Bahrain: Renewed Detention of Outspoken Activist as Prison Sentences Start to Rain
[caption id="attachment_22318" align="alignleft" width="210"] Zainab Al-Khawaja, Photo BCHR[/caption] The Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights express concern over the renewed More...
Release of Testimony of former BCHR Director Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
Release of Testimony of former BCHR Director Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s speech before the Supreme Court of Appeal 22/5/2012 Gentlemen, President and members of the honorable Supreme Court of More...
Bahrain: The re-arrest of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab
Bahrain: The re-arrest of leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab. 08 June 2012 BCHR On the morning of 6 June 2012, prominent human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab has been re-arrested after he got a summons the More...
Pro-Democracy Demonstrator Ahmed Aoun Must Be Provided Medical Treatment
Pro-Democracy Demonstrator Ahmed Aoun Must Be Provided Medical Treatment (BCHR - Copenhagen) – Mr. Ahmed Aoun is a seventeen year old student and demonstrator in Bahrain who has a metal pellet lodged in his eye More...
First session of Court of Appeal in the case of the 21 political leaders and activists held under tight security procedures
[caption id="attachment_8906" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Judge postpones the hearing until the 22 of May, and prisoners of conscience confirm their innocence and demand to allow them to speak[/caption] 20 More...
Open Letter to His Excellency King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, H.E. Shaik Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Minister of Interior, and H.E. Shaik Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa, Minister of Justice as well as NGO´s in Bahrain..
Open Letter to His Excellency King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, H.E. Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Minister of Interior, and H.E. Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa, Minister of Justice as well as More...
Bahrain: US Presses Ahead with Arms Sale Despite Ongoing Violations
US Presses Ahead with Arms Sale Despite Ongoing Violations No Investigation into Past Misuse of US-origin Helicopters, Armored Vehicles, and Rifles [Manama] On 11 May 2012, the US State Department announced More...
The Case of The Missing Interview with Nabeel Rajab, Head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights
This article should have contained an interview with the Head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab, who was arrested on 7 May, three days before our planned meeting in Manama, Bahrain. Due More...
Bahrain activist says charge over tweets ‘vindictive’
DUBAI — Prominent Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab told a court on Wednesday that a charge that he tweeted insults against the government was "vindictive," as dozens of lawyers turned up to defend him. "The More...
Bahrain activists may be charged for webpostings
[caption id="attachment_1579" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Interior Minister Lieutenant-General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa"][/caption] (AP) MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain is stepping up pressure More...
