Freedom is contagious. Blogging from Bahrain, "Chan'ad" is reporting on the "Al-Khawaja affair" - i.e. the closure of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and the arrest of its vice president after he called for the Prime Minister's resignation at a seminar about Poverty and Economic Rights in Bahrain. Great series.
Chan'ad has a pretty level headed attitude about the whole thing, and it's fair to note that Bahrain has taken significant steps toward liberty & democracy. Its rulers are now finding that it's hard to hold the door half-open, and Chan'ad notes the irony of the trial proceeding even as related protests etc. are demonstrating and encouraging the spread of the very freedoms the government is attempting to contain.
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