6 December 2018 – Tomorrow, Bahraini football player Hakeem AlAraibi will be taken to Bangkok Criminal Court (Ratchadaphisek) as Thai immigration authorities decided to proceed with h... Read more
4 December 2018 – Yesterday morning, a Thai court approved a temporary remand to detain Bahraini football player, Hakeem AlAraibi, for 12 days in Bangkok. AlAraibi has been detained si... Read more
5 September 2017 – The UN today revealed its communications on Bahraini security officials’ arbitrary detention and torture of London-based human rights defender Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei’s... Read more
Julie Gromellon of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) started off the panel mentioning this is one more Council session where the HRC has not taken action despite deteriorating human... Read more
7 October 2016 – ARTICLE 19 and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) welcome the opportunity to contribute to the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of... Read more
The Human Rights Council concluded yesterday 19 September its general debate on Item 4: Human Rights Situations That Require The Council’s Attention. During the debate, speakers raise... Read more
Today, 14 September 2016, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights & Democracy (BIRD... Read more
13 September 2016 – BIRD’s Director of Advocacy, Sayed Alwadaei, today delivered an oral intervention under item 3 on arbitrary detention in Bahrain at the 33rd session of the Hu... Read more
13 June 2016 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today warned that repression “will not eliminate people’s grievances” in his opening statement at the 32nd UN... Read more
UPDATE: 15 June 2016 – Nabeel Rajab appeared before the Public Prosecution yesterday, 14 June. Prosecutors officially charged him with “spreading false news and rumours about the... Read more
