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Interview with Maryam al-Khawaja

''The Regime Oppresses All Bahrainis''

In conversation with Azzurra Meringolo, the head of the "Bahrain Center for Human Rights" Maryam al-Khawaja reports on the repression of activists within the Bahrain democracy movement and how the regime is trying to portray the protests as a conflict between ethnic or confessional groupsMore

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