Nabeel Rajab Faces Absurd New Charges In Latest Attempt to Silence Jailed Critic
18 September 2017 – Nabeel Rajab faces a new set of absurd charges after Bahrain’s Public Prosecution charged him for social media posts on Twitter
18 September 2017 – Nabeel Rajab faces a new set of absurd charges after Bahrain’s Public Prosecution charged him for social media posts on Twitter
14 September 2017 – Turning a blind eye to human rights in trade and security deals in the Gulf engenders violence and instability, warns a
13 September 2017 – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and Amnesty International co-hosted
11 September 2017 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today condemned the Government of Bahrain’s crackdown on civil society and its use of
5 September 2017 – The UN today revealed its communications on Bahraini security officials’ arbitrary detention and torture of London-based human rights defender Sayed Ahmed
23 August 2017 – A group of international NGOs including Amnesty International and BIRD sent a letter today to the Bahraini government to request information
Ebtisam Al-Sayegh is hunger striking against her ill-treatment in Isa Town Women’s Prison, where she is isolated in filthy and poor conditions Her isolation in
6 August 2017 – The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s silence on the sentencing of human rights figure Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain has been called “appalling”
* Yusuf Al-Jamri made a plea to King Hamad about the torture he suffered at the hands of the National Security Agency on Thursday 3 August
19 July 2017 – Woman activist Ebtisam Al-Sayegh was charged yesterday under the anti-terrorism law after two weeks of daily interrogations and torture. Under the anti-terrorism law, she may be