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

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…