By the time the CNN crew arrived, many of the sources who had agreed to speak to them were either in hiding or had disappeared. Regime opponents whom they interviewed suffered recriminations, as did ordinary citizens who worked with them as fixers. Leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was charged with crimes shortly after speaking to the CNN team. A doctor who gave the crew a tour of his village and arranged meetings with government opponents, Saeed Ayyad, had his house burned to the ground shortly after. Their local fixer was fired ten days after working with them.
The Guardian - Glenn Greenwald, 9/4/12
A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network
A Bahraini protester in Manama. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images
In late March 2011, as the Arab Spring was spreading, CNN sent a four-person crew to Bahrain to produce a one-hour documentary on the use of internet technologies and social media by democracy activists in the region. Featuring on-air investigative correspondent Amber Lyon, the CNN team had a very eventful eight-day stay in that small, US-backed kingdom.
More: guardian.co.uk.
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I wanted to add...
... that we have posted several articles about unrest in Bahrain recently (if they are videos, they may appear twice in this list). One video is called, 'Real Arab Spring in Bahrain which West ignores.'
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/democracy-bahrain-will-threaten-saudi-arabia-analyst
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/real-arab-spring-bahrain-which-west-ignores
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/category/tags/bahrain
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/bahrain-people-want-power-back-protests-swell-face-crackdown
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/bahraini-police-fire-tear-gas-thousands-protesters-photos-video