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5 December 2017 – Today, the 19th hearing of the leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was unexpectedly held significantly earlier than the court had originally decided. The case is rel... Read more
29 November 2017 – A Bahraini criminal court has today sentenced Sayed Nizar Alwadaei, the brother-in-law of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD)’s Director of Advocacy, to... Read more
27 November 2017 – Bahrain’s most senior Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim’s health is at significant risk after six months of house arrest. The religious leader has been effectively under... Read more
22 November 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s sentence to two years in prison for speaking to journalists was upheld this morning by a Bahraini appeals court at the conclusion of a long-running, u... Read more
21 November 2017 – Fifteen rights groups have today written to 11 states and the European Union calling for action ahead of the conclusion of Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Raja... Read more
18 November – The United States Department of State (DoS) yesterday raised its “major concern” over the treatment of the imprisoned relatives of UK-based human rights defender Sayed Ah... Read more
19 November 2017 – Today the 17th hearing of the “Twitter” trial of Bahrain’s most prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was adjourned to 31 December for a technical repor... Read more
BAHRAIN: Government Charges Imprisoned Opposition Leader Sheikh Ali Salman with Colluding with Qatar
1 November 2017 – The Government of Bahrain has today charged senior political opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman with communicating with Qatar to work against Bahrain’s interes... Read more
Bahraini Appeals Court Upholds Opposition Party Wa’ad Dissolution in Latest Assault on Civil Society
26 October 2017 – A Bahraini appeals court has today upheld the dissolution of Bahraini opposition society Wa’ad and the confiscation of its assets. Wa’ad was dissolved following... Read more
19 October 2017 – Middle East Minister Alistair Burt praised Bahrain in a visit to the Gulf state today, a month after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the country f... Read more
