Detained women’s rights defenders poisoned and banned from family contact
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
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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.
14 June 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s lawyers and diplomatic observers walked out of the courtroom of his trial-in-absentia today, as his sentencing for speaking to journalists
30 May 2017 – Bahrain’s criminal courts today denied Nabeel Rajab bail and for the eighth time postponed his trial, in which he is prosecuted for speaking to
17 May 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s trial for tweeting about the Saudi-led war in Yemen was today postponed to 14 June, according to his lawyer. Rajab,
16 May 2017 – Bahrain’s criminal courts today denied Nabeel Rajab bail and postponed his trial, in which he is prosecuted for speaking to journalists,