The five year-sentencing of Bahrain’s leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on 21 February 2018 has attracted widespread international attention. A number of European states, including... Read more
4 April 2018, Bahrain today refused entry to Lars Aslan Rasmussen, a Danish Member of Parliament, and to Brian Dooley of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), claiming the two posed a... Read more
26 March 2018 – Today, Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 9 defendants, including Sayed Nizar Alwadaei (19), the brother in law of prominent Bahraini activist Sayed Ahmed... Read more
23 March 2018 – Female prisoner Medina Ali (28) on the second day of her hunger strike against ill-treatment in Isa Town Prison was stripped naked in a humiliating manner after a fami... Read more
Hajer Mansoor hospitalised on her third day of hunger strike Madina Ali joined the hunger strike over discrimination treatment Duaa Alwadaei convicted yesterday, Sayed Alwadaei published an... Read more
Bahrain: Wife of UK-based Bahraini Human Rights Defender Convicted as Reprisals Escalate 21 March 2018 – Today, a Bahraini Criminal Court convicted and sentenced Duaa Alwadaei t... Read more
Mother-in-law of UK-based Bahraini Activist Declares Hunger Strike, as her Mistreatment Continues 20 March 2018 – The “collective punishment” of family members of UK-based Bahra... Read more
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
21 February 2018 – Today, the Bahrain High Criminal Court sentenced leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab to five years imprisonment for expressing critical comments on social med... 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
