If you want to know what perseverance and courage look like, look no further than Maryam al-Khawaja. Day after day, year after year, the Bahraini-Danish human rights defender has been fighting for the ...

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This post is part of our special coverage Bahrain Protests 2011. As the international media focus shifts toward Libya and the rapidly unfolding events there, Bahrain government is unleashing a violent ...

More footage of government thugs cracking down on dissent: A more disturbing scene after the jump - one of security forces shooting a man and leaving him for dead: Earlier clips here.