A Crime Outside Coverage: Report Monitoring Grave Violations in Supressing Al...
The four Bahraini human rights organisations, Salam Organization for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM), Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) and Gulf In itute...
View ArticleBahrain: Political Detainees between Suffering and Deprivation of Medical Care
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses great concerns over the increasing complaints of political detainees over depriving them of medical care in Bahrain’s prisons and refusing to take...
View ArticleCARAM Asia Media Statement on International Migrants Day 2017 for the...
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View ArticleBahrain: Human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja faces reprisals in...
One of Bahrain’s most prominent human rights defenders, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, who is serving a life sentence for his human rights work, has protested unfair prison regulations. We, the undersigned,...
View ArticleJulie Gromellon – Head of international relations - BHCR
BCHR IS very concerned by the fact that the Bahraini authorities are using the counter-terrorism law to try ordinary civilians before Military courts and is using it as tool to suppress the political...
View ArticleBahrain:Secret military courts sentence civilians forced to confess under...
The general principles of the Comparative International Law and the International Bill on the judiciary and trials warn of trying civilians in military courts or extending the application of special...
View ArticleBahrain: Relatives of exiled activists continue to be targeted amid ongoing...
The signatory human rights organizations express their condemnation over the continued targeting and harassment of human rights defenders and their families. "Human rights defenders have been subjected...
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Bahraini courts strip 26 of their nationalities on three consecutive days
Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses great concerns over continuously revoking the nationalities of human rights activists, political prisoners and whoever dares to declare critical...
View ArticleBahrain: Reverse Nabeel Rajab’s Prison Sentence
Court Rejects his Appeal Despite ill-treatment in prison On January 15, 2018, in an appeals hearing that lasted only about ten minutes, a Bahraini Court rejected Nabeel Rajab’s appeal of a 2-year...
View ArticleTHE OBSERVATORY
Bahrain: Fears for Nabeel Rajab’s life inside his prisonBeirut - Paris - Geneva, January 25, 2018: According to a credible confidential source, Bahraini authorities have planned to interfere with...
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THE OBSERVATORY
Bahrain: Fears for Nabeel Rajab’s life inside his prisonBeirut - Paris - Geneva, January 25, 2018: According to a credible confidential source, Bahraini authorities have planned to interfere with...
View ArticleFIDH and BCHR strongly condemn an unprecedent wave of death sentences in Bahrain
Manama, Paris, 1 February 2018 : Bahrain has witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of capital punishment since 2017, and recent executions mark a dangerous return to the death penalty after a halt...
View ArticleBahrain: abusive convictions of four women on terrorism charges
Beirut, February 2, 2017: On January 31, Muna Habib, Hamida Alkhor, Amira AlQashaami and Faten Hussein were convicted and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for allegedly covering up for male family...
View ArticleBahrain: On 7th anniversary of beginning of popular movement, NGOs call for...
On the 7th anniversary of the peaceful popular movement of the Bahraini people which started on 14 February 2011, the undersigned NGOs call on the international community to help free human rights...
View ArticleNew crackdown marks 7th Anniversary of Bahrain Uprising
Yesterday, while Bahrainis were commemorating the uprising anniversary, security forces, once again resort to force to break up peaceful marches using tear gas and live ammunition and leaving several...
View ArticleBahrain: Risk of Death Penalty
The Christian Coalition for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT) makes an urgent appeal to stop the death sentences in BahrainOn the 21st of February 2018, the military’s high court of appeals of Bahrain...
View ArticleInternship available at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights in Copenhagen
The BCHR has been working to protect and promote human rights in Bahrain for more than eleven years – we are the oldest and largest human rights organization in the country. In 2011, when the...
View ArticleThe price for speaking out: Nabeel Rajab sentenced to 5 years for tweeting in...
Beirut-Geneva-Paris, February 21, 2018 - Today in Bahrain, prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, BCHR President and FIDH Deputy Secretary General, was sentenced to 5 years in prison under...
View ArticleBahrain: Nabeel Rajab sentenced to five more years in prison for tweeting in...
Prominent Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to a further five years in prison on 21 February 2018, during a verdict that an observer called unusual, as the lawyer was not...
View Article2018 International Women’s Day: BCHR asks Bahrain to stop using...
Documenting human rights violations in a country like Bahrain has become an extremely challenging and dangerous task. Since February 2011, Bahraini authorities have banned international human rights...
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