Category: Press Releases

Bahraini Political Prisoner Urges UK Government to Intervene Ahead of Ministerial Visit to Bahrain

Posted date: February 20, 2019in: Advocacy, Freedom from Torture, International Engagement, Press Releases, Statements, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

19 February 2019 – Jau Prison, Bahrain: Today, Bahraini political prisoner, Ali AlHajee, wrote to Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Minister Alistair Burt ahead of Minister Burt’s... Read more

Bahraini Footballer Hakeem AlAraibi Set to Return to Australia After Extradition Charges Are Dropped

Posted date: February 11, 2019in: Advocacy, FIFA, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, International Engagement, Press Releases, TimeLineNo Comments

11 February 2019 – Bahraini refugee footballer, Hakeem AlAraibi is set to return to his home in Australia tonight after a Thai Court ruled that his extradition case be dropped. The dec... Read more

MPs from All Parties Urge the UK Foreign Secretary to Call for the Release of Leading Bahraini Rights Defender

Posted date: February 08, 2019in: Advocacy, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Nabeel Rajab, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

8 February 2019 – A group of 19 Parliamentarians from all parties have urged the UK Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP to call for the “immediate and unconditional release” of Bah... Read more

BAHRAIN: 7 Convicted to Life Imprisonment and 11 Revoked of their Citizenship Including Female Activist

Posted date: February 07, 2019in: Advocacy, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Press Releases, Revocation of Citizenship, Women DetaineesNo Comments

7 February 2019 – Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court issued prison sentences against 11 individuals, including female political activist Zakeya AlBarboori, and stripped them of their... Read more

Life Sentence of Bahrain’s Opposition Leader Upheld

Posted date: January 28, 2019in: Advocacy, Casework, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Press Releases, Sheikh Ali Salman, TimeLineNo Comments

28 January 2019 – Today, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation upheld the life sentence against the leader of Bahrain’s dissolved opposition party Al-Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, convicted on poli... Read more

Parliamentarians Request “Urgent Intervention” from Foreign Secretary as Bahraini Inmates Exceed 2 Months of Hunger Strike

Posted date: January 23, 2019in: Advocacy, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, International Engagement, Press Releases, TimeLine, UKNo Comments

23 January 2019 – Two Members of Parliament have requested “urgent intervention” from Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the case of two Bahraini political prisoners who are entering the... Read more

Detention of BIRD Director’s Family Members Deemed Illegal and “Acts of Reprisals” by UN

Posted date: January 10, 2019in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Casework, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Opinions, Press Releases, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, TimeLine, UNNo Comments

10 January 2019 – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has formally rebuked Bahrain for taking reprisals against family members of a prominent, London-based,... Read more

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