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Bahrain Slams Foreign Media for Description of Protesters Sentenced to Death — Official Statement Objects to Calling Them ‘Protesters’
by Jason Ditz, May 01, 2011

The Bahraini government’s Information Affairs Authority (IAA) issued a statement this weekend angrily condemning the global media for its coverage of the trial of several Shi’ite protesters sentenced to death.

According to Bahrain’s state news agency, the IAA objected to the foreign media referring to the protesters as “protesters.” The state media referred to them only as “criminals” or “terrorists,” and those seem to have been the government’s preferred terms.

The IAA insisted it was unprofessional for media outlets to refer to them as protesters, saying that it gave the impression that they “have the right to protest.” The seven charged were in fact protesting at the time and were accused of killing two police during the crackdown against Shi’ite protests. …more