6 August 2017 – The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s silence on the sentencing of human rights figure Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain has been called “appalling” in a lett... Read more
23 March 2017 – Update – After a 24-hour detention, Mohammad Al-sheikh was released from police custody. 22 March 2017 – Multi-award winning photojournalist Mohammad Al-She... 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
10 October 2016 – Bahraini authorities arrested journalist and social media activist Faisal Hayyat yesterday after he was summoned over a tweet. The Public Prosecution today remanded H... Read more
The Human Rights Council concluded yesterday 19 September its general debate on Item 4: Human Rights Situations That Require The Council’s Attention. During the debate, speakers raise... Read more
13 September 2016 – BIRD’s Director of Advocacy, Sayed Alwadaei, today delivered an oral intervention under item 3 on arbitrary detention in Bahrain at the 33rd session of the Hu... Read more
21 January 2016 – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) today wrote to FIFA’s eight leading sponsors raising serious concern regarding Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa... Read more
2 January 2016 – London – The Government of Saudi Arabia executed reformist cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr today, along with 46 other persons. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in... Read more
25 October 2015 – London – Amidst allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, the President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) an... Read more
29 September 2015, London – Jeremy Corbyn called to question the Conservative government’s “uncritical support” to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in his Labour conference speech... Read more
