15 December 2016 – This past year the Government of Bahrain drastically increased its suppression of Bahraini civil and political society. Today, Bahraini human rights organizations st... Read more
12 December 2016 – An appeals court today upheld the arbitrary 9-year sentence against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman following an extended and flawed re-trial. The Bahraini government... Read more
9 December 2016 – NGOs yesterday sent a letter today to President Obama, calling on his administration to address human rights violations with Bahraini officials during the Manama Dialogue t... Read more
27 October 2016 – The Government of Bahrain yesterday decreased the sentence of Fadhel Abbas, former Secretary-General of the al-Wahdawi Political Society. Courts originally sentenced Abbas... Read more
Manama – 30 May 2016, the Bahraini Court of Appeal toughened the sentence against Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary-General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, to nine years in prison, in... Read more
31 October 2015 – Construction began today on Britain’s new Royal Navy base in Bahrain, despite ongoing controversies. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Foreign Minister Sheik... Read more
Last year marked the first general elections to be held in Bahrain since the pro-democracy uprising of 2011. Since the election, which has been named amongst the worst elections in 2014 alo... Read more
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) express concern over the... Read more
