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– Bahraini government on verge of dissolving Wa'ad political society (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News April 25, 2017

The justice ministry's case against Wa'ad, the country's largest secular, leftist opposition society, is representative of the government's ongoing suppression of Bahraini political and civil society space.
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