Manama: Two Bahrainis arrested for assaulting Ahmad Abu Zeitoun, the editor of Al Watan newspaper, said that they wanted to punish him for his views, the public prosecutor said.
"The duo have confessed before the public prosecutor and admitted that they had planned the attack as a revenge for Abu Zeitoun's published views," public prosecutor Abul Rahman Al Sayyed said.
The two men aged 27 and 21 will be remanded in custody for 60 days.
Al Watan daily, launched in December 2005, has been carrying pages highly critical of the instigators of the terror attacks and acts of sabotage that hit Bahrain over the last two weeks.
Abu Zeitoun, a Palestinian, was attacked as he was leaving the paper offices in East Rifaa on August 25. He was stabbed with a sharp object and his car was partly burnt in the attack.
The editor said that he was not sure whether he was targeted for being on the staff of the newspaper or for his person.
The head of the media authority, formerly the information ministry, visited the 31-year-old editor at his home to inquire about his condition while Al Watan daily received a deluge of good wishes and messages of sympathy, including from the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists.
