Author Archives: abbas
Bahrain: journalist’s ten-year jail term upheld, two arrested without warrant
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores an appeal court’s decision to uphold freelance press photographer Sayed... more
Ban dismayed at actions aimed at restricting political opposition in Bahrain
16 June 2016 – Concerned at recent reports in Bahrain of intimidation of human rights... more
NGOs call for an end to reprisals against human rights defenders as Nabeel Rajab arrested and Bahraini rights defenders banned from travel to Geneva
As the 32nd Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opened in Geneva on... more
Concern over safety of incommunicado detention victim Shaker Hani
Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses concern over the ongoing incommunicado detention of Shaker Hani... more
Poets suffer arrest and prosecution in Bahrain for exercising their freedom of speech
Bahrain has suffered from a series of stinging attacks on the freedom of artistic... more
Bahraini Opposition Group Al Wefaq Suspended
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today said that the suspension of Bahrain’s main opposition group Al... more
NGOs Strongly Condemn Bahrain’s Government Closure Al-Wefaq
14 June 2016- The Bahraini government today closed Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest political society... more
BCHR at HRC32: Comparing Technical Cooperation Programs in Bahrain
On Tuesday 14 June 2016, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), in... more
Charting the Seas of Abuse: Analysis of United Nations Special Procedure Communications to the Kingdom of Bahrain 2011 – 2016
On 14 February 2011, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Bahrain calling for... more
Bahrain: fresh arrest of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is ‘alarming’
Responding to news that the prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was arrested in Bahrain... more