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State institutions have also been penalizing citizens who have participated in the popular and peaceful protests that started in Bahrain on February 14th, 2011. The Ministry of Education, for example, has suspended the government scholarships of forty of its students registered in universities abroad. According to the MOE, these students “have com mitted serious illegal and unconstitutional violations” by calling for the fall of the regime and thus, do not merit any state privileges. Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has withdrawn the license of a Bahraini telecommunications company founded by opposition leader Ibrahim Sharif. The Bahraini regime has also intensified its war on media that are critical of al-Khalifa and their violent crackdown on protesters. The Bahraini Foreign Ministry, for instance, announced its intention to take legal measures against BBC reporter Caroline Hawley for allegedly “tarnishing the Kingdom’s reputation.” The pro-government Al Bilad newspaper has laid off three of its journalists also for joining the protests and expressing anti-regime views. More recently, Arabsat has accused Bahrain of intercepting its satellite signals after the Bahrain government lodged a complaint to the satellite operator accusing the Iranian “Al Alam” and Hizbollah’s “Al Manar” of breaking the operator’s regulations. And in the last week, the Bahraini regime has issued conflicting information on the positions of the seven opposition groups as well as the labor union calling off its strike, and then reportedly coercing their respective members into endorsing its statements.
