Students boycott University of Bahrain
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Students boycott University of Bahrain
By staff & agencies
TEHRAN — Hundreds of students have reportedly boycotted the University of Bahrain to protest against al-Khalifa regime’s brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters.
The students have said that they are not attending classes due to the government’s so-called protection measures and extra security protocols practiced at the university campus.
According to Press TV, earlier this week, classes at the University of Bahrain resumed after authorities installed new surveillance cameras across the university.
The facility was ransacked around two months ago during the political unrest that has gripped the Persian Gulf state for over three months.
All students must now re-register with the university and sign a code of conduct. Each student is given a compulsory identification card that must be worn at all times on campus.
According to Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR), the University of Bahrain is planning to accept only pro-government students and those refusing to sign a pledge of loyalty to the government will be expelled from the only national higher education institution in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
Since the beginning of anti-regime protests in Bahrain in mid-February, Manama has launched a harsh crackdown on anti-government protesters, rounding up senior opposition figures and activists in dawn raids and arresting doctors, nurses, lawyers and journalists who have voiced support for the protest movement.
Scores of protesters have been killed and many others have gone missing ever since the protests broke out.
Bahrainis condemn death sentences
On Monday, hundreds of Bahrainis poured into the streets across the country to protest against the death sentences handed to two anti-government protesters.
The opposition condemned the verdict describing it as a political move aimed at suppressing the anti-government movement.
On Sunday, a military court upheld the death sentences for two anti-government protesters for their involvement in the killing of two police officers during anti-regime demonstrations.
“The National Safety Appeals Court upheld the death sentence Sunday against Ali Abdullah Hasan al-Singace and Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ibrahim Hussein,” BNA reported.
U.S. complicitous in regime’s crimes
The U.S. administration is not willing to reveal the truth about the Bahraini regime and its brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, says a Bahraini political activist.
Washington “would not really uncover the truth and the true face of the (Bahraini) regime. And this is why the Bahraini people consider the U.S. as an accomplice in what is going on in Bahrain,” Saeed al-Shehabi, a member of Bahrain Freedom Movement, told Press TV on Sunday.
The Americans “are aware of what is going on (in Bahrain) — the British embassy is there, the U.S. embassy is there in Manama. They saw how the trucks went and destroyed the mosques, how various villages were attacked and were ransacked,” al-Shehabi added. …source
