The government of Bahrain revoked grants from UK-based students who attended the Manchester protest last month. The protest outside the BBC building was organized in solidarity with Bahrain's pro-democracy movement. To the families of the students who were photographed attending the protest in Manchester, the government of Bahrain is putting intense pressure. Bahrain is forcing the parents to get their children home, but the students do not want this, because they think they will be arrested and disappear. The students want the British government to protect them. Students fear violence against their families. The Bahraini embassy in London declined to comment on the claims of government's sanctions against the students. According to the students Bahraini or Saudi spies took pictures of them during the protest so that the Bahraini government knew who attended the protest.
I feel sympathy for the UK-based students. I think they did not provided the Bahraini government’s sanctions to their grants. They should be allowed to protest against their government, but the government are in control and these are the consequences for them. Like the students I won’t go back to Bahrain to protect myself. The students must feel themselves powerless, because they can not help and protect their families of the Bahraini government. It is a very corrupt matter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/15/bahrain-regime-uk-students
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