Hajer Mansoor hospitalised on her third day of hunger strike Madina Ali joined the hunger strike over discrimination treatment Duaa Alwadaei convicted yesterday, Sayed Alwadaei published an... Read more
7 March 2018 – An activist was arrested by the metropolitan police for throwing an egg at Mohamed bin Salman’s (MbS) convoy as he approached 10 Downing Street to meet Theresa May. The... 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
28 September 2017 – The British Government looks set to continue its support for Saudi Arabia’s attempts to block a UN inquiry into the war in Yemen. Yet new Freedom of Information disclosur... Read more
27 September 2017 – Leading Bahraini human rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab’s trial for tweeting on Yemen has been dealt another postponement, in the wake of Saudi Arabia’s threats to st... Read more
22 September 2017 – The UN expressed alarm at the increase in human rights defenders facing reprisals for cooperation with the UN in a new report this week, condemning Bahrain among th... Read more
Open NGO Letter to EU Member States and Institutions Regarding the Export of Surveillance Equipment Following the alarming evidence that EU-made electronic surveillance equipment is still be... Read more
On Friday 12 May 2017, the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) published its concluding observations on Bahrain. This report found that torture remains “widespread” in Bahrain, wh... Read more
23 May 2017 – BIRD and Reprieve jointly submitted evidence to CAT in the form of the report, “Failure of the Bahraini Government to Investigate Torture Allegations in Death Penalty Cas... Read more
12 January 2016 – MPs questioned the credibility of a UK-trained body set up by the Saudi Coalition waging war in Yemen during a debate on Yemen yesterday. The questions come after an... Read more
