title: cypriot leaders to continue talks in november un
text: interviews a protester throws a glass bottle containing paint at a police armored personnel carrier during antiregime demos in the village of sitra south of manama february   photo by reuters 
  the fourth high criminal court of bahrain has sentenced  political opponents to long jail terms and also revoked the citizenship of all of them while several international rights groups have criticized the al khalifa regimes harsh crackdown on the bahraini opposition the western powers turn a blind eye to the arab states violations of human rights 
  edward corrigan an international human rights lawyer told press tvs top  program that the western powers are trying to whitewash the crimes committed by the arab dictatorships in the persian gulf region because such regimes are considered the wests lap dogs 
  there is a double standard corrigan said explaining that western powers say if you are a friend of ours and do what we want and give us oil and invest your money into european or american economy we wont question your human rights violations 
  according to the analyst there is hypocrisy double standards and this is really a big political game our dictatorships and allies are ok but somebody else that we dont like for whatever reason we magnify their crimes and even create false flags and do other things to try to discredit them 
  elsewhere in his remarks corrigan said the definition of terrorism in bahrain covers any kind of opposition because the regime does not want to allow any sort of political movements there to try to reform the system to redress this massive discrimination against the shia population and to have any sort of voice for democracy so all of that is terrorism 
  he added it is against the international law to remove peoples nationality from them and this is an extreme sort of punishment very draconian as theyre condemned by the international human rights organizations and other organizations 
  manama has been cracking down on dissent since february  when an uprising began against the regime scores of people have lost their lives and hundreds of others sustained injuries or got arrested as a result of al khalifah regimes harsh crackdown on antiregime activists loading