One Torturer to Another: Kissinger Honors Bahrain FM With Award
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger—known for orchestrating bloody coups and wars—awarded Bahrain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa with a Lifetime Achievement Award...
View ArticleBahrain top court rejects release of opposition chief
Bahrain's top court rejected Monday a request to release Shiite opposition chief cleric Ali Salman, who is serving a nine-year jail term on charges of inciting hatred and forceful regime change.The...
View ArticleSerious concerns over trial on 6 October of prominent Bahraini human rights...
On 6 October 2016, the Bahrain High Criminal Court will hear the case of Nabeel Rajab, leading human rights defender, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Founding Director of the...
View ArticleHRW: Why No Outcry Over Nabeel Rajab?
In January 2014, Stephen Colbert interviewed Human Rights Watch’s executive director Ken Roth and asked him who the next Nelson Mandela would be. Alongside the Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, he...
View ArticleNabeel Rajab's Trial postponed for the third time, today
Nabeel Rajab, leading human rights defender, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Founding Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and Deputy Secretary General of FIDH,...
View ArticleU.S. Government Urged to Link F-16 Sales to Bahrain to Release of Prominent...
Human Rights First today urged the U.S. government to link the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain to the acquittal of jailed Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, who faces a verdict...
View ArticleCourts Postpone Sentencing of Nabeel Rajab to 31 October - Unfair Trial and...
6 October 2016 - A Bahraini high criminal court today postponed the sentencing of Nabeel Rajab to 31 October. No reason was provided for the postponement. The leading human rights defender faces up to...
View ArticleBCHR Condemns Bahraini Authorities’ Continued Targeting of Human Rights...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expressed on the International Day of Non-Violence, marked October 2, 2016, its grave concern for the continued targeting of human rights defenders and civil...
View ArticleBCHR Condemns Imprisonment of Women’s Rights Defender Ghada Jamsheer
“The judges, who all don’t want to be involved in the case, say that the lawsuits should not have proceeded in the first place. This only means the cases against me are all false.” The Bahrain Center...
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As the Religious Season of the month of Muharram begins, Bahrain increases...
Duraz is still under lockdown, with checkpoints in entrances, and only its residents allowed in.The Bahraini authorities are still enforcing a lockdown on Duraz, which has continued for more than 100...
View ArticleJailed Bahraini human rights activist waits in legal limbo
Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab who faces 15 years in prison for criticising Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen must wait three more weeks for the verdict of his trial.Read the full...
View ArticleBahrain detains man for "defamatory" sectarian tweet
Officials in Bahrain say a man has been detained for writing a post on Twitter that may have contained "defamatory statements" against one of the country's main Muslim sects.Read full article here....
View ArticleThousands Commemorate Ashura outside Bahraini Shiite Spiritual Leader's House
Thousands of Bahraini citizens continue to commemorate Ashura outside the house of Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim in Diraz. Photos circulated on social media networks...
View ArticleAuthorities Prevent Shiites from Performing Biggest Friday Prayers in Diraz
Bahrain's security forces prevented on Friday (October 7, 2016) the Shiite majority from performing the biggest Friday prayers, after they banned the Friday prayers Imam and worshippers from entering...
View ArticleJournalist and Social Media Activist Arrested after Writing Critical Letter...
10 October 2016 - Bahraini authorities arrested journalist and social media activist Faisal Hayyat yesterday after he was summoned over a tweet. The Public Prosecution today remanded Hayyat in custody...
View ArticleBHRS: 7 Sentenced to Death in Bahrain Face Poor, Death-like Prison Conditions
The Bahrain Human Rights Society said in a statement issued Monday (October 11, 2016) on the World Day Against the Death Penalty, that since 2009 until today, the Kingdom of Bahrain has not witnessed...
View ArticlePublic Prosecution Detains Journalist Faisal Hayyat for 7 Days Pending...
The Public Prosecution decided on Monday (October 10, 2016) to detain journalist Faisal Hayyat for 7 days pending investigation.The Bahraini authorities arrested on Sunday (October 9, 2016) Hayyat, few...
View ArticleBahrain Watch - Ongoing Internet Curfew in Duraz for more than 100 Days
In August, Bahrain Watch published a report providing technical evidence that Bahrain’s ISPs were deliberately disrupting fixed-line connections, and shutting down mobile data services, every night...
View ArticleBahrain’s New Approach in Dealing with UN: “Everything’s Over between Us”
Bahrain continues to express arrogance when addressing the United Nations. The Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifa said on Tuesday (August 30, 2016) that his country "will...
View ArticleAuthorities Release Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, Ask him to Return to Police...
The Bahraini authorities released on Monday (October 10, 2016) Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, Head of Religious Freedom Unit in the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), after 6 hours of...
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