Category: Women Detainees

Rights Groups Urge the UN High Commissioner to Intervene in Mistreatment of Female Activists in Bahrain

Posted date: October 18, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

18 October 2018 – Today, 9 NGOs including the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), wrote to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Experts, urging them to publi... Read more

Female Detainees’ Response to the Statement Issued by the National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR)

Posted date: October 04, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, International Engagement, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

4 October 2018 – Yesterday, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) received a phone call from Isa Town Prison. In this phone call, inmates Hajer Mansoor, Medina Ali and Najah... Read more

ADHRB, BIRD and ECDHR Condemn the NIHR’s Whitewashing of Human Rights Abuses in Bahraini Prisons

Posted date: October 02, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Freedom from Torture, Human Rights Defenders, Najah Ahmed Yousif, Press Releases, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

2 October 2018 – Yesterday, the Bahrain National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) issued a statement denying the allegations of mistreatment reported by three women in Bahrain’s Isa Town... Read more

BAHRAIN: Further Retaliation Against Female Political Prisoner Following UN Secretary General’s Report

Posted date: September 19, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Ebtisam Al-Sayegh, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Najah Ahmed Yousif, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

19 September 2018 – On 16 September, female political prisoner Hajer Mansoor Hassan, mother-in-law of UK-based activist Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, was subjected to assault and retaliation,... Read more

Reprisals Against Bahraini Female Prisoner Escalate, as Her Son-in-Law Sayed Alwadaei Engages With the UN and the UK Parliament

Posted date: July 13, 2018in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Case Studies, Casework, EUP, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, News, Press Releases, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

13 July 2018 – On 5 July, Bahraini female political prisoner, Hajer Mansoor, was subjected to further threats and reprisals by Major Maryam Albardoli, the head of Isa Town Prison Centr... Read more

Sexually Assaulted Bahraini Female Activist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison over Facebook Comments Criticizing Formula One Race in Bahrain

Posted date: June 25, 2018in: Advocacy, Case Studies, Casework, F1, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Najah Ahmed Yousif, News, Press Releases, UK, Women DetaineesNo Comments

25 June 2018 – Today, Bahrain’s Fourth Criminal Court handed down three-year sentence to female political activist, Najah Ahmed Yousif, on politically motivated charges. Judge Ali Aldh... Read more

Bahrain: Four Women Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment for Politically Motivated Charges

Posted date: February 21, 2018in: Advocacy, Casework, Freedom from Torture, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

21 February 2018 – Today, the Bahraini High Criminal Court sentenced four women to three years imprisonment for hiding fugitives. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy... Read more

BAHRAIN: Women Political Prisoners Boycott Visitation As Prison U-Turns and Reinstates Glass Barrier Blocking Family Embrace

Posted date: November 09, 2017in: Alwadaei Family, Statements, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

9 November 2017 – Bahraini women political prisoners boycotted family visits today, after the Isa Town Women’s Prison administration reinstated a glass barrier in the visitation centre that... Read more

Hajar Mansoor Hassan’s Health Suffers In 4th Day Of Hunger Strike, As 30 October Court Date Approaches

Posted date: October 27, 2017in: Alwadaei Family, Casework, Statements, Women DetaineesNo Comments

27 October 2017 – The health of Bahrain’s women hunger strikers has deteriorated today as they continue their campaign for better treatment, which has entered its fourth day. Tod... Read more

Women Prisoners Declare Hunger Strike In Protest of Prison Conditions and Ill-Treatment

Posted date: October 27, 2017in: Statements, TimeLine, Women DetaineesNo Comments

27 October 2017 – Five political detainees in Bahrain’s Isa Town Women’s Prison entered the fourth day of a hunger strike today in protest of glass barriers in the visitation centre and thei... Read more

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