Bahrain’s Information Affairs Authority today announced it has commissioned a UK-based legal firm to file a defamation case against the Independent newspaper. Nawaf Mohammed Al-Maawda, publications director-general said: “The Independent has deliberately published a series of unrealistic and provocative articles targeting Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” He claimed the newspaper, and in particular its Middle-East correspondent Robert Fisk had set out to tarnish Bahrain’s image.