‘go back to Bahrain’
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The director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy confronts Stewart outside a reception hosted by the Bahraini embassy
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Exclusive: In video footage, Bob Stewart MP heard telling Sayed Alwadaei ‘you’re taking money off my country’
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European parliament due to vote on Thursday on resolution calling for release of Bahraini activist
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Rights groups say whatever the outcome of election, no real change will follow despite record number of female candidates
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