NGOs Send Letter to UN Human Rights Council on Bahrain
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council...
View ArticleBahrain hit by protests on uprising anniversary
An explosion wounded two civilian passers-by in Bahrain, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, as demonstrators marked the sixth anniversary of an anti-government uprising that was bloodily...
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Bahrain: Violent Attacks on the Protests on the Sixth Anniversary of...
*******Warning -graphic materialBahraini security forces have continued to respond to ongoing and increasing protests with excessive force, leading to serious injuries. Such attacks and injuries have...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Condemns Executions in Bahrain
16 February 2017 - The European Parliament has voted through a Resolution on Executions in Kuwait and Bahrain condemning the recent executions in these countries. We, the undersigned, welcome the...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament - Human rights: Nicaragua, executions in Kuwait and...
Executions in Kuwait and BahrainThe European Parliament strongly condemns the executions of seven people by the Kuwaiti authorities on 25 January 2017 and the executions of three people in Bahrain on...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch: Activist's Speech-Charges Trial to Resume
The trial of the prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is scheduled to resume on February 21, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. He faces a total of 18 years in prison based on two...
View ArticleThe Trump team's deal with Bahrain could ignore its human rights abuses
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson professed in his Senate confirmation testimony that “our values are our interests when it comes to human rights.” Yet one of his State Department’s first acts may be to...
View ArticleBahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s trial to resume after nine postponements
Geneva-Paris - Nabeel Rajab is being prosecuted for exercising his right to freedom of expression and denouncing human rights violations perpetrated by the Bahraini authorities. His arbitrary detention...
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Bahrain: 16-year-old Abbas Oun Arbitrarily Arrested and Subjected to Enforced...
A 16-year-old boy, Abbas Oun, has been subjected to enforced disappearance since his arrest six days ago. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) calls on the government of Bahrain to end the...
View ArticleBahrain Lawmakers Approve Military Trials for Civilians
Lawmakers in Bahrain have backed changing the constitution in a way that would allow civilians to be tried by military courts amid a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.The 40-seat Council of...
View ArticleBahrain Lawmakers Approve Military Trials for Civilians
Bahraini lawmakers voted Tuesday to change the constitution to allow civilians to be tried in military courts, further empowering its security forces amid a crackdown on dissent at level unseen since...
View ArticleBahrain courts postpone trial of HRD Nabeel Rajab, deny bail
21 February 2017 - This morning, the Government of Bahrain again postponed the two trials of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab. Bahrain courts have brought two cases against Rajab for exercising his...
View ArticleConstitutional Amendment Frees Military Courts to Try Civilians
The lower house of Bahrain’s parliament has approved a constitutional amendment removing restrictions the ability of military courts to try civilians. The amendment, which is reported to have been...
View ArticleBalancing Bahrain’s human rights and security concerns
Six years have passed since Bahrain witnessed an “uprising” that engulfed the small Gulf nation, inspired by calls for regime change across the Arab world. The Sunni monarchy quashed the protesting...
View ArticleBahrain lawmakers approve military trial for civilians
Bahraini lawmakers voted to change the constitution to allow civilians to be tried in military courts on Tuesday, further empowering its security forces amid a crackdown on dissent at unseen levels...
View ArticleBahrain parliament backs military trials for civilians
Civilians in Bahrain may soon be tried in military courts, in a move condemned by rights groups as bringing in "undeclared martial law".The lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to amend the...
View Article20 arrested as Bahrain approves military trial of civilians
Bahraini police have arrested 20 people in a crackdown on Shiite villages, as legislators approved a constitutional amendment that could see civilians tried in military courts in the Sunni-ruled...
View ArticleBahrain: Proposed Military Trials of Civilians
Bahrain’s Council of Representatives on February 21, 2017, approved an amendment to Bahrain’s Constitution that would enable military courts to try civilians, in violation of international fair trial...
View ArticleBahrain: Activist Back in Detention: Nader Abdulemam
Bahraini activist Nader Abdulemam was arrested on 18 February and taken to Jaw prison to serve the remaining four and a half months of a prison sentence handed down to him for participating in and...
View ArticleBahrain’s Final Kiss Goodbye to Pretense of the Rule of Law
We’ve seen this before, and it doesn’t end well. Bahrain is about to amend its constitution to allow civilians to be tried in military courts. Hundreds of civilians were tried by the military during...
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