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Bahrain: Society may appoint Jew, Baha'i to monitor polls
A local human rights group plans to appoint a Jew and a Baha'i to monitor the parliament and municipal elections in Bahrain this year.The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) has announced its decision to form a monitoring committee for the 2010 state elections. The panel will be headed by Menashe Cohen and Gada Ehsan.
"We have a team of young volunteers who will monitor the elections and prepare a report. Our society has always backed the rights of minorities and with a Jewish- Bahraini and a Bahraini-Baha'i representing us, we are sending out a strong message of religious tolerance in the Kingdom," Faisal Fulad, BHRWS head said.
The elections are expected to be held in October, though no official date has been announced as yet.
Bahrain is one of the most religiously tolerant countries in the Middle East with more than a century-old missionary to promote Christianity, temples, and several other worshipping places.
Citizens from minority groups such as Christians and Jews are represented within the special quota in Parliament and for other leading posts in the state.
In May this year, the Bahraini leadership appointed Ibrahim Nonoo, a Bahraini Jewish, onboard the National Human Rights Authority (NHRA) that addresses human rights issue issues.
In 2008, Bahrain leaders met with a group of expatriate Bahraini Jews who live in the United Kingdom, and according to reports, granting full citizenship rights to Jewish returnees was discussed.
In 2007, a former Bahraini, Nancy Khedouri wrote a book on the history of Jews in Bahrain, which was published in mid-2007.
There is a synagogue and Jewish cemetery in the Kingdom.
By Sandeep Singh Grewal
© Bahrain Tribune 2010
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