BCHR at HRC33: Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders
On 23 September, Maryam al-Khawaja, Co-Director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), delivered an oral intervention at the 33rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva under...
View ArticleBCHR at HRC33: Bahrain Did Not Follow Up on Recommendations
On 23 September, Erin Sigmon from Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrian (ADHRB), delivered an oral intervention at the 33rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva...
View ArticleHRC Member States Condemn Bahraini Measures against Opposition
More member states at the UN Human Rights Council condemned on Monday (September 19, 2016), the measures adopted by the Bahraini authorities against the Bahraini opposition and civil society...
View ArticleProminent HR Activist Nabeel Rajab to be Transferred to Deplorable Prison by...
Adam Rajab, son of prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, said that the detention authorities at the West Riffa Police Station notified his father of the decision to transfer him to the...
View ArticleBahrain: Foreign Minister glosses over rights record at UN General Assembly
27 September 2016 – Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa delivered a statement yesterday on behalf of the Kingdom of Bahrain at the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly. The...
View ArticleIndex on Censorship: Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab put in isolation ahead of 6...
On Sunday 25 September Nabeel Rajab was transferred from the West Riffa Police Station to solitary confinement in the East Riffa Police Station ahead of his sentencing next week.“It’s been over a...
View ArticleBahraini FM Denies Targeting Shiites, Says Gov’t Knows Better about Country...
The Bahraini Foreign Minister, Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, denied the existence of any measures practiced against Shiites or any discrimination against them. He further claimed that the Shiite...
View ArticleNabeel Rajab Held in Solitary Confinement in East Riffa Police Station
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights confirmed that the East Riffa prison authorities have placed the prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab in solitary confinement, indicating that he was...
View ArticleBCHR at HRC33: On Discrimination Faced by Afro-Bahrainis
On 26 September, Asma Darwish, Advocacy Officer at Bahrain Center for Human RIghts, delivered an oral intervention together with the Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and the...
View ArticleBCHR at HRC33: On Sectarian Discrimination in Bahrain
On 27 September, Asma Darwish, Advocacy Officer at Bahrain Center for Human RIghts, delivered an oral intervention on behalf of ADHRB at the 33rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in...
View ArticleBahrain: One Year in prison for each day at Duraz sit-in
The Prosecution of Duraz Protesters Continues: 11 Verdicts so far.Bahrain’s courts continue to convict protesters over their peaceful participation in the ongoing Duraz sit-in. The Bahrain Center for...
View Article64 Academics from 20 Countries Urge Ban Ki-moon to Interfere to Stop...
A group of 64 researchers and academics from 20 different countries sent a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, expressing their concern regarding the recent repressive measures taken...
View ArticleBCHR: 22 Citizens Arrested in 1 Week, Court Rules Total of 140 Years of...
Head of the monitoring and documentation unit at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Inas Aoun, said that 22 citizens were arrested in the past week (October 19-25, 2016), among which was a...
View ArticleBCHR at HRC33: Bahrain Hostile to OHCHR's Cooperation Programs
On 29 September Asma Darwish, Advocacy Officer at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) delivered an oral intervention at the 33rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva...
View ArticleInvest NI company 'must suspend Bahrain work' - Reprieve
An international human rights group has called on a company owned by Invest NI to immediately suspend a contract to train security forces in Bahrain. Reprieve says police and prison officers in the...
View ArticleUK trained hundreds of guards working at Bahrain’s death row jail: Report
Anti-death penalty charity report also highlights links with other repressive regimes, including EU-funded project in EgyptThe UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office funded training for hundreds of...
View ArticleReprieve: UK trained hundreds of guards at Bahrain’s death row prison, new...
The FCO funded training for hundreds of prison guards at Bahrain’s death row jail, where an innocent man faces imminent execution after ‘confessing’ under torture, a new report by anti-death penalty...
View ArticleHuman Rights Defenders Continuously Targeted by Bahraini Authorities, Despite...
On the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence, on 2 October 2016, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses grave concern for the continued targeting of human rights defenders and...
View ArticleNabeel Rajab to undergo surgery on Monday
Bahrain Mirror: The president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab will undergo a surgery on Monday (September 3, 2016) after his health deteriorated due to being held in poor conditions in...
View ArticleLockheed's Jet Sale to Bahrain Blocked for Human Rights Violations
The Obama administration has told Congress it won’t complete approval for Bahrain to buy as many as 19 F-16 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. and upgrades for older ones for almost $4 billion...
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