MPs Call on UK Government to Follow Biden Administration by Blacklisting Israeli NSO Spyware Group
Notes for editors 10 UK MPs have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on the UK government to follow the example of the Biden
The freedom of expression, assembly and association continues to be severely restricted in Bahrain, where human rights defenders, opposition activists and religious leaders face arrest and harassment for speaking out against the government. Both the 2002 Press Law and the 2006 Anti-Terrorism Law, exploiting the law’s broad definition of terrorism, are employed to target the media.
In the country’s most famous freedom of expression case, Nabeel Rajab is charged with criticising the government on social media, for publishing a letter in the New York Times, as well as for criticising the government in a televised interview.
Other high-profile cases of free expression and association include opposition acitivst Ebrahim Sharif, who is charged with “incitement to hatred and contempt of the regime”, Sheikh Ali Salman, who is charged for calling for change of the regime, and Zainab al-Khawaja, who is charged for tearing up a picture of the king.
After the government has partially suspended al-Wasat newspaper, Bahrain’s only independent newspaper, a free media in Bahrain is de facto non existent. Prior government harassment against al-Wasat encompassed intimidation and the prosecution of key staff, one of whom, Karim Kakhrawi, died under torture.
Notes for editors 10 UK MPs have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on the UK government to follow the example of the Biden
14 October 2021 – Protesters gathered outside Bahrain’s embassy in London this afternoon in solidarity with Bahraini academic and political prisoner Dr Abduljalil AlSingace, who
8 October 2021 – The chair of a UK parliamentary group and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) have accused the UK government
Political prisoner Dr Abduljalil AlSingace, who has entered his 42nd day on hunger strike in Bahrain, has now lost 18kg and is complaining of harassment
16 leading human rights groups including Amnesty International, Scholars at Risk and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy have issued a statement calling for
Senior UK MPs call on Dominic Raab to demand Dr Abduljalil AlSingace be released from prison in Bahrain immediately; International NGOs share messages with solidarity
UK government challenged over failure to call for release of jailed political leaders Dr Abduljalil AlSingace and 73-year old Hassan Mushaima, who have been imprisoned
6 July 2021 – Today, a cross-party coalition of 10 MPs, including Father of the House of Commons Sir Peter Bottomley, published a groundbreaking report accusing
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for the immediate release of Bahraini death row inmates Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa. The two
Political prisoner Husain Barakat died of COVID-19 this morning after contracting the virus at Bahrain’s Jau Prison 48-year-old died despite receiving 2 doses of