I’m trying to recover from the shock. They are sending a message that nothing is untouchable in Bahrain.

Mansour al-Jamri describing his arrest and the government takeover of his newspaper Al Wasat, Bahrain’s only major independent paper.

The government accuses al-Jamri of publishing false stories to incite a Shiite uprising.

Al-Jamri claims that government intelligence hacked his newspaper’s servers in order to plant the stories in question.

Clifford Krauss, New York Times, Editor Silenced, With the Help of Unreliable Sources.

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