(25.05.) Two well-known reporters were arrested Sunday and beaten – Nazeeha Saeed, who reports for the Arabic language service of France24, an all news French television channel, and Mazen Mahdi, who reports for the German press agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur and the U.S. publication Defense News.

Saeed was held until 2 a.m. Monday, and, according to human rights activists in Bahrain, subjected to electric shock. On Monday, the French Embassy lodged a complaint with the Bahrain government, which subsequently announced it had launched an investigation into the alleged abuse, activists said.