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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

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

Cross-Party Leaders Call for End to UK Training to Bahrain Amid Abuse of Female Activists

Posted date: November 08, 2019in: Advocacy, Ebtisam Al-Sayegh, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, In the Press, International Engagement, News, Parliament Watch, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

8 November 2019 – Women activists and human rights defenders in Bahrain have been subjected to “serious crimes” including physical and sexual assault while the UK’s policies “enable h... Read more

Parliamentary Event – The Crackdown on Human Rights in Bahrain

Posted date: October 18, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Death Penalty, EUP, Events, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, Parliament Watch, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Revocation of Citizenship, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments

18 October – Yesterday, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) co-hosted an event at Parliament to highlight... Read more

Early Day Motion 241 Free Speech in Bahrain

Posted date: July 22, 2015in: Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, International Engagement, Parliament Watch, UKNo Comments

FREE SPEECH IN BAHRAIN Session: 2015-16 Date tabled: 02.07.2015 Primary sponsor: MacNeil, Angus Sponsors: Day, Martyn, Bottomley, Peter, Edwards, Jonathan, Donaldson, Stuart, Saville... Read more

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