Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab Transferred To Jau Prison Despite Medical...
26 October 2017 – Bahraini authorities yesterday transferred human rights defender Nabeel Rajab from a clinic to the notorious Jau Prison despite severe medical risks, subjecting him to humiliating...
View ArticleHigh-Profile Political Leaders and Human Rights Defenders Face Ongoing...
27 October 2017 – We the undersigned organizations condemn Bahrain’s continuing degradation and abuse of a group of high-profile human rights defenders and political leaders. The group, known as the...
View ArticleWomen Prisoners Declare Hunger Strike In Protest of Prison Conditions and...
27 October 2017 – Five political detainees in Bahrain’s Isa Town Women’s Prison entered the fourth day of a hunger strike today in protest of glass barriers in the visitation centre and their harsh and...
View ArticleHajar Mansoor Hassan’s Health Suffers In 4th Day Of Hunger Strike, As 30...
27 October 2017 – The health of Bahrain’s women hunger strikers has deteriorated today as they continue their campaign for better treatment, which has entered its fourth day. Today, Hajar Mansoor...
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UK-Based Rights Activist’s Family Sentenced to 3 Years in Reprisal Case
Hajar Mansoor Hassan and her son Sayed Nizar Alwadaei (both pictured), as well as a cousin, Mahmood Marzooq, were sentenced to three years in prison on trumped up charges today. 30 October 2017 – The...
View ArticleFamily Members of BIRD’s Director of Advocacy Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison...
31 October 2017 – The Bahraini authorities yesterday convicted three innocent family members of exiled human rights defender Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei in a show trial aimed at the suppression of his...
View ArticleNabeel Rajab Appeal to Be Decided On 22 November; Court Refuses to Consider...
8 November 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s appeal against a two-year conviction for “spreading false news” is to conclude on 22 November, after a Bahraini appeals court today ignored the defence’s final...
View ArticleBAHRAIN: Women Political Prisoners Boycott Visitation As Prison U-Turns and...
9 November 2017 – Bahraini women political prisoners boycotted family visits today, after the Isa Town Women’s Prison administration reinstated a glass barrier in the visitation centre that was lifted...
View ArticleBahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s Trial For Tweeting Is Adjourned To New Year’s Eve
19 November 2017 – Today the 17th hearing of the “Twitter” trial of Bahrain’s most prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was adjourned to 31 December for a technical report about the contents of...
View ArticleBahrain: Court Rejects Nabeel Rajab’s Appeal Against Two-Year Prison Sentence...
22 November 2017 – Nabeel Rajab’s sentence to two years in prison for speaking to journalists was upheld this morning by a Bahraini appeals court at the conclusion of a long-running, unfair trial....
View ArticleBAHRAIN: Sheikh Isa Qassim’s Health in Danger After 6-Month House Arrest
27 November 2017 – Bahrain’s most senior Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim’s health is at significant risk after six months of house arrest. The religious leader has been effectively under house arrest...
View ArticleBahrain: Nabeel Rajab’s Trial For Tweeting Unexpectedly Brought Forward, then...
5 December 2017 – Today, the 19th hearing of the leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was unexpectedly held significantly earlier than the court had originally decided. The case is related to...
View ArticleBahrain’s spiritual leader went under surgery
8 December 2017 – Bahrain’s most senior Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim went under surgery this morning following his transfer to Ibn Al-Nafees hospital, as the Bahrain Interfaith and the Bahrain...
View ArticleBahrain Court upheld three years prison sentence against UK-Based Rights...
20 December 2017 – Today a Bahraini Court upheld three years prison sentence against the mother-in-law Hajer Mansoor (49), brother-in-law Sayed Nizar Alwadaei (19) and maternal cousin Mahmood Marzooq...
View ArticleBahrain: Two-Year Conviction Against Nabeel Rajab Upheld, Expecting...
15 January 2018 – Nabeel Rajab’s sentence to 2 years in prison for communicating with journalists was upheld by a Bahraini Court of Cassation this morning. Today’s decision ended the legal remedy of a...
View ArticleAs the EU Calls for Nabeel Rajab’s Release, the UK Faces Growing Pressure to Act
Today, the European Union has reiterated its call for the Bahraini government to release leading Bahraini human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab. In addition, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and...
View ArticleAl Arabiya News fined £120,000 for violating privacy of Bahraini torture...
Al Arabiya News fined £120,000 ($171,556) for violating privacy of Bahraini torture survivor 25 January 2018 – Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya has been fined £120,000 ($171,556) by Ofcom, a British...
View ArticleMaher al-Khabbaz Faces Imminent Execution after Bahraini Court of Cassation...
Maher al-Khabbaz Faces Imminent Execution after Bahraini Court of Cassation Upheld his Death Sentence 30 January 2018 – Yesterday, the Bahraini Court of Cassation upheld Maher al-Khabbaz’s death...
View ArticleBahrain: Parliamentary Pressure Mounts on Boris Johnson to Call for Nabeel...
20 February 2018 – 25 members of the UK Parliament wrote to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson today, urging him to publicly call for the release of leading rights defender Nabeel Rajab and to review the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Nabeel Rajab Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Critical...
21 February 2018 – Today, the Bahrain High Criminal Court sentenced leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab to five years imprisonment for expressing critical comments on social media. Rajab tweeted...
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