Peaceful Activists Face Inhumane Conditions in Bahrain’s Overcrowded Central...
By Benjamin Weiner, Human Rights FirstThe main penitentiary in Bahrain, Jaw Prison, is 34 percent over capacity, according to a September 2013 report by an Ombudsman’s office within the Bahraini...
View ArticleAmnesty Int'l: Bahrain: The high price of telling hard truths
Soon after the popular uprising began in Bahrain in 2011, 13 opposition leaders were arrested. Their ‘crime’ was expressing their opinions peacefully: calling for democracy, an end to corruption,...
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Bahrain: Ministry Of Education Bans Schools From Publishing News And Photos...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern for the persistence of official bodies in restricting freedom of expression on the Internet in Bahrain in an attempt to conceal evidence of...
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Bahrain: Authorities Detain Two Children Under the Age of Fifteen in...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is appalled by the continuous arrests and detention of children under the age of 18 on arbitrary charges in blatant disregard to the international treaties that...
View ArticleBahrain's Activists Survive Off the Island
By: Marc AbizeidPublished Wednesday, December 18, 2013 on http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/bahrain-activists-survive-islandOn-the-ground sources are running out fast in Bahrain. Those who have not...
View ArticleGerman OECD National Contact Point unwilling to investigate role of German...
Source: Reporters Without Borders - Fri, 20 Dec 2013 02:56 AMAuthor: Reporters Without BordersA complaint filed with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against Trovicor...
View ArticleAl-Khawaja Reveals a Failed Deal for their Release
Published as received - In the context of discussing the struggle of the African leader Nelson Mandela, and as an example of the double standards of some of those who celebrate him these days, the...
View ArticleNabeel Rajab wrote to Ales Bialiatski
From Jaw prison in Bahrain, Nabeel Rajab, FIDH Deputy Secretary General, wrote to Ales Bialiatski, FIDH Vice-President, who has been imprisoned for more than 2 years in Belarus.My colleague, my friend,...
View ArticleAmnesty Int'l: Bahrain: Children detained for "rioting"
UA: 343/13 Index: MDE 11/059/2013 Bahrain Date: 20 December 2013Two Bahraini boys, Jehad Nabeel al-Samee’ and ‘Abdullah Yousif al-Bahraini, are being held in a juvenile detention centre for...
View ArticleBahrain: Letter from Mary Lawlor to Abdulhadi Al Khawaja - You are not forgotten
Dear AbdulhadiI know that you won't get this letter but I hope that you will at least hear of it. I just want you to know that you are not forgotten and that your friends and former colleagues in Front...
View ArticleBahrain: One Year Imprisonment For A Doctor For “Insulting The King”
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern over the authorities attack on freedom of expression. Dr. Saeed Al-Semahiji was recently tried and sentenced on the charge of "insulting the...
View ArticleBahrain: Detainee Muneer Habib Thrown Out of Court after Testifying against...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern for the Public Prosecution and Court in Bahrain continued fabrication of malicious cases and mock trials that lack the foundations of a fair...
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Bahrain: After Torturing and Defaming him, Ali Al-Haji Faces an Unjust Trial...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its deep concern for the authorities in Bahrain continued fabrication of malicious cases against activists and citizens; to punish them for peacefully...
View ArticleCPJ: Bahrain arrests photographer Ahmed Al-Fardan
New York, December 27, 2013-- Ahmed Al-Fardan, photographer for the NurPhotoagency, was arrested Thursday at his home in Bahrain, according to his agency, news reports, and human rights groups. The...
View ArticleBahrain court acquits princess on trial for torturing doctors
Fri, Dec 27 05:58 AM ESTDUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini court has acquitted two police officers, including a Bahraini princess, who were on trial for torturing doctors while in detention during political...
View ArticleBahrain: Arrest of 13 year old Children and Detaining them for More than Two...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern for the Authority’s in Bahrain continued targeting and arresting of children, where the security apparatuses arrested the two 13 year old...
View ArticleBCHR Publishes Report On Prosecutions For 'Insulting The King'
Read the full text pdf here.The authorities in Bahrain have been escalating the crackdown on freedom of expression; with most cases seen at court being over vague charges related to freedom of...
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Bahrain: Urgent Appeal: Fear of Torture During First Days Of Arrest; No...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights issues an urgent appeal regarding the individuals who have been arrested in four cases recently announced by the Ministry of Interior. As has been seen in the past...
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Bahrain: Hussein Al-Durazi a Victim of Abuse upon Arrest, Interrogation and...
Urgent Appeal to Stop the Violations Practiced by Officers inside PrisonThe Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its concern for the information received about beating and insulting the detainees...
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Bahrain: Urgent Appeal to Reveal the Whereabouts of the Two Detained...
The International Award-winning Ahmed Al-Fardan is subjected to Enforced Disappearance as a Punishment for Practicing his Profession on GroundThe Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses it concern...
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