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State-run Bahrain TV Prosecutes Soccer Players and other Regime Opponents

State-run Bahrain TV Prosecutes Soccer Players and other Regime Opponents

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James M. Dorsey
Apr 22, 2011
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Bahrain national soccer team player and winner of the 2004 Golden Boot, Ala’a Hubail, was grilled on Bahraini state television in what has become a journalists-turned-prosecutor talk show that has become the public arraignment of prominent opponents of the country’s royal family, according to Tahiyya Lulu in a commentary in The Guardian.

Hubail as well a…

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