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Ali Mushaima was hospitalised on the 30th day of his hunger strike outside the Bahrain Embassy in London to protest the ongoing mistreatment of his father, political prisoner Hassan Mushaima... Read more
Paris-Geneva-Manama, 29 August 2018 – For the second time since 2013, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an Opinion regarding the legality of the... Read more
20 August 2018 – A group of 10 human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), have jointly issued a statement of... Read more
Geneva, Switzerland – 15 August 2018: The United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued a formal decision declaring Bahrain’s imprisonment of human rights defende... Read more
London – 12 August 18, Last night at 1.50am an unidentified member of the Bahrain Embassy in London threw a foamy liquid from the Ambassador’s balcony down onto a political oppon... Read more
9 August 2018, London based Bahraini activist, Ali Mushaima, is on the second week of his hunger strike, which began on the 1st of August, to help save his father, Hassan Mushaima, 70 year-o... Read more
On 1 August, Ali Mushaima, the son of Bahraini political leader Hassan Mushaima (70), started a hunger strike outside the Bahraini Embassy in London to protest the prison conditions his fath... Read more
13 July 2018 – On 5 July, Bahraini female political prisoner, Hajer Mansoor, was subjected to further threats and reprisals by Major Maryam Albardoli, the head of Isa Town Prison Centr... Read more
9 July 2018 - Today, Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, arrived in London to receive medical treatment. He landed at 3:31pm at Heathrow Airport from Bahrain I... Read more
25 June 2018 - Today, Bahrain’s Fourth Criminal Court handed down three-year sentence to female political activist, Najah Ahmed Yousif, on politically motivated charges. Judge Ali Aldhahrani... Read more
