On 2 July, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf, chaired by Karen Lee MP, collaborated with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD... Read more
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
21 June 2018 – Today, Bahrain’s High Criminal Court acquitted the leader of Bahrain’s dissolved opposition party Al-Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, of politically motivated charges related t... Read more
King Hamad of Bahrain to attend Royal Windsor Horse Show this weekend The Bahraini regime has an appalling human rights record and has supported the Saudi-led bombing of Yemen UK has license... Read more
20 February 2018 – 25 members of the UK Parliament wrote to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson today, urging him to publicly call for the release of leading rights defender Nabeel Rajab and to... Read more
14 September 2017 – Turning a blind eye to human rights in trade and security deals in the Gulf engenders violence and instability, warns a London-based rights group in letters to four... Read more
14 December 2016 – NGOs today wrote a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May to urge the UK Government to call for the unconditional release of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, who fa... Read more
7 December 2016 – Theresa May’s landmark speech in Bahrain today suggests little real change for the UK-Gulf relationship, with human rights set to take a back seat. Speaking in... Read more
5 December 2016 – Rights groups are writing to Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of her visit to Bahrain on Tuesday 6 December urging her to raise human rights as she attends the Gulf C... Read more
