Category: International Engagement

MP Demands Foreign Secretary Acts to End Medical Neglect of Prominent Political Prisoners in Bahrain

Posted date: December 21, 2020in: Bahrain 13, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, News, Political Prisoners, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

21 December 2020 – The chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf (DHRG), Brendan O’Hara MP, has written to UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab... Read more

Rights groups urge Asian Bloc to oppose Bahrain’s bid for Human Rights Council

Posted date: December 03, 2020in: International Engagement, News, Press Releases, TimeLine, UNNo Comments

1 December 2020 – 22 rights groups including Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the International Se... Read more

Cross-Party MPs call on Formula One to end Sportswashing in Bahrain

Posted date: November 25, 2020in: F1, Political Prisoners, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

30 UK cross-party parliamentarians have sent a letter to the CEO of Formula One, Chase Carey, urging him to leverage Bahrain into respecting human rights ahead of races there this weekend; T... Read more

18 Rights Groups Raise Bahrain Human Rights Concerns with Formula One

Posted date: November 25, 2020in: F1, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Political Prisoners, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

18 leading rights groups and trade unions sent a joint-letter to Formula One (F1) CEO Chase Carey urging F1 to act on human rights abuses in Bahrain ahead of upcoming races in the country Th... Read more

UK Makes U-Turn on Secretive Gulf Fund After MPs Condemn Opaque Payments to Abusive Gulf Regimes

Posted date: October 22, 2020in: Ali Al-Hajee, Bahrain 13, Death Penalty, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, News, Parliament Watch, Political Prisoners, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa promises to publish future summaries of activities funded by the secretive Integrated Activity Fund (IAF) in 2021, after refusing for... Read more

Photojournalist Assaulted During Bahrain Embassy Protest Convicted of Trespass

Posted date: September 24, 2020in: Advocacy, Death Penalty, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, International Engagement, Press Releases, TimeLineNo Comments

24 September 2020 – Today, Bahraini photojournalist Moosa Mohammed was convicted of trespass on a diplomatic premises by Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrate’s Cou... Read more

Bahrain: Joint Letter to Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council Delegates

Posted date: September 16, 2020in: Advocacy, Death Penalty, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Medical Negligence, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, Political Prisoners, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, UNNo Comments

Bahrain: Joint Letter to Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council Delegates Re: Upcoming 45th Session of the Human Rights Council September 15, 2020 Your Excel... Read more

BAHRAIN – TORTURE VICTIMS AT RISK OF EXECUTION IN BAHRAIN FOLLOWING COURT RULING

Posted date: July 13, 2020in: Death Penalty, Freedom from Torture, International Engagement, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, News, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

13 July 2020 – Bahrain’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has confirmed the reimposition of death sentences against torture victims Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa, who have no... Read more

Peers call on government to save lives of Bahraini torture victims

Posted date: July 08, 2020in: Advocacy, Death Penalty, International Engagement, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, News, Parliament Watch, Political Prisoners, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

8 July 2020 – This afternoon, crossbench peer Baroness D’Souza asked an urgent Private Notice Question to Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon at the House of Lords regarding Bahraini torture victi... Read more

Torture Survivor Faces Imminent Execution After Bahrain’s Highest Court Finalises Death Sentences Against Two, Reinstates Citizenship to One

Posted date: June 15, 2020in: Advocacy, Death Penalty, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, In the Press, International Engagement, Press Releases, TimeLine, UK, UNNo Comments

15 June 2020 – This morning, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest appeals court, upheld the death sentence against Zuhair Ibrahim Jasim Abdullah, a 40-year old former re... Read more

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