Bahrain has arrested family members of several political prisoners over peaceful protest activity, including father and brother of death row torture survivor Mohammed Ramadhan Three brothers... Read more
Update as of 29 March 2021 On 28 March 2021, Bahrain experienced the largest single-day rise in new Coronavirus cases since the pandemic first began, with 1027 new cases confirmed Vast major... Read more
22 March 2021 – A disciplinary board in Bahrain has arbitrarily revoked the legal licence of prominent Bahraini defence lawyer Abdullah Al-Shamlawi for one year, amid a government crac... Read more
11 March 2021 – The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in a plenary session today to adopt an urgent resolution condemning human rights abuses in Bahrain, including the incre... Read more
11 March 2021 – A Bahraini court has handed seriously ill 16-year old Sayed Hasan Ameen and three other juveniles a 6-month imprisonment but granted a request by their lawyers for non-... Read more
(London) 10 March 2021 – Bahrain police beat children arrested in protest-related cases in February 2021 and threatened them with rape and electric shocks, the Bahrain Institute for Ri... Read more
15 rights groups have written to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging him to address a severe deterioration of human rights in Bahrain by adopting a rights-based foreign policy towar... Read more
26 February 2021 – A judge at Southwark Crown Court upheld the conviction on 24 February 2021 of Bahraini photojournalist and refugee Moosa Mohammed for trespassing on the roof of Bahr... Read more
Father of Ali Mushaima, 21-year old Bahraini who was first individual killed by police on 14 February 2011 during Bahrain’s Arab Spring uprising; Abdulhadi Mushaima, 57 years old, suf... Read more
14 February 2021 – A Bahraini judge has renewed the detention of two 13-year old children, Mohammed Rashid and Husain Ayoob, for a further 7 days following their arrest a week ago over... Read more
