The world’s longest serving prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain, has died aged 84.
Sovereign Khalifa, who got to work after Bahrain picked up freedom in 1971, had been accepting treatment at a clinic in the US, state media said. He was an uncle to King Hamad and included a ground-breaking part inside the imperial family. The ruler was viewed by some as a hardliner, and his expulsion was requested by supportive of vote based system dissidents during a bombed Arab Spring uprising in 2011. He said the Arab Spring had brought just “passing, tumult and annihilation”, and denied claims that he had impeded political change endeavors in Bahrain. Experts state the selection of his replacement will flag whether Bahrain, which as of late consented to standardize relations with Israel, is hoping to diagram another course.
The Sunni Muslim-governed state has kept on clasping down on contradict since security powers squashed the uprising nine years back. The fights were driven by the Shia lion’s share network, which has whined of segregation. The legislature has restricted all free media from working in the nation, broken up all resistance gatherings, and looked to quiet online analysis. Conspicuous common freedoms safeguards, columnists, and resistance pioneers have been detained alongside scores of dissidents. Many individuals have likewise been deprived of their Bahraini identity, and five men have been executed in the wake of being sentenced for illegal intimidation offenses in preliminaries that basic liberties bunches said were defaced by genuine fair treatment infringement and charges of torment