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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 looms. Th... Read more
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 journalists, to 12... Read more
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, who also faced trial yesterday in... Read more
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, to 30 May. Rajab, who was h... Read more
15 May 2017 – Nabeel Rajab faces trials for speaking to journalists and tweeting this week, days after the UN’s top anti-torture experts called for his “release from detent... Read more
10 May 2017 – Bahrain’s High Appeals Court today upheld the death sentence against Maher Abbas Al-Khabbaz. Maher Khabbaz was convicted of premeditated murder of a police officer... Read more
7 May 2017 – The forth high criminal court today postponed the trial of Sheikh Isa Qassim, the most senior Shia cleric in the country, to 21 May. Sheikh Qassim, who was stripped of citizens... Read more
13 April 2017 – Sudan’s president and International Criminal Court (ICC) fugitive Omar Al-Bashir is today in Bahrain meeting with the island’s King Hamad. Bahrain is also h... Read more
10 April 2017 – A Bahraini court today imprisoned the performer Mahdi Sahwan to six months in prison and he is now being transferred to the notorious Jau Prison, his lawyer says. Mahdi... Read more
6 April 2017 – The Formula 1 Grand Prix in Bahrain should be cancelled unless it can uphold its human rights commitments, say human rights NGO’s in a letter made public today. Read the lette... Read more
