14 June 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s lawyers and diplomatic observers walked out of the courtroom of his trial-in-absentia today, as his sentencing for speaking to journalists looms. Th... Read more
13 June 2017 – On the anniversary of Nabeel Rajab’s arrest, Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, Index on Censorship and 12 other NGOs have today written to UN Member and... Read more
30 May 2017 – Bahrain’s criminal courts today denied Nabeel Rajab bail and for the eighth time postponed his trial, in which he is prosecuted for speaking to journalists, to 12... Read more
19 May 2017 – Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court will reconvene on Sunday, 21 May, to hold the 13th trial in the case against the country’s most prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa... Read more
17 May 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s trial for tweeting about the Saudi-led war in Yemen was today postponed to 14 June, according to his lawyer. Rajab, who also faced trial yesterday in... Read more
16 May 2017 – Bahrain’s criminal courts today denied Nabeel Rajab bail and postponed his trial, in which he is prosecuted for speaking to journalists, to 30 May. Rajab, who was h... Read more
15 May 2017 – Nabeel Rajab faces trials for speaking to journalists and tweeting this week, days after the UN’s top anti-torture experts called for his “release from detent... Read more
20 March 2017 – Political opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif was today charged with “inciting hatred against the regime” under article 165 of Bahrain’s penal code for m... Read more
8 March 2017 – In his report to the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council today, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, raised the “increasing levels of huma... Read more
6 March 2017 – The Government of Bahrain has today launched legal proceedings to dissolve Wa’ad, the country’s leading secular, leftist opposition society. The move follows the government’s... Read more
