UN Reveals Alarming Surge in Reprisals For Human Rights Defenders Cooperating with UN
22 September 2017 – The UN expressed alarm at the increase in human rights defenders facing reprisals for cooperation with the UN in a new
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22 September 2017 – The UN expressed alarm at the increase in human rights defenders facing reprisals for cooperation with the UN in a new
18 September 2017 – Fabricated criminal charges could send a London-based human rights defender’s family members to prison in Bahrain. Their trial today was postponed
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
“Wrong” directions from police yesterday confused protesters peacefully calling for human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s release from jail outside the Bahraini embassy in London. Police
4 September – A Bahraini women’s detention centre banned all detainees from contacting family after an episode of food poisoning, the Bahrain Institute for Rights
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
22 August 2017 – Bahrain’s Fourth Higher Criminal Court today held its first hearing in the mass trial of 60 Bahrainis, including four women, charged
6 August 2017 – The Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s silence on the sentencing of human rights figure Nabeel Rajab in Bahrain has been called “appalling”
Ebtisam Al-Sayegh was spotted injured in Isa Town Women’s Prison early on 4 July – where inmates were barred from leaving their cells to prevent
UPDATE: 3 July 2017 – Following today’s hearing, which Nabeel Rajab’s lawyers continued to boycott, the court moved set Rajab’s sentencing to Monday 10 July.