Women Prisoners Declare Hunger Strike In Protest of Prison Conditions and Ill-Treatment
27 October 2017 – Five political detainees in Bahrain’s Isa Town Women’s Prison entered the fourth day of a hunger strike today in protest of
27 October 2017 – Five political detainees in Bahrain’s Isa Town Women’s Prison entered the fourth day of a hunger strike today in protest of
27 October 2017 – We the undersigned organizations condemn Bahrain’s continuing degradation and abuse of a group of high-profile human rights defenders and political leaders.
26 October 2017 – Bahraini authorities yesterday transferred human rights defender Nabeel Rajab from a clinic to the notorious Jau Prison despite severe medical risks,
26 October 2017 – Sixteen human rights groups have today written to the United Kingdom, United States and the European Union, as well as Germany, France,
25 October 2017 – Bahrain’s Appeals Court today convened in the second appeals hearing for Nabeel Rajab, who was sentenced to two years in July
10 October 2017 – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) condemns the rise in the use of executions in the Gulf, four decades
3 October 2017 – Female detainees in Bahrain have today declared they will go on an open strike after the authorities built an extra barrier
Ahead of Bahrain’s UPR adoption at the 36th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on 21 September 2017, English PEN has joined fellow NGOs
18 September 2017 – Nabeel Rajab faces a new set of absurd charges after Bahrain’s Public Prosecution charged him for social media posts on Twitter
11 September 2017 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today condemned the Government of Bahrain’s crackdown on civil society and its use of