Bahrain in 2019... A Cybercrime Syndrome The tenth annual report Freedom of press in Bahrain 2019 Organization concerned with defending freedom of expression in Bahrain Founded in London 9th July 2011 All Rights Received E-mail:
[email protected] website: www.bahrainpa.org Special Thanks to the National Endowment for Democracy for the continuous support The tenth annual report of the Bahrain Press Association The tenth annual report of the Bahrain Press Cybercrime Syndrome A Bahrain in 2019: BPA رابطة الصحافة البحرينية @BahrainPA · May 03, 2020 @BahrainPA Introduction The year 2019 marked a milestone at the level of the Bahraini authorities targeting of media freedoms, freedom of expression, and the right to 03 engage in journalistic work. It is one of the worst years when compared to all previous years, specifically since the beginning of the political and security crisis in early 2011. The very name of the tenth annual report of the Bahrain Press Association, Bahrain 2019: a Cybercrime Syndrome, indicates the security authorities’ overtly frantic vision of any healthy practice of freedom of expression as a crime. Expressing opinions about the state and its policies is a cybercrime that, always and forever, aims to spread false news, split the national unity line, provoke sedition, threaten civil peace and social fabric, and to destabilize security in Bahrain. Bahrainis’ These charges have been replicated in all cases of arrest, exercise of investigation, and judicial trials that affected Bahrainis over their natural the past year. Through this policy, the state seeks to tighten its right to grip on the cyberspace after had taken absolute control of the expression local press on the one hand, and banning all forms of political association on the other.