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February 15, 2016

Bahrain: 4 U.S. Journalists Arrested Amid Protests on 5th Anniversary of Uprising
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The Associated Press is reporting four American journalists have been
arrested in Bahrain while covering protests surrounding the fifth
anniversary of the Gulf nation's pro-democracy uprising. The 2011
protests by Bahrain's Shiite majority against the Sunni-led monarchy
were among the largest seen during the Arab Spring, but they were
crushed with the help of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Bahrain is a close U.S. ally, home to the Navy's Fifth Fleet.
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