The security forces of Bahrain’s al-Khalifa tribal rule have detained a popular native Bahraini orator, precipitating the suspicion that it is enforcing its sectarian agenda. Mahdi Sahwan, in his fifties, was detained yesterday at a police station after being summoned to attend for interrogation. The crime? Raising slogans against the American Ambassador in Bahrain, Steven …

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