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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
Bahrain’s government confirms death of political prisoner Abbas Hassan Ali at Jau Prison this morning Eyewitness reported a delay of up to 1 hour 20 minutes before Abbas was transferred to h... 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
(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
EU Signs Agreement With Bahrain as Country Marks 10th year since Arab Spring Uprising 10 February 2020 – The European Union’s High Representative Josep Borrell and Bahrain’s For... Read more