Detention Extended for Prominent Shiite Politician in Bahrain
Lesson Brief
BBC Arabic
On December 30, BBC Arabic reported that the Bahraini judiciary has extended the detention of Ali Salman, a prominent Shiite politician. Salman, the secretary general of the Islamic Wifaq Association, the largest opposition political constituency in Bahrain, was detained earlier in the week for his role in protests and inciting dissent. Bahrain is a majority Shiite country with a Sunni-led constitutional monarchy.
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- broad reforms
- إصلاحات واسعة
- punishable by law
- يعاقب عليها القانون
- sacking the government
- إقالة الحكومة
- most of the day
- معظم اليوم
- (political) blocs
- تكتلات
- rapprochement
- مصالحة
- outbreak (explosion) of uprisings
- تفجر انتفاضات
- to attribute to, to trace back to
- نَسَبَ ، يَنْسَبُ إلى
- provisions of the law
- أحكام القانون
- to fail, to perform badly
- أَخْفَقَ ، يُخْفِقُ