Every night hooded men arrest dozens of people, several opposition leaders have died under torture, and the army goes into the hospitals to arrest doctors and confiscate patients’ medical files (1). The press is controlled, and the main political organisations may now be banned. This political repression is accompanied by a rhetoric that would be termed racist if it were not principally aimed at a sectarian minority, the Shia, who make up 70% of Bahrain’s population.
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