Parliamentary Assembly: Three Candidates Shortlisted for the 2018 Václav...
The Parliamentary Assembly published a report "Three candidates shortlisted for the 2018 Václav Havel Prize" that talked about the 3 candidates "Rosa María Payá, Nabeel Rajab and Oyub Titiev" who were...
View ArticleJOINT STATEMENT: 127 Rights groups call for immediate release of Nabeel Rajab...
Paris-Geneva-Manama, 29 August 2018– For the second time since 2013, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an Opinion regarding the legality of the detention...
View ArticleThe Round Table: The Crime of Enforced Disappearance
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) organized in cooperation with SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights the “Round Table” in Beirut entitled “The Crime of Enforced Disappearance” on the occasion...
View ArticleBahrain Center for Human Rights: Enforced disappearance is a phenomenon that...
Denying the crime of enforced disappearance will not solve itThe Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses deep concern over the continuous cases of enforced disappearances since 2017 and 2018....
View ArticleA report by the Bahrain Center reveals violations by the military judiciary...
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights issued a new report entitled "Death Courts". The report was issued in Arabic and English to highlight violations of military justice and to try civilians before and...
View ArticleBahrain Center for Human Rights: Death penalty is a nightmare for Bahraini...
<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) issued a statement today, October 10, on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty. On this occasion, BCHR reiterated its request to...
View Article"No to death penalty" conference: 22 Bahraini citizens sentenced to death
<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights organized a press conference on the occasion of the "International Day Against the Death Penalty" with the participation of Maharat...
View ArticleJoint Letter by NGOs to Condemn Reprisals facing WHRDs
Ms. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High CommissionerMr. Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Prof. Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,...
View ArticleBahraini education unionist Jalila al Salman given EI’s Mary Hatwood Futrell...
Following democracy protests in Bahrain in February 2011, al Salman was unjustly imprisoned for six months. She was threatened, beaten and subject to acts of humiliation and torture by the authorities...
View ArticleBahraini NGOS Condemning the decision of Germany to deport Bahraini citizen...
Five Bahraini human rights organizations, signatories to this joint statement, express their deep concern at the information they received about the intention of the German authorities to deport...
View ArticleBahraini NGOS Condemning the decision of Germany to deport Bahraini citizen...
Five Bahraini human rights organizations, signatories to this joint statement, express their deep concern at the information they received about the intention of the German authorities to deport...
View ArticleReport of Bahrain Center revealIng violations against journalists
<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights issued a new report entitled "Press in Bahrain: The Usurpation of the Word". The report was published in Arabic and English to highlight...
View ArticleSpeech of Sheikh Maytham Al Salman at the inauguration of the Bahrain Report...
Held in Beirut - 23 November 2018.Sheikh Maytham Al Salman, President of the Bahrain Interfaith Cultivating Harmony and Bahrain Center for Human Rights Advisor, participated in the press conference...
View ArticleBahrain Center for Human Rights: 2018 Is the Year of Death Penalty
<p>Bahrain Center for Human Rights condemns the two death sentences issued today against Zuhair Ibrahim and Mohamed Mahdi. BCHR also deplores the Bahraini judiciary's insistence on...
View ArticleBahrain: Concern about the Increased Application of Death Penalty in Light of...
<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is gravely concerned about the Bahraini government continuing to issue death penalty sentences in light of the deteriorating political and human...
View ArticleBahrain Center for Human Rights calls on the Thai government to release...
<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is gravely concerned about the case of Mr. Hakeem Ali Mohamed Ali AlAraibi, a Bahrain-born individual who has since fled Bahrain and now lives as a...
View ArticleSheikh Maytham Al-Salman honored in the United Nations
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) congratulates Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman, the head of Bahrain Interfaith and member of the advisory panel for the BCHR, for being honored by the United Nations...
View ArticleBahrain: Domestic Workers Freedom of Religion and Worship Rights
<p>The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and Bahrain Interfaith condemn the government of Bahrain’s disregard for the growing abuse against female domestic workers in the Kingdom....
View ArticleOpen letter to Bahraini authorities: Drop all charges and release Nabeel Rajab
NGOs are concerned that, with Nabeel Rajab's appeal hearing scheduled on 31 December, authorities may be planning to increase his sentence under cover of the world's celebrations of the new year.We the...
View ArticleNew Year Not Likely Happy for Leading Gulf Rights Defenders
by Joe Stork It’s been a grim 2018 for partisans of free expression in the Gulf. The gruesome murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi by henchmen of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman rightly...
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