22 June 2017 – Human rights campaigners have told Formula 1 to “reconsider its plans for a 2018 race in Bahrain”, citing a crackdown on press freedoms and police brutality... Read more
13 June 2017 – On the anniversary of Nabeel Rajab’s arrest, Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, Index on Censorship and 12 other NGOs have today written to UN Member and... Read more
8 June 2016 – Bahraini courts sentenced two victims of torture to death on Tuesday amid serious concerns that the judiciary failed to uphold basic fair trial and due process guarantees, desp... Read more
8 June 2017 – Top press freedom organisations and local Bahraini groups are among fifteen rights groups and campaigners who today raised alarm over the suspension of Bahrain’s on... Read more
Today, a coalition of five human rights organizations expressed grave concern over the lack of due process rights and inhumane treatment of Khalil Al-Halwachi, a Bahraini scholar of engineer... Read more
31 May 2017 – Bahraini opposition society Wa’ad has been dissolved today and its property confiscated by court order following proceedings filed by the Bahraini Ministry of Justi... Read more
24 May 2017 – Five were killed yesterday as Bahraini police used tear gas and shotguns to repress a peaceful sit-in around the home of leading Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim in Duraz. Bahrain... Read more
19 May 2017 – Bahrain’s Fourth High Criminal Court will reconvene on Sunday, 21 May, to hold the 13th trial in the case against the country’s most prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa... Read more
16 May 2017 – In recent weeks, the Government of Bahrain has substantially escalated its campaign of reprisals against the country’s civil and political societies. So far in the month of May... Read more
Ahead of the trial of Sheikh Isa Qassim on Sunday 7 May 2017, BIRD and five other NGOs wrote today to the United Kingdom, European Union, United States and United Nations calling for urgent... Read more
