Bahrain

A number of detainees in the Bahraini Dry Dock Prison announced the start of an open hunger strike, after the outbreak of the new Coronavirus among prisoners and detainees, and to protest against ill-treatment.Sources indicated that the detainees in “ward…

Reprieve, the anti-death penalty organization, launched an electronic petition calling for a moratorium on executions issued in Bahrain against activists whose confessions were extracted under torture.The organization noted the escalation of executions in Bahrain, pointing out that since 2012, all…

Three MPs of the Irish Parliament have questioned Foreign Minister Simon Coveney about human rights violations in Bahrain.Representatives Neil Collins, Joan Collins, and Michael Creed inquired of Coveney about the efforts being made by his government to release the 70-year-old…

Ten years after Bahrain’s popular uprising, systemic injustice has intensified and political repression targeting dissidents, human rights defenders, clerics and independent civil society have effectively shut any space for the peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression or…

The Bahraini forces launched a massive campaign of arrests on the town of Sanabis, which resulted in dozens of house raids and the arrest of at least 14 citizens, without knowing the reasons for the campaign.Pictures posted on social media…

The Bahraini courts issued a series of unfair rulings against a number of Bahrainis, some of which amount to life imprisonment.According to Bahraini sources, the regime’s courts have sentenced Sheikh Hussein Al-Qafoud to life imprisonment for a malicious case, and…

A protest was organized in a Bahraini town on the fourth anniversary of the Bahraini regime’s execution of three young men.The protestors raised banners and shouted slogans denouncing the regime and the injustice it committed against the youth, indicating the…

The Asia Pacific Group announced the nomination of a prominent Fiji diplomat and human rights activist, Nozha Shamim Khan.This announcement comes after frenzied efforts by the Bahraini authorities recently to urge Russia, China and India to support their candidate for…

Amnesty International published a disastrous report on the human rights situation in Bahrain, the confiscation of freedoms and the situation of detainees inside the prisons of Hamad bin Isa, who appears to be following the example of the Saudi Crown…

The family of political prisoner Sheikh Zuhair Ashour has complained that they haven’t heard any news about him since July last year.Sheikh Zuhair Ashour faces an unknown fate as he was subjected to enforced disappearance.Ashour and others were placed in…