To the King of Bahrain: You Are a Murderer
Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): During the events of the 1990s and during one of the stages of the uprising in Bahrain, the Bahraini citizens shockingly witnessed military tanks, perhaps for the first...
View ArticleA triple execution in Bahrain has provoked national outrage - and...
In the middle of the night, on January 15 2017, three citizens of Bahrain were executed by firing squad. Abbas al-Samea, 27, Ali al-Singace, 21, and Sami Mushaima 42, had all been found guilty of...
View ArticleBahrain: 2 Face Execution Despite Torture Allegations
Two Bahrainis appear to be at imminent risk of execution despite the authorities’ failure to properly investigate their allegations of torture, Human Rights Watch said today. Both Mohamed Ramadan and...
View ArticlePrisoners Wait for Bahrain King to Decide if They Live or Die
It’s up to Bahrain’s king now, if and when prisoners Mohamed Ramadhan and Hussain Ali Moosa will be executed. All legal procedures have been exhausted, and the king has to decide whether to commute...
View ArticleUrgent appeal to the Government of Bahrain to stop new executions – UN rights...
GENEVA (25 January 2017) – Two United Nations human rights experts have appealed today to the Government of Bahrain to spare the lives of Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Moosa, who are at risk of imminent...
View ArticleUK funds parliament of Bahrain as it halts reforms and backs executions
The British government is using a multi-million pound aid programme to fund Bahrain's parliament while the Gulf country bans opposition parties, reverses human rights reforms and carries out...
View ArticleTorturing Detainees in Jaw Prison Continues since Jan. 15 under Supervision...
Bahrain Mirror- Exclusive: Information from Jaw Central Prison revealed that there is significant deterioration in political prisoners' conditions, especially in building number 10 in which some of its...
View ArticleBCHR: Incommunicado Detention of 12 Detainees Increases Risk of Torture
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said it is deeply concerned about the recent alarming increase in the use of incommunicado detention by the Bahraini authorities.In a statement issued on its...
View ArticleHuman Rights Council should take action on Bahrain, the Philippines, and Turkey
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned about the many serious human rights situations on which this Council has failed to take any meaningful action:The situation in Bahrain deteriorated further in the...
View ArticleHRC34: Denmark directs Human Rights Council’s attention to human rights...
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 34th SessionItem 4: General Debate Statement by DenmarkThank you, Mr. President Denmark fully aligns itself with the EU statement. We are deeply concerned with the...
View ArticleHRC 34: Swiss Intervention, General debate (item 4)
On 14 March at the 34th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland issued a statement on human rights issues in Bahrain, Vietnam, Colombia, Egypt and South Sudan. In the section about...
View ArticleBahrain mourners clash with police after Shia inmate's funeral
Shia protesters and police clashed in Bahrain on Friday following the funeral of a prisoner who died while serving a 15-year sentence for taking part in anti-regime demonstrations, witnesses said.The...
View ArticleHow a spate of killings in Bahrain has raised suspicions of state brutality
In modern Bahrain, the truth behind violent deaths is hard to establish. And the fact that they are largely ignored by the international media means you may well be reading about the following events...
View ArticleBahrain’s Image Hurt by Prison Reality
Jailed in 1849 for four years for discussing peaceful political reform by a tsarist elite fearful of change, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevksy said “The degree of civilization in a society can be...
View ArticleDanish Minister Answers Questions About al-Khawaja
In a consultation with the Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday 24. March members of the committee asked Anders Samuelsen, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Denmark questions about the case of Abdulhadi...
View ArticleUrgent Action Victory! Activist Dr. Ali Esa Mansoor Al-Ekri Released...
On 10 March, Dr Ali Esa Mansoor al-Ekri (Dr Ali al-Ekri), a Bahraini consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon was released from Jaw Prison, south of the capitol Manama. He had served a five-year jail...
View ArticleOpen letter to the CAT - Bahrain: Time to Address Systematic Torture
Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), together with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)...
View ArticleOpen Letter to UN Committee against Torture
BAHRAIN : time to address systematic torture OPEN LETTER to the CAT Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) Gulf Center for Human...
View ArticleSuppressing Dissent and Sustaining Impunity - Torture in Bahrain 2015-2016
In light of Bahrain’s upcoming review by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) has produced a shadow report demonstrating Bahrain’s continued use of...
View ArticleReview by UN Torture Committee Puts Bahrain Abuses Under Spotlight right...
The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) concluded its review of Bahrain on 24 April. UN panel says allegations of torture submitted by NGOs are credible and that torture remains widespread in Bahraini...
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