Blocked Sites in Bahrain by BATELCO ISP

There are currently 22 internet sites or more blocked in Bahrain by Batelco (the only first residential Internet Service Provider in the country; owned by the Bahraini government). The filtering and blocking of content is usually upon "poltical and related" Matters that can be critical to the Bahrain rule. The following are the list of sites that are known to be blocked by BATELCO's access control:-

Bahrain Online (Discussion forum)
Montadayat al Bahrain (News and discussion forum)
Bahrain National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Torture (Discussion forum)
Sarah al Watani (Discussion forum)
Ahrar al Bahrain (Discussion forum)
Bahrain Times (Political satire)
Al Saheefa (Bahrain news site)
Tubli.net (Village discussion forum)
Rezgar.com (Secular modernist discussion)
Bahrain Center for Human Rights -- For details see here
Annaqed.com
FreeCopts.net (Christian Coptic blog)
ArabChurch.com (Christian website)
LaDeeni.net (Atheist website)
AlBawaba.com (News)
KurdTimes.com (Kurdish secular website)
Shahrakkan.org (Village discussion forum)
Arab Network for Human Rights Information
BintJbeil.org (Shia Islamic site)
alThaqlain.com (Shia Islamic site)
National Democratic Action Society ("Wa'ad") (Secular opposition political society)
AlDuraz.net (Village discussion forum)

Source last updated on 9 May 2007.