Tour de France Urged Not to “Sportswash” Bahrain’s Human Rights Abuses
3 July 2019 – Last week, a coalition of unions, NGOs and sporting organisations presented a letter to the president of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI),
3 July 2019 – Last week, a coalition of unions, NGOs and sporting organisations presented a letter to the president of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI),
19 June 2019 – Yesterday, sixteen cross-party MPs and Peers, including Caroline Lucas, Layla Moran, Diana Johnson and Sir Peter Bottomley delivered a letter to
12 June 2019 – Political prisoner Ali Al-Hajee issued a statement last week from Jau Prison describing the grave deterioration of prison conditions and the
7 June 2019 – Social media giant Twitter joined civil society in expressing its concern for the Bahraini government’s recent declaration that it will crack
7 June 2019 – The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) diminished the human rights deterioration in Bahrain in its 2018 report on human rights and
30 May 2019 – Today, 13 rights groups wrote to King Hamad bin Isa AlKhalifa to urge him to commute the death sentences of torture
16 Cross-party MPs wrote a letter to the foreign secretary Head of Jau Prison visited the UK last month – the trip was paid
21 May 2019 – Today, five UN experts appealed to Bahrain to halt the execution of two men, Ali Al-Arab and Ahmed Al-Malali, amid “serious
King Hamad of Bahrain is in UK for Royal Windsor Horse Show at invitation of Queen Elizabeth Activist Ali Mushaima launches sit-in protest outside
7 May 2019 – Yesterday, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation rejected the final appeal of Ali AlArab and Ahmed AlMalali, two men sentenced to death in