Event Summary – Failure to Reform: 5 Years of Dissent in Bahrain
11th February – Last night in the House of Commons, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) in cooperation with Reprieve, Index on Censorship
11th February – Last night in the House of Commons, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) in cooperation with Reprieve, Index on Censorship

8 February 2016 – In the five years since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising, which began on 14 February 2011, the stripping of citizenship has emerged

On the 5th anniversary of the 2011 Bahrain uprising, reform has stalled and human rights abuses have continued to be systemic and widespread. With the

On 3 February 2016, a Bahraini court upheld photographer Ahmed al-Fardan’s three-month prison sentence on charges of “attempting” to protest. We condemn the Bahraini authorities’

في تاريخ 25 يناير 2016، أعلنت النيابة العامة البحرينية أن القضاء أصدر أحكاماً بالسجن لمدة 15 سنة إضافية على 57 شخصاً بسبب مزاعم تورطهم في

London – On Monday, 25 January 2016, Bahrain’s public prosecutor announced that a court had sentenced 57 men to additional 15-year jail terms for their

(Read as PDF) (اضغط الرابط لقرائة النص باللغة العربية) 21 January 2016 Your Majesty, We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the Bahraini authorities to lift

21 January 2016 – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) today wrote to FIFA’s eight leading sponsors raising serious concern regarding Sheikh Salman