Bahrain called it security, but the arrests, the torture case and the cancelled citizenships show a throne terrified of its own majority. Right, so a thirty-two-year-old man went out for a meal before dawn during Ramadan, with his cousin and a mate, and nine days later his parents got a phone call from a military hospital telling them to come in. They weren't told why. They turned up and found their son on a slab. Sayed Mohamed Almosawi, small business owner, and his body was covered in bruises and deep wounds, discoloured, black in places. An expert from a medical human rights group, the sort of people who do exactly this for a living, looked at the photographs and videos, alongside the official death report, and said the injuries were highly consistent with torture, and ruled out the heart attack the authorities claimed had killed him. That is  ...