Author Archives: abbas
GCHR: Bahrain: Zainab Al-Khawaja forced to leave her country or risk indefinite detention
On 06 June 2016, human rights defender Zainab Al-Khawaja and her two children, Jude and... more
Bahrain’s Dry Dock Detention Center: Mass and Indiscriminate Punishment
9 June 2016 – The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), together with Americans for... more
Bahrain shatters façade of reform with ruthless persecution of key opposition leader
Nobody saw it coming. In a shocking new blow to freedom of expression last week... more
SIU Interrogated 58 Policemen & Referred 1 to Trial over Beating Prisoner
The Deputy Chairman of Bahrain’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU), Mohammed Khalid Al-Hazza, said that the... more
Open Letter to UN Special Representative of Secretary-General on Violence against Children, on the Occasion of the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
In 2015 alone, BCHR documented 237 cases of minors who have been arbitrarily deprived... more
NGOs support MEPs letter to the EU on urgent cases of Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Moosa in Bahrain
The European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, together with Americans for Democracy and Human... more
UN Torture Expert Says Britain Should Pressure Bahrain To Allow Him To Visit
The UN’s special rapporteur on torture has accused Britain of playing Bahrain’s “game” by funding... more
Bahrain report admits inmates beaten at notorious 'torture' prison
A Bahrain prison torture inspection panel has been accused of having its “head in the... more
UN expert condemns the sentencing of the opposition leader Sheikh Ali al-Salman
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, today condemned the... more
Human Rights First: Bahrain’s Selective Separation of Religion from Politics
Human Rights First has published a post on a law amendment passed by the Bahrain’s parliament... more